Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige opens up about the constant struggles plaguing the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s long-delayed Blade reboot. During a roundtable discussion with various media outlets, Feige touched on Blade and addressed why it’s taken so long for the project to come to fruition. After confirming star Mahershala Ali is still attached to the film, Feige joked the holdup was Ryan Coogler’s Sinners making use of period costumes originally designed for Blade. Shifting gears, Feige was very candid about Marvel oversaturating the marketplace with new projects and the negative impact that had on the franchise. He also explained he wants the Blade story to go above and beyond the general premise.
“We had spent 12 years working on the Infinity Saga, saying, ‘That’s never going to happen to us,’” Feige said (via Variety) about the MCU over-extending itself with a bevy of films and TV shows. “We always had more characters that people were asking about than we could possibly make, because we weren’t going to make a movie a month — that’s crazy. Suddenly there’s a mandate to make more, and we go, ‘Well, we do have more’ … But maybe that’s what we fell into.”
Regarding Blade specifically, Feige emphasized how important it is to get the script right. “We didn’t want to simply just put a leather outfit on him and have him start killing vampires. It had to be unique,” he said. “It fell into the time when we started pulling back and saying, ‘Only accept insanely great.’ And it wasn’t ‘insanely great’ at the time.”
MCU fans are quite familiar with the saga of the Blade reboot. After being announced with much enthusiasm at San Diego Comic-Con 2019, the film has cycled through numerous writers and directors, and has