Mahershala Ali’s Blade Has Found Its Director

The time of the day walker has come. A new report says Marvel Studios’ Blade reboot, starring Mahershala Ali, has discovered its director in Bassam Tariq. He’ll be becoming a member of screenwriter Stacy Osei-Kuffour to carry the story of the legendary Marvel half-vampire to un-life.

According to Deadline, Tariq was chosen as Blade’s director after a months-long search involving dozens of candidates, which solely ended lately after the ultimate picks gave their pitches for the film’s course. Originally, the plan was to rent a writer-director to helm the challenge, the article states, however in the end Marvel selected to rent Osei-Kuffour as screenwriter and discover a director to work together with her. Tariq is an up-and-coming filmmaker, finest identified for the Riz Ahmed-starring indie movie Mogul Mowgli, and this can be Tariq’s first main studio challenge.

The announcement comes nearly two years to the day after Marvel held its huge Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2019. During that panel, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige revealed the way forward for the Cinematic Universe, together with the shock announcement that Ali can be becoming a member of as Blade, the famed vampire hunter who’s, himself, half-vampire. Since then, updates have been few and much between. Not a lot of a shock, contemplating it’s not set to come back out for a number of years—plus, the pandemic slowed down quite a lot of issues. It wasn’t till February 2021 that we acquired our first little bit of behind-the-scenes information with the hiring of Osei-Kuffour, who labored on HBO’s Watchmen and Hulu’s Pen15. Now that we’ve got a author and a director, the items are in place to inform a brand new model of the vampire saga first performed onscreen by Wesley Snipes.

Blade doesn’t have an anticipated launch date but. The Marvel Cinematic Universe continues in theaters with Black Widow and on tv with Loki, which lately completed its debut season.

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