Four upcoming Marvel films will be delayed, with two being pushed back by a full year as problems with Blade seemingly create a domino effect.
We’ve known since the turn of the month that Marvel Studio’s Blade is in all sorts of trouble. A film that was already looking like it would struggle to hit its planned release date of November 2023 then lost its director, Bassam Tariq, before pushing back its production schedule. All of that made the notion of Blade hitting its scheduled release date a fanciful notion. And after taking a few weeks to calculate the impact a delay will have on its interconnected series of films, Marvel Studios has acted accordingly.
The upshot here is that four films have been delayed.
Blade has been pushed back from November 2023 to September 2024, hopefully giving the project’s inbound director enough time to get the film made and made well. Along with the Fox X-Men films, Blade is perhaps the only Marvel Studios property that has an existing cinematic legacy which needs to be upheld; should Marvel Studios be seen to fall short of matching the original Wesley Snipes films (well, the first two anyway) in quality, fans will be quick to let them know about it.
Whilst it hasn’t been confirmed, the delay to Blade seems to be behind the other delays too. Thus, we get Deadpool 3 going back from September 2024 to November 2024, Fantastic Four is now pushed back by three months to February 2025, whilst Avengers: Secret Wars is delayed by a whopping six months as well, arriving in May 2026 instead of the originally-planned date of November 2025.
There are still three unannounced films slated for July 25 and November 7, 2025, and February 13, 2026, but no word yet as to what they are (although we’re betting that at least one of them is mutant-related,) or whether they have been affected by this delay. We’ll let you know more as we hear it.
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