Marvel Announces New Blade Movie starring Mahershala Ali!?

Straight from “The Independent:

Marvel surprised fans at San Diego Comic-Con by revealing it was to reboot the Blade franchise with Mahershala Ali in the lead role.

The news was announced as part of the star-studded panel that saw Marvel Studios reveal every new film it will release up until 2020, including a solo outing for Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow, and a Thor sequel that will promote Natalie Portman from the god of thunder’s romantic interest to a female version of the superhero.

While the solo outing for Blade is yet to be dated, it was named alongside Black Panther 2, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, Captain Marvel 2 and a new version of Fantastic Four as films that were currently in production.

Ali, who won Oscars for Moonlight and Green Book, will play the half human-half vampire and it’ll be the first time he’s been on the big screen since Wesley Snipes film Blade: Trinity in 2004.

I have no words as Ali has grown into one of my favorite actors after portraying Cottonmouth on the now cancelled Luke Cage Netflix series.

A Blade reboot is welcome as while the Superhero genre has grown into a Hollywood sure fire hit the original Blade started the trend of superhero movies being taken seriously in Hollywood. Before Bryan Singer made X-men a trend their was Blade starring Wesley Snipes.

I am pleased!

[Source: The Independent]