Wesley Snipes Pokes Fun At ‘Blade’ Mahershala Ali Reboot Delays: “Daywalkers Make It Look Easy”
deadline.comAs the Blade reboot hits another roadblock, fans aren’t the only ones wondering if the movie will ever see the light of day.
More than 25 years after starring in the original, Wesley Snipes took to social media this weekend to react to news that director Yann Demange has exited the MCU entry, which is set to star Mahershala Ali as the titular human/vampire hybrid. “Blade, lordylordylordy folks still lookin for the secret sauce, ridin snowmobiles in traffic, kinda rough,” Snipes wrote Saturday on X (formerly Twitter). “Daywalkers make it look easy, don’t they?” He originated the onscreen role in 1998’s Blade, before returning for Blade II (2002) and Blade: Trinity (2004).
Rapper Sticky Fingaz also played the character in a short-lived 2006 Spike series adaptation. Blade was first introduced in a 1973 issue of Marvel’s The Tomb of Dracula.
Snipes’ post comes after sources told Deadline on Friday that Demange amicably departed the upcoming Marvel Studios reboot, which will likely result in further delays for the production and its November 7, 2025 premiere date.
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