Disney removes Blade from 2025 release date, adds three Marvel movies in 2028

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“Blade has been delayed infinitely” is becoming an all-too-familiar headline. Well, it happened again.

In an unsurprising move, Disney has removed Marvel Studios’ Blade from its merchandise calendar. Blade’s theatrical merchandise was scheduled for November 7, 2025. Instead, Predator: Badlands, Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator movie starring Elle Fanning, will now unfastened connected Blade’s former November merchandise date.

It’s been complete 5 years since Mahershala Ali donned a Blade hat astatine nan 2019 San Diego Comic-Con to denote nan vampire hunter’s entranceway into nan MCU. Ali will prima arsenic Eric Brooks, aka Blade, a sword-wielding huntsman pinch vampire powers who is unaffected by sunlight. Ali made a sound cameo arsenic Blade successful Eternals.

Wesley Snipes famously played nan characteristic successful New Line Cinema’s Blade trilogy and Deadpool & Wolverine.

Blade’s production has suffered galore delays and imaginative setbacks. Scheduled to merchandise successful 2023, Marvel pushed Blade to 2024 aft nan first director, Bassam Tariq, exited nan task successful September 2022. Yann Demange replaced Tariq successful November 2022. After nan strikes delayed Blade to 2025, Demange exited nan movie successful June 2024. Eric Pearson is rewriting Blade after Stacy Osei-Kuffour, Michael Starrbury, Nic Pizzolatto, and Michael Green contributed to nan script. Blade has not started filming, nor does it person a director.

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Besides the Blade release day shift, Disney added 3 Marvel projects to its 2028 merchandise calendar. The dates are February 18, 2028; May 5, 2028; and November 10, 2028.

Marvel has 3 movies scheduled for merchandise successful 2025: Captain America: Brave New World on February 14, 2025; Thunderbolts* on May 2, 2025; and The Fantastic Four: First Steps on July 25, 2025. After Fantastic Four, only 2 Marvel movies person confirmed merchandise dates. They see Avengers: Doomsday on May 1, 2026, and Avengers: Secret Wars on May 7, 2027.

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