Disney Drops Blade From 2025 Release Calendar, Adds Predator Movie
For months, it’s been obvious that there was no way that Marvel Studios’ Blade movie was going to make its 2025 release. Now, it’s official: Disney has dropped Blade from its November 7, 2025 premiere date, leaving the reboot without a spot on the Marvel film calendar.
According to Deadline, Disney’s 20th Century Studios already has a movie lined up to take Blade’s place. Predator: Bad Lands will inherit the November 7, 2025 release date, with Prey director Dan Tratechenberg returning to the franchise for its first theatrical film since 2018’s The Predator. Elle Fanning will star in Bad Lands, but plot details about the sequel have yet to be revealed.
As for Blade, Mahershala Ali was announced as the star at Comic-Con 2019. Aside from a quick vocal cameo in Eternals, Ali’s Blade has yet to appear in an actual movie. The reboot film has faced numerous delays, as well as the departures of director Bassam Tariq and his replacement, Yann Demange, earlier this year. Marvel was said to be bringing the revised script out to new directors this past summer, but that doesn’t appear to have happened yet.