Blade’s MCU Movie Delays Had 1 Positive for Marvel

The Blade movie’s delays resulted in one positive addition to the MCU.

Marvel has been trying to get a Blade movie off the ground for several years. The project was initially announced in 2019, at which time it was also revealed that Mahershala Ali had been cast as the titular character. While Ali had an uncredited voice cameo in Eternals, the movie has not yet come to fruition and does not have a release date at this time.

While there’s currently no telling if Blade will ever see the light of day, the delays did have a positive impact on the forthcoming Marvel Zombies show.

How do Blade’s delays impact Marvel Zombies?

Marvel Television’s Brad Winderbaum told ComicBook that, if it hadn’t been for Blade’s delays, the brand-new Blade Knight character wouldn’t be appearing in Marvel Zombies.

“We felt like Blade was gonna be really exciting to put on screen, and we never thought that we would come out before the live-action Blade,” he said. “It was always designed to be after. But we knew that we’d be in concurrent development. Sometimes when you’re chasing live-action like that, if they pivot, and you don’t pivot in the same way, you get stuck because animation needs a lot more lead time.”

Blade Knight is an Eric Brooks variant who, in addition to being a human-vampire hybrid, also happens to be a Fist of Khonshu. In traditional Marvel Comics lore, that title primarily belongs to Moon Knight, who was previously played by Oscar Isaac in the MCU.

“Making him the Fist of Konshu freed us up in a lot of ways, because he became now a new character with lore that we were creating for him, which let us kind of be more free and less tethered to the live action plans,” Winderbaum said.

Marvel Studios’ Marvel Zombies premieres on Disney+ on September 24, 2025.

Originally reported by Brandon Schreur at SuperHeroHype.

Source: Comingsoon.net