The Daywalker will have to wait a bit longer to have his time in the sun. Marvel Studios has removed its reboot of “Blade” - starring Mahershala Ali as the titular half-vampire - from the release calendar.

Marvel Studios has removed Blade from its 2025 release calendar. In July 2019, Marvel’s Kevin Feige officially announced that Mahershala Ali would star in a reboot of Blade. The MCU project has faced numerous hurdles since then,

Blade was on the schedule for a theatrical bow on Nov. 7, 2025, but filming still hasn't begun, which already made it seem unlikely that the movie would achieve that goal. Now, Predator: Badlands, the new Predator film starring Elle Fanning, will take its release slot next year.