Marvel’s Blade has been put on hold

The Blade production logo. | Image: Marvel Studios

Though Marvel's been hyping up its new Blade feature for quite some time, the studio's now pumping brakes on the production as it looks for a new director and takes another crack at getting the story just right.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Marvel has shut down production on Blade entirely in Atlanta following former director Bassam Tariq's move to step back from the project last month. While the studio hopes to start production back up early next year after finding a new director, Marvel's also reportedly working to further [develop]" Blade as a whole, suggesting that there's a significant amount of work to be done before the movie can actually get going again. While these sorts of delays tend not to bode well, Blade is in the...

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