{"id":275844,"date":"2026-01-09T11:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/275844\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:44:09","slug":"marvel-cancels-solo-movie-announced-in-2019-with-a-twist-report-comic-book-movies-and-superhero-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/275844\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Cancels Solo Movie Announced in 2019 With a Twist – Report – Comic Book Movies and Superhero Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A long-gestating Marvel Studios film has received a shocking, negative update. According to a familiar industry insider, Mahershala Ali\u2019s Blade<\/strong> movie, which was announced at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019 and experienced significant development issues has reportedly been canceled<\/strong>. However, the insider said that Marvel planned to introduce the character in a team-up film.<\/p>\n

Mahershala Ali\u2019s Blade Solo movie not happening, but Midnight Sons is<\/p>\n

Mahershala Ali\u2019s solo Blade<\/a> movie is reportedly canceled, according to industry insider Jeff Sneider. Sneider told Rocha in the latest episode of The Hot Mic podcast, \u201cBlade is dead,\u201d shocking the latter. <\/p>\n

Rocha, still shocked, asked Sneider if what he said was official, something he heard from \u201csources,\u201d or just \u201ca rumor.\u201dSneider then replied that it was \u201ca rumor.\u201d He then revealed that Ali\u2019s Blade would be introduced in a Midnight Sons movie.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m hearing Blade is dead and that it is a Midnight Sons movie,\u201d he stated. \u201cHe will not be introduced in a solo movie. He\u2019ll be introduced in Midnight Sons.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Midnight Sons movie has not been officially confirmed by Marvel as of writing. However, Marvel has introduced the core members of the team in several projects. Blade himself made a voice cameo in the post-credits scene of 2021\u2019s Eternals, while an alternate version of the character, Blade Knight (voiced by Todd Williams), appeared in Marvel Zombies. <\/p>\n

Doctor Strange was introduced in the eponymous film, released in 2016, and played a major role in Avengers: Infinity War and Spider-Man: No Way Home, while Moon Knight was introduced in his solo Disney+ series, released in 2022. Meanwhile, Werewolf by Night, Man-Thing, and Elsa Bloodstone were introduced in the 2022 special presentation, Werewolf by Night.<\/p>\n

Although fans have not yet seen Ali\u2019s Blade in live-action, they were treated to Wesley Snipes\u2019 surprise return to the role, after having played the character in New Line Cinema\u2019s Blade trilogy (1998-2004), in 2024\u2019s Deadpool & Wolverine. <\/p>\n

As of writing, it\u2019s unclear if Snipes\u2019 vampire hunter will return in future Marvel movies, like Avengers: Secret Wars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A long-gestating Marvel Studios film has received a shocking, negative update. According to a familiar industry insider, Mahershala…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[74971,18,117,2650,19,17,1889,5940,327],"class_list":{"0":"post-275844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-blade","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-entertainment-news","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-marvel","15":"tag-mcu","16":"tag-movies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115864971661846491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}