Flying Lotus Reveals He Was Writing Music for MCU’s ‘Blade’ Movie Before It Fell Apart

It’s been a while since we’ve gotten any official updates on Marvel’s planned Blade reboot movie, which was originally announced way back in 2019. While Wesley Snipes did reprise his iconic role as New Line’s Daywalker in Deadpool & Wolverine last year, the character’s official introduction to the Marvel Cinematic Universe still seems to be no closer to reality.

It’s no secret that the brand new Blade movie has been bumped all over the release calendar the last several years, and it’s currently without a date at all after getting pulled from its most recent theatrical release date of November 7, 2025. Not helping is that the movie is without a director at the moment, with Yann Demange (“Lovecraft Country”) departing the project in the wake of Bassam Tariq (Mogul Mowgli) exiting the film back in 2022.

Mahershala Ali was attached to play the title character, with Delroy Lindo (Sinners) also on board. But Lindo revealed to Entertainment Weekly earlier this month that the project “went off the rails,” with the actor at this time no longer attached to star alongside Ali.

Another talent that had been attached to Marvel’s Blade? Musician and filmmaker Flying Lotus (Ash), who revealed on Twitter earlier today that he had been set to do the film’s music.

Flying Lotus, whose own feature debut Ash was just released on Digital at home, tweets, “I guess we are so far from it even being a possibility now but. Yeah I was signed on to write music for the new BLADE movie before it fell thru. Maybe it’ll come around again but I doubt it.”