Mia Goth Got as Far as Trying on a 1920s Wig for Marvel's Blade, Before the Project 'Just Unraveled'

Marvel got arsenic acold arsenic giving Mia Goth a wig to deterioration for its 1920s Blade movie idea, earlier the mounting was scrapped and the task was placed connected hiatus.

It's not the archetypal clip we've heard conscionable however adjacent Marvel's large Blade reboot, acceptable to prima Mahershala Ali successful the rubric role, got to being made respective years ago, but it is yet different proposition that immoderate happened to cancel the 1920s-set effort happened precise precocious successful the process.

"The furthest that it got with maine was... I flew to Atlanta and did a chemistry trial with Mahershala," Goth said, speaking connected the Josh Horowitz podcast. "I did a costume fitting and a wig fitting. I was precise excited successful the absorption it was going and Mahershala had specified an absorbing instrumentality connected it, helium was great. And it conscionable unravelled from there, unfortunately."

Mia Goth. Image credit: John Nacion/Variety via Getty.

For its part, Marvel has said it inactive plans to marque a Blade movie eventually, with Mahershala Ali successful the rubric role, and Goth inactive attached. But the workplace has besides confirmed the movie's communicative would present beryllium acceptable successful the contiguous day, if and erstwhile the task really does spell backmost into production.

"I don't cognize what's going connected with that," Goth said erstwhile asked astir Marvel's plans for Blade going forward. "I deliberation that they privation to marque it, and it's specified an important movie for them that they're taking their clip with it. I truly don't person immoderate information, I don't cognize wherefore it's taken the clip it has. But we volition see... we volition see."

Alongside Mia Goth's wig, fans cognize that a afloat wardrobe of apparel was made for the film's supporting artists, which were yet sold on. Bizarrely, these ended up being utilized successful different play vampire movie, Ryan Coogler's acclaimed Sinners.

Marvel announced it was making Blade backmost successful 2019, and confirmed that Mahershala Ali would diagnostic arsenic a caller mentation of its infamous vampire hunter, antecedently played by Wesley Snipes. But, much than six years later, the task is inactive obscurity adjacent filming, and there's a consciousness that Marvel is simply engaged with other, bigger projects.

Following a mixed effect to its astir caller Multiverse Saga, Marvel is present focused connected a bid of sure-fire hits for the adjacent fewer years, including 2 Avengers movies positive caller outings for harmless blockbuster fare specified arsenic Spider-Man and X-Men.

Exactly wherefore Blade fell isolated astatine specified a precocious signifier has ne'er been publically stated, though it was reported that manager Yann Demange near the task successful June 2024, respective months earlier Marvel yet pulled the movie from its merchandise schedule.

"We've landed connected modern day," Marvel Studios brag Kevin Feige said successful an interrogation this summer, acknowledging that Blade's publication had truthful acold gone done "three oregon four" antithetic incarnations, 2 of which were play pieces. "We didn't consciousness like, arsenic we often do, you tin person a bully publication and marque it a large publication done production," Feige continued, discussing wherefore the task had been pushed back. "We didn't consciousness assured that we could bash that connected Blade, and we didn't privation to bash that to Mahershala and didn't privation to bash that to us."

Meanwhile, Wesley Snipes reprised his relation for a cameo successful past year's Deadpool & Wolverine. Deadpool histrion Ryan Reynolds has said helium wants Snipes' classical Marvel movie leader to get a send-off movie akin to Hugh Jackman's Logan.

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