Marvel Studios has reportedly put together a plan for Blade that calls for the movie to get a new script over the summer, which will then go out to directors.
The Mahershala Ali-starring vampire thriller fell deeper into the pits of development hell after it recently lost its second director, Yann Demange, but a new report from THR suggests Marvel is now looking to get the seemingly ill-fated project back on track by taking another stab at the script before finding a new director.
According to the report, Marvel has enlisted Eric Pearson to help scribe the new script for Blade. Pearson's past writing credits include working on the screenplays for the MCU's Thor: Ragnarok and Black Widow and, more recently, Thunderbolts* and The Fantastic Four, which the outlet claims "pleased the studio."
The Blade script has already gone through multiple rewrites, with different storylines and time periods used in various drafts. THR reports that the version aiming to shoot last year "was set in the 1920s, according to sources, and featured Mia Goth as a vampire villain named Lilith who wanted the blood of Blade's daughter."
Goth is still attached to star in the project alongside Ali's titular vampire hunter. However, Ali reportedly became "very frustrated" with the movie's progress when Bassam Tariq vacated the director's chair, prompting the production to come to a grinding halt, but this ended up being only the first in a series of setbacks.
There is no word yet on whether Marvel will bump Blade from its November 7, 2025 release date (where it landed after a reshuffle) amid the search for another director.
Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on X/Twitter here.
