Marvel's Blade has faced numerous setbacks and delays, but Mia Goth has assured fans that "care" is being taken to "make a great movie."
Speaking to Deadline on the red carpet for her latest A24 movie MaXXXine, Goth touched on the ongoing chaos surrounding Marvel's troubled Blade reboot, insisting that the team working on it "really care, they do. They want to make a great movie. That's the sense that I get from them, and that feels good."
Goth, who is well known for her widely acclaimed performances in Ti West's horror movies Pearl and X, joined the cast of Blade in April 2023. The script aiming to shoot last year reportedly had Goth playing a vampire villain named Lilith who wanted the blood of Blade's daughter, but the movie is due to get a new script this summer.
Marvel mainstay Eric Pearson is said to be handling the latest iteration of the story, which will go out to directors in the hopes of finding someone to take the helm after the project previously lost Bassam Tariq and, more recently, Yann Demange, on top of the delays caused by the Hollywood writers' strike last year.
Wesley Snipes, who starred in the titular role in the original 1998 movie and its two sequels, recently poked fun at the behind-the-scenes drama and production delays. "Blade, lordylordylordy," he said. "Folks still lookin for the secret sauce, ridin snowmobiles in traffic, kinda rough. Daywalkers make it look easy, don't they?"
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.
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