Blade | Marvel reboot "just unravelled" says erstwhile co-star Mia Goth

Blade | Marvel reboot “just unravelled” says erstwhile co-star Mia Goth

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Mia Goth has talked about being cast in Marvel’s troubled Blade reboot which, she says, “just unravelled” during production. In July, Marvel boss Kevin Feige told reporters that his company’s new take on Blade is still very much alive – even if, at least at the time, it didn’t have a director, a script or ... Blade | Marvel reboot “just unravelled” says erstwhile co-star Mia Goth

Mia Goth has talked about being cast in Marvel’s troubled Blade reboot which, she says, “just unravelled” during production.

In July, Marvel boss Kevin Feige told reporters that his company’s new take on Blade is still very much alive – even if, at least at the time, it didn’t have a director, a script or a release date.

More recently, Mia Goth, who was once due to co-star alongside Mahershala Ali in the vampire-themed comic book adaptation, has talked about her brush with the troubled production – and it sounds as though she’s as confused by its on-again, off-again status as the rest of us.

“I don’t know what’s going on with that,” she said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast (via Deadline). “I think that they want to make it, and it’s such an important film for them that they’re taking their time with it. I really don’t have any information. I don’t know why it’s taken the time that it has, but we will see.”

First announced six years ago, Blade was initially intended to be a period piece, with Ali cast as the titular vampire hunter (himself a half vampire) and Goth reportedly cast as a villainous bloodsucker named Lilith.

Goth didn’t talk specifically about her character in the podcast, but she did describe flying to the production’s base in Atlanta, Georgia and being excited about how the project was going.

“The furthest that it got with me … they flew [me] to Atlanta, and we did a chemistry test between [star] Mahershala [Ali] and I, and we did a costume fitting and a wig fitting, and I was very excited in the direction it was going. It was very cool. And Mahershala had such an interesting take on it, and he was great. And then it just unravelled from there, unfortunately.”

This was most likely in 2022, when Bassim Tariq was attached as director and Stacy Osei-Kuffour was behind the script. At some point, the entire production ground to a halt – after sets and costumes were made, according to reports at the time – and Tariq left. The unused costumes ended up on Ryan Coogler’s own vampire production, Sinners.

“We didn’t feel like, as we often do, you can have a good script and make it a great script through production,” Feige later said of Blade's collapse. “We didn’t feel confident that we could do that on Blade, and we didn’t want to do that to Mahershala and didn’t want to do that to us.”

Feige has said that Blade will now take in the present day, though since that July press conference linked above, things have gone rather quiet again. Mahershala Ali is still in the title role, though the last time he was asked about it, he sounded as nonplussed as Mia Goth did in her podcast interview.