{"id":127995,"date":"2025-09-02T20:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/127995\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T20:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:04:07","slug":"blade-finally-enters-mcu-in-marvel-zombies-trailer-but-its-not-mahershala-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/127995\/","title":{"rendered":"Blade finally enters MCU in ‘Marvel Zombies’ trailer \u2014 but it’s not Mahershala Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blade<\/a> has arrived, though it might not be the Blade you’re expecting.\n<\/p>\n

The beloved Daywalker vampire hunter officially gets his MCU<\/a> debut with the new trailer for Marvel Zombies, the TV-MA-rated animated series coming to Disney+ this Sep. 24. However, despite Mahershala Ali<\/a>‘s casting as the character in the franchise, this Blade isn’t voiced by the Oscar winner.\n<\/p>\n

Todd Williams from All Rise and San Andreas voices the character named Blade Knight, Entertainment Weekly has learned, though the figure maintains a likeness to Ali. You can hear a snippet of Williams in the role as Blade Knight prepares for the arrival of Zombie Namor.\n<\/p>\n

Todd Williams voices Blade Knight on ‘Marvel Zombies’.<\/p>\n

Marvel Animation<\/p>\n

Ali was originally announced as Blade at San Diego Comic-Con 2019, but the planned movie faced countless delays as various creative voices bounced on and off the project.\n<\/p>\n

During a July group interview with various press<\/a> around the release of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige<\/a> confirmed, “Mahershala is still attached,” but cited Marvel’s “over-expansion” plans for the delay on his movie.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t want to simply just put a leather outfit on him and have him start killing vampires. It had to be unique,\u201d Feige said at the time. \u201cIt fell into the time when we started pulling back and saying, \u2018Only accept insanely great.\u2019 And it wasn\u2019t \u2018insanely great\u2019 at the time. We didn\u2019t feel like, as we often do, you can have a good script and make it a great script through production. We didn\u2019t feel confident that we could do that on \u2018Blade,\u2019 and we didn\u2019t want to do that to Mahershala and didn\u2019t want to do that to us.”\n<\/p>\n

Blade Knight (Todd Williams) battles the undead on ‘Marvel Zombies’.<\/p>\n

Marvel Animation<\/p>\n

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At the very least, we’re getting Williams’ Blade here in Marvel Zombies, which will drop as a four-episode TV event on Disney+. Bryan Andrews and Zeb Wells created this latest offshoot, which follows the animated Eyes of Wakanda.\n<\/p>\n

“After the Avengers are overtaken by a zombie plague, a desperate group of survivors discover the key to bringing an end to the super-powered undead, racing across a dystopian landscape and risking life and limb to save their world,” the official description reads.\n<\/p>\n

Williams joins a voice cast roster that includes Marvel alums Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Tessa Thompson, Simu Liu, Awkwafina, Hailee Steinfeld, Wyatt Russell, Randall Park, Iman Vellani, and Dominique Thorne.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Watch the Marvel Zombies trailer above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blade has arrived, though it might not be the Blade you’re expecting. The beloved Daywalker vampire hunter officially…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-127995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}