It’s been nearly six years since Mahershala Ali stepped out onstage during Marvel Studios‘ Hall H presentation at San Diego Comic-Con, where producer Kevin Feige announced that the two-time Oscar-winning actor would be playing the vampire slayer Blade, rebooting the character first originated on-screen by Wesley Snipes and adding him into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Since then, the project has dropped numerous directors, lost cast members and faced several delays.
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But even through all that turbulent development, Ali tells Variety he’s keen to start filming on “Blade.”
“Call Marvel,” Ali said at the New York premiere of his new film “Jurassic
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