Marvel’s Blade director drops out a year before MCU movie’s release

Marvel Studios’ forthcoming Blade Variety reports Tuesday that reboot’s director Bassam Tariq has been fired less than two months prior to production being scheduled to start. The departure could complicate the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s packed schedule, which has Blade premiering Nov. 3, 2023.

Variety received confirmation from Tariq that Tariq was no longer the director. But, trade reports also stated that Tariq still remains the executive producer. “Eager to see where the next director takes the film,” Tariq told Variety.

Blade, a reboot of Wesley Snipes’ vampire-hunting cult hit from 1998, was revealed at San Diego Comic-Con 2019. It is slated to be part of the MCU’s “Phase 5,” announced at SDCC this past July.

This film does not make up the MCU. However, Blade is an important character in the subgenre of super-monsters that Marvel Comics created. There were crossovers and several issues published in 1970s Marvel Comics. The Amazing Spider-Man. The most recent screen adaptation from this line of heroes and villains was March’s poorly received (and non-MCU Sony Pictures adaptation) Morbius.

Marvel Studios is strict about its release schedule, and teases or links up the stories in post credits sequences or films. Tariq is leaving Blade as director delays the movie overall, it could affect other Phase 5 movies, like May 2023’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Oder MarvelsThis event is scheduled for July 28, 2023.

Blade made his first MCU appearance with actor Mahershala Ali’s voice-over in a post-credits sequence for 2021’s EternalsBlade, played by Kit Harington, speaks to Dane Whitman in “The Black Knight”, where he is referred to as The Black Knight.

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