Marvel Studios Has Paused Production On The 'Blade' Reboot, Shifting It And Other Release Dates, Including ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’
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Well, it was bound to happen on the trajectory it was going. After losing its director in Bassam Tariq, production has officially paused on Marvel Studios’ Blade reboot starring Mahershala Ali. The star expressed frustration with how things were going, so now the production has an opportunity to recalibrate and give time to figure everything out, including getting that new director.
With it comes a significant shift to Marvel Studios’ release schedule. Blade moves from November 3, 2023, to September 6, 2024. Readers will probably recognize that as the just-announced date for Deadpool 3. Indeed, that’s moving as well, but a much shorter jump to November 8, 2024, which should also be familiar as the Fantastic Four reboot’s now-former release date. Having only confirmed its director a couple of weeks before Blade’s troubles began and Deadpool 3’s Wolverine announcement was made, it still does not have any announced cast, so this adds time there too. Its new release date is February 14, 2025, which displaces a yet-to-be-announced title that moves to November 7, 2025. That unannounced title moves Avengers: Secret Wars to May 1, 2026, bringing Phase Six into its third calendar year. Avengers The Kang Dynasty is unmoved, which means the fifth and sixth films in the series are spaced similarly to Infinity War and Endgame. Again, it displaces an unannounced film removed from the schedule entirely.
In other Disney movie scheduling moves, the next Hercule Poirot mystery from Kenneth Branagh, A Haunting in Venice, is scheduled for September 15, 2023, and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is set for May 24, 2024. Warner Bros. has also swooped in to move Dune Part 2 up two weeks to Blade’s old spot from its November 17 perch.
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Source(s): Comic Book, Variety