Delroy Lindo is Set To Star in Marvel's BLADE
Delroy Lindo (Da Five Bloods, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Harder They Fall) is joining Marvel Studios’ Blade film. The actor will join Mahershala Ali, who as you know, is taking on the title role. Lindo is a great actor and it’s awesome that he going to be making his MCU debut!
The dark vampire action adventure Marvel movie is being directed by Bassam Tariq (Mogul Mowgli) with Watchmen writer Stacy Osei-Kuffour, who is working on the script.
Harley any details have been shared for this movie, but fans are super excited about it and the project is set to begin shooting in late summer 2022.
When previously discussing the film, Tariq shared his excitement for it, saying:
"What I will say it's like, it's not that I felt it was, I didn't think that this was gonna happen. You know what I mean? Just to be very honest, I'm honored, and it's a privilege. I'm here in service of Staci Osei-Kuffour, who is the incredible writer that's writing the film. She wrote on Watchmen, she wrote also Pen15 and Power and The Morning Show, she's just a phenomenal presence and a juggernaut in her own right, and Mahershala. For me, it's really working in their service, and I think that's how I'm trying to take it day by day because, to think of anything more is tough."
Tariq went on to talk about how Marvel takes "big swings for a big studio," and goes on to say, “I can't say anything about it, but I'm so excited about what we're doing, like I'm so excited ... and I can't wait." The filmmaker went on to talk about the Blade character, saying:
"What I can tease about it is that we care about character, it's very important for me, and character is something that ... I don't think of genre, I think of character, and where our character has to go is gonna be really important."
He later discussed how there’s no real Blade canon that he feels he needs to follow, saying:
"What's so great is it's not as boxed in as I think people imagine it to be, which I thought it was. But it's quite exciting. And I think the reality is there’s no Blade canon. If you ever read the comics, they're always changing. "Oh it's this story, it's this story.' What's the canon? It's not like Peter Parker. His name is Peter Parker. In some comics, his name is Fred H. Blade, you know, instead of Eric Brooks. So it's an interesting thing. Unfortunately, the runs never lasted that long, and there have been some interesting and exciting waves. But I can say it's character first."
What do you think about Delroy Lindo joining Blade? Who do you think he’ll play in the film because that has yet to be revealed?
Source: THR