🎬 Marvel lost Blade — and Feige is saying so out loud

Announced in July 2019, the Mahershala Ali Blade went through two directors, five-plus writers, and quietly vanished from Marvel's release calendar in fall 2024.

Feige called himself "a gigantic loser and failure" over it. His diagnosis: the Disney+ overexpansion era, when quantity beat quality "for the very first time ever." When standards tightened, Blade didn't make the cut.

Ali still wants the role. Marvel didn't want to just put him in leather. So nobody went anywhere.

Source: Variety