At Comic-Con in San Diego, Marvel unveiled its sweeping post-Avengers: Endgame schedule, including long-anticipated titles like a new Guardians of the Galaxy, a stand-alone Black Widow movie, and another Taika Waititi-directed Thor. But the most surprising news is the reboot of a 20-year-old franchise: Marvel is finally bringing back Blade.
While Wesley Snipes won't be returning for the title role, Oscar-winning star of Moonlight and True Detective Mahershala Ali will star as the half-vampire superhero who decapitates blood-suckers for a living.
Fox's 2000 X-Men film is often cited as the beginning of the comic book movie renaissance, but the 1998 Blade is also iconic, and not just because Snipes starred as one of the first black superheroes in a major movie. The opening blood rave scene alone deserves every technical award you can throw at it.
There's currently no word on the plot or how this will cross over into other Marvel movies, though studio president Kevin Feige said in an interview that Doctor Strange opened the doors for more supernatural elements in the Marvel cinematic universe. Fingers crossed they keep one of the best lines in movie history that Snipes said in the original: "Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill."
