{"id":905907,"date":"2026-09-22T23:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/905907\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T23:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:40:12","slug":"mahershala-ali-agrees-that-kevin-feige-is-a-gigantic-loser-and-failure-over-failed-blade-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/905907\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahershala Ali Agrees That Kevin Feige Is a ‘Gigantic Loser and Failure’ Over Failed Blade Reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar-winning actor Mahershala Ali wholeheartedly agreed with Kevin Feige\u2019s description of himself as a \u201cgigantic loser and failure\u201d for not getting Marvel Studios\u2019 canceled Blade reboot<\/a> off the ground.<\/p>\n

Feige made the remark<\/a> on an episode of Josh Horowitz\u2019s Happy Sad Confused podcast in late July, where he spoke about how excited he was to have Wesley Snipes reprise the role of Blade on Deadpool & Wolverine \u2014 an emotion that contrasted sharply with his failed attempts at making Ali\u2019s reboot happen.<\/p>\n

It turns out that Ali feels the same way. The actor admitted as much during a September 22 chat with GQ’s Zach Baron<\/a>, who cautiously broached the subject to see how Ali felt about the project now that it\u2019s firmly in his rear view.<\/p>\n

Who Is Blade? Marvel\u2019s Vampire Hunter Explained\"You<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a Kevin Feige question,\u201d he responded when asked why the film never moved forward. \u201cThey had, as you said, a two-time Oscar-winning actor under contract, and you got billions of dollars. \u2026To this day, I don\u2019t know why it didn\u2019t happen. I just know that Kevin said it was the biggest failure of his career, and I agree.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe the quote was, \u2018I feel like a giant loser and a failure,\u2019\u201d Baron suggested.<\/p>\n

\u201cI agree with him, one hundred percent. He should feel that way,\u201d Ali continued.<\/p>\n

Ali\u2019s brutally honest remarks have gone viral online, and it\u2019s not hard to see why; in that same interview, the actor freely admitted that he\u2019d spent a year of his life in physical training to convincingly portray Marvel\u2019s Daywalker, and worked out so hard that he literally blew out his knee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was waiting for them\u2026 [they were] pushing it back, pushing it back. I\u2019m still training, I’m learning swordwork. Name a martial art, I\u2019m training in it. I literally moved, uprooted my family, moved to Atlanta. We were there waiting to go, and they just kept pushing it back,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Ali first met with Marvel all the way back in 2019. It\u2019s been seven years since then, and despite having a story greenlit and costumes made, the film never came to fruition. Some of those costumes were later used<\/a> on the Academy Award-winning movie Sinners<\/a>, while Ali said that much of the combat skills he learned while preparing for Blade were put to use in his newest film, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With Ali no longer attached and a stigma surrounding the failed Blade reboot, it\u2019s looking less likely than ever that we\u2019ll get to see Blade take on a new adventure \u2014 and that really sucks, because Ali was the perfect fit to play the part.<\/p>\n

Image Credits: Gareth Cattermole\/Getty Images for IMDb<\/p>\n

\"Virginia<\/p>\n

Virginia Glaze<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

News Editor<\/p>\n

Virginia (she\/her) is IGN\u2019s News Editor. With ten years of experience reporting on games and entertainment, she\u2019s got a storied background in the fighting game community, influencer news, and viral online trends. Find her on Twitter at @TheeMissGlaze<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar-winning actor Mahershala Ali wholeheartedly agreed with Kevin Feige\u2019s description of himself as a \u201cgigantic loser and failure\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-905907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}