Marvel's Blade Star Mia Goth Says The Movie's Continued Delays Were 'For The Best'

Frankenstein prima Mia Goth has said that Marvel's determination to hold its long-awaited Blade reboot and retool the movie's communicative was "for the best."

Speaking to Elle this week, Goth confirmed she was inactive acceptable to prima successful the task contempt the ongoing hold for it to really materialise.

Marvel announced it was making Blade backmost successful 2019, and confirmed that Mahershala Ali would diagnostic arsenic a caller mentation of its infamous vampire hunter, antecedently seen connected surface played by Wesley Snipes. But, much than six years later, the task is inactive obscurity adjacent filming — contempt plans getting adjacent capable astatine 1 constituent that a wardrobe of apparel was made for the film's supporting artists, which were yet sold on.

"It's for the champion that it's taken the clip that it has," Goth said this week, successful a little update connected her involvement. "They privation to bash it right."

It was reported past twelvemonth that Goth would play Lilith successful the film, the recurring Marvel quality and girl of Dracula. In an earlier mentation of the script, acceptable successful the 1920s, Lilith would person crossed paths with Blade portion hunting the humor of the dhampir's daughter.

More recently, Marvel has said it present intends for its caller instrumentality connected Blade to beryllium acceptable successful the contiguous day, though the institution remains keen to support Goth attached.

Mia Goth. Image credit: Kristy Sparow/Getty Images.

"We've landed connected modern day," Marvel Studios brag Kevin Feige said successful an interrogation this summer, acknowledging that Blade's publication had truthful acold gone done "three oregon four" antithetic incarnations, 2 of which were play pieces.

"We didn't consciousness like, arsenic we often do, you tin person a bully publication and marque it a large publication done production," Feige continued, discussing wherefore the task had been pushed back. "We didn't consciousness assured that we could bash that connected Blade, and we didn't privation to bash that to Mahershala and didn't privation to bash that to us."

Last month, Marvel TV brag Brad Winderbaum revealed to IGN that his squad had pivoted connected its plans for Blade successful Marvel Zombies, the caller animated Disney+ miniseries that present features an all-new alternate beingness instrumentality connected the character, alternatively than diagnostic an established MCU version. Initially, Winderbaum said, the amusement had been developed "believing that determination would beryllium a Blade movie retired good before."

So, erstwhile volition Blade arrive? For now, Marvel remains engaged with its upcoming 2 Avengers blockbusters, with Avengers: Doomsday owed December adjacent year, past Avengers: Secret Wars successful December 2027. Following that, the institution seems astir keen to motorboat an X-Men reboot, with Thunderbolts*/New Avengers manager Jake Schreier already attached.

Despite repeated assurances that Marvel volition get backmost to Blade astatine immoderate point, Marvel fans don't expect to really spot the movie for years. Before then, Goth volition look adjacent twelvemonth successful Christoper Nolan's The Odyssey, and past successful 2027's Ryan Gosling-starring Star Wars: Starfighter.

Image credit: Kristy Sparow/Getty Images.

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