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Has Marvel Studios quietly given up on Blade? The movie's logo designer thinks so
Will we ever see Blade in the MCU? Maybe, but it looks like it might not be Mahershala Ali playing him.
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Hard to believe it has been seven (SEVEN!) years since Mahershala Ali and Kevin Feige stood on stage at San Diego Comic Con and told the world we were getting a new Blade movie in the MCU. In the years since, the film has gained and lost directors and potentially lost its Oscar-winning star. While Marvel Studios hasn’t officially cancelled their Blade film, the person who designed the logo seems to think the movie is as good as dead.
Despite a flurry of attempts to get the movie off the ground, the original logo seems to be all we’re ever going to see from Mahershala Ali as Blade. According to Justin Claus Harder, who designed the logo that was used to announce the MCU Blade film, the movie is officially dead. “RIP BLADE with Mahershala! We hardly knew ye!!” Harder wrote on social media. “Shame they couldn’t get this one off the ground together but it was awesome to see my logo at Hall H in 2019 and still super proud of it!”
Harder later clarified that he is just going off of what Kevin Feige said in a recent Happy Sad Confused interview, where he confirmed that he feels “like a gigantic loser” for not being able to get Mahershala Ali’s Blade film made. Officially, the MCU Blade movie is still in development, but evidence is mounting that it might never get made or it might look very different from what the studio initially promised. Perhaps what they say is true; there's only ever going to be one Blade.
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