Delroy Lindo Cut from Blade

Last week the original Blade star, Wesley Snipes, trolled Marvel after it was announced that the new Blade movie starring Mahershala Ali had been pushed back until 2026 after a series of set backs [click here if you missed that].

Now its being reported that actor Delroy Lindo has been let go from the cast...

From The Hollywood Reporter

...Demange’s Blade was batting its wings toward a shoot starting in May 2023 and hired yet another writer, True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto, also an Ali pick, to bring the script over the finish line. But it was all for naught, as the writers strike, then the actors strike, shut the movie down. “People have missed about three windows to shoot other movies or shows,” an agent notes.

But unlike several other Marvel projects that were shut down and then restarted — including Deadpool & Wolverine and Thunderbolts — Blade instead let most of its actors go, Delroy Lindo and Aaron Pierre among them, and went through more writers.