Marvel Studios Confirms When Blade Starts Filming

With the release of this weekend's blockbuster film Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is officially about to be underway. One of the most highly-anticipated entries on that horizon of movies and Disney+ television shows might be the reboot of Blade, which will star Mahershala Ali as a new iteration of the beloved vampire hunter. After multiple release date shifts and a change in director, it sounds like production of the film will finally begin soon. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige revealed that Blade will begin filming "in the next 10 weeks or so."

"It's going well," Feige explained. "Our director Yann [Demange] is down in Atlanta right now. Cameras roll in, like, the next 10 weeks or so."

What is Marvel's Blade reboot about?

Blade will star Ali as Eric Brooks, a half-vampire "Daywalker" who moonlights as a vampire hunter. Delroy Lindo, Aaron Pierre, and Milan Ray have all been cast in currently-unknown roles. The film will follow the thread set up by Marvel's Eternals in 2021, which featured Ali's Blade in an uncredited voice cameo and teased a crossover with Dane Whitman (Kit Harrington).

"[Blade] was [part of the scene] for reasons hopefully that would become apparent as you see more things, but [Mahershal Ali] wasn't there on the day," Eternals producer Nate Moore previously told ComicBook.com's Phase Zero podcast. "And we talked about two versions of that, one where we would cut to him and one where we wouldn't. 'How textual do you want it to be?' And again, it was more just for the fun of it, to tease it a little bit, to hear the voice and not see the man. He was game to do it. Because the Ebony Blade, the characteristics of the Ebony Blade are not dissimilar to some degree to vampirism and we think that's an interesting kind of thing to play with. So, we kind of knew that was on the table."

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Blade is set to be released exclusively in theaters on September 6, 2024.