{"id":857341,"date":"2026-09-23T03:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/857341\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T03:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:46:09","slug":"mahershala-ali-says-blade-reboot-is-kevin-feiges-biggest-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/857341\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahershala Ali Says Blade Reboot Is Kevin Feige’s Biggest Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tKevin Feige<\/a> once said he feels \u201clike a gigantic loser and failure\u201d that Marvel<\/a>\u2018s planned Blade<\/a> reboot never came to life with Mahershala Ali<\/a>; and the two-time Oscar winner agrees.<\/p>\n

\n\tAli confirmed<\/a> in a July interview with GQ that he would not be leading Blade, after being announced<\/a> to star in the project seven years ago at Comic-Con 2019. And now, in a new profile with GQ<\/a>, the actor is reiterating that he doesn\u2019t know why the project never came to fruition. <\/p>\n

\n\tWhen asked why the film didn\u2019t happen, Ali said, \u201cThat\u2019s a Kevin Feige question.\u201d He continued, \u201cThey had, as you said, a two-time Oscar-winning actor under contract and you got billions of dollars. That\u2019s a question for them. I don\u2019t mean anything personal to you, but I don\u2019t know why it didn\u2019t. To this day, I don\u2019t know why it didn\u2019t happen. I just know that it was \u2014 Kevin, he said it was the biggest failure of his career and I agree.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAli referenced comments the Marvel Studios president made during a July appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. Feige said he was \u201cvery excited\u201d they were able to bring in original Blade star Wesley Snipes for an appearance in 2024\u2019s Deadpool & Wolverine, but that he felt \u201clike a gigantic loser and failure that we didn\u2019t get [the Blade reboot] off the ground with Mahershala.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tGQ\u2018s Zach Baron read Feige\u2019s quote back to Ali, and he said he agreed with his sentiment. \u201cI agree with him. I agree with him one hundred percent. One hundred percent. He should feel that way. I agree,\u201d Ali said.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother star further explained that he \u201cspent a year training\u201d for the film, and Marvel kept \u201cpushing it back, pushing it back, pushing.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI trained so hard I blew my knee out. I was just waiting for them,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m still training. I\u2019m training. I\u2019m learning sword work. Name the martial art, I\u2019m training in it. And I literally moved, uprooted my family, moved to Atlanta. We are there waiting to go. And they just keep pushing it back, pushing it back, pushing it. It doesn\u2019t happen. And then it\u2019s a strike.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, Ali said he was \u201cgrateful it didn\u2019t happen because I don\u2019t think we would get this film,\u201d referencing Your Mother, directed by Bassam Tariq, who was attached<\/a> to helm the Blade reboot. Ali reflected on reuniting with the director for the new film during The Hollywood Reporter\u2018s inaugural Game Recognize Game series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFor Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, I got to unite with a director by the name of Bassam Tariq,\u201d he said. \u201cWe were originally supposed to work on Blade together. That didn\u2019t happen, but we were able to use that training and the time we spent together and put it to good use on Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Feige once said he feels \u201clike a gigantic loser and failure\u201d that Marvel\u2018s planned Blade reboot never…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[22121,88,21843,21704,12761,206],"class_list":["post-857341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-blade","tag-entertainment","tag-kevin-feige","tag-mahershala-ali","tag-marvel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857341","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=857341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}