Yann Demange will direct #BLADE, with Michael Starrbury writing the new screenplay.
Mahershala Ali was involved in the writer selection process with the goal of making Blade have a dark and gritty tone, on the edgier side & share similarities with the earlier Blade movies.
Yann Demange says that Blade will have “dignity and integrity, but there is a ferocity there that he usually keeps under the surface. I want to unleash that and put it on the screen.”
“We are going to have fun because Mahershala is such a deep actor. I’m excited to show a kind of ruthlessness, a roughness he has, that allows him to walk the earth in a particular way.”
:Yann Demange on #BLADE
#BLADE will reportedly be darker than most MCU movies.
“True Detective” creator Nic Pizzolatto recently signed on to write on the current screenplay and was writing on it prior to the writers strike.
Delroy Lindo will portray #BLADE foe, Deacon Frost.
In the comics Delroy Lindo infected and gave powers to Eric Brooks (Blade) through feasting on his mother while he was still in the womb making him a half-human/half vampire hybrid.
(Source: DanielRPK)