20 Upcoming Movies That Just Got Cancelled

20. Blade

It was way back in July 2019 that Mahershala Ali was confirmed to be playing Blade in a reboot as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and honestly, could you imagine anyone better to take up the Daywalker's mantle from Wesley Snipes?

Though Ali made an off-screen voice cameo as the character in 2021's Eternals, development on Blade's MCU debut was sluggish in the years that followed.

The project cycled through several directors and innumerable writers, which combined with Hollywood strike action and creative tussles between Marvel Studios and Ali, caused its release date to be pushed back multiple times.

In recent years it'd been suggested that Blade may have been quietly cancelled, and this past July MCU producer Kevin Feige and Ali both confirmed that Blade was indeed dead.

With the many tricky projects the MCU has done justice to over the years, it's totally baffling that Feige couldn't get something as simple as an Ali-fronted Blade movie made. What a waste.