Marvel's BLADE Movie Lands a Director with Bassam Tariq

Marvel Studios’ upcoming vampire movie Blade has taken a big step forward with the hiring of a director. The filmmaker that has been hired for the job is Bassam Tariq, who best known for directing the Riz Ahmed film Mogul Mowgli.

Mahershala Ali is set to play the vampire hunter, and the script for the film is being written by Stacy Osei-Kuffour (Watchmen). Obviously, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige is producing.

Blade is a human-vampire hybrid thanks to his mother being bitten and killed by a blood-sucker during childbirth. The character was created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan, and he made his first appearance in the comic book The Tomb of Dracula #10 in July of 1973.

We don’t have any details to share regarding the film, but vampires are a part of the MCU, and vampires were mentioned in the season finale of Loki.

I’m not familiar with any of Tariq’s work, but Marvel hired him for a reason. He must’ve had a great pitch for the movie. Blade is such a great Marvel character, and I hope that Tariq and the Marvel creative team give fans a great movie.

Source: Deadline