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Marvel Seems To Confirm The 'Blade' Movie Is Truly Dead ⁠85%

By Dais Johnston⁠61%

7/21/2026, 4:43:45 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Confirmation Bias, and Framing Effect, with Pessimism Bias as the most egregious example at 25.6% saturation with 115 hits. Analysis detected 1,020 faulty-reasoning hits from 449 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 76.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠85% (3,354 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 84.70% of the article peer group.

When you’re the head of the biggest film series in the world, things are bound to slip through the cracks. 
Kevin Feige may be the mastermind of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but he’s not an infallible robot, as much as the She-Hulk finale may attempt to convince you otherwise. 
He’s no stranger to overcommitting and announcing projects too early — including his own Star Wars movie, which was quietly shelved. 
But of all of Marvel and Feige’s unrealized projects, one stands above the rest: Blade . 
The MCU remake of the classic vampire movie was initially supposed to star Mahershala Ali, but ever since its big glitzy announcement in 2019, every update has been disappointing. 
Now, it seems the project has finally been put out of its misery, or at least that’s what Kevin Feige is implying. 
During an appearance on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, Feige spoke about his feelings on Blade . 
But instead of being optimistic about the future like in previous updates, he just sounded disappointed. 
“I am feeling like a gigantic loser and failure that we didn’t get off the ground with Mahershala,” he said, while also acknowledging how exciting it was that Wesley Snipes appeared in Deadpool & Wolverine . 
Since Blade was announced in 2019, two directors and a whopping seven screenwriters have been attached to the project. 
Over its various drafts, it’s reportedly been a Prohibition-era period piece, a female-led movie incorporating “life lessons,” and a straightforward movie about slaying vampires. 
But after the second director, Yann Demange, left the project in mid-2024, updates have been sparse, and the release date — already pushed back multiple times — was removed from the calendar altogether. 
Blade was announced back in 2019, but now has apparently had a stake driven through its heart. 
| Albert L. 
Ortega/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images Now Feige’s comments make it sound like the Blade movie is never happening. 
That doesn’t mean the character will never appear in the MCU; in fact, he’s already appeared as “Blade Knight” in Disney+’s animated What If. 
But it certainly sounds like Feige is grieving Mahershala Ali’s version. 
With rumors swirling about a possible Midnight Sons crossover movie featuring Ghost Rider, Moon Knight and, yes, Blade, the character may somehow find a way to live on. 
But Ali’s take on Blade , as a big, solo, spotlight affair like Wesley Snipes made famous in the ‘90s, doesn’t seem like it will happen. 
That must be disappointing for fans to hear, but after years of hope and disappointment, maybe it’s best to finally move on to the “acceptance” stage of the grieving process. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 16.3%Dais Johnston: 4.4%Inverse: 4.0%Confirmation Bias16.3%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.6%Inverse: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 10.9%Dais Johnston: 3.6%Inverse: 3.6%Availability Heuristic10.9%This article: 5.8%Dais Johnston: 1.4%Inverse: 1.5%Representativeness Heuristic5.8%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 2.5%Inverse: 2.3%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 3.6%Inverse: 2.8%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 14.7%Dais Johnston: 5.1%Inverse: 4.7%Framing Effect14.7%This article: 6.7%Dais Johnston: 0.7%Inverse: 0.6%Loss Aversion6.7%This article: 5.3%Dais Johnston: 0.6%Inverse: 0.7%Status Quo Bias5.3%This article: 4.2%Dais Johnston: 0.3%Inverse: 0.5%Sunk Cost Effect4.2%This article: 6.2%Dais Johnston: 5.9%Inverse: 3.8%Optimism Bias6.2%This article: 25.6%Dais Johnston: 1.9%Inverse: 2.1%Pessimism Bias25.6%This article: 7.3%Dais Johnston: 6.5%Inverse: 8.7%Negativity Bias7.3%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.2%Inverse: 0.6%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 6.5%Dais Johnston: 0.9%Inverse: 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error6.5%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.0%Inverse: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.2%Inverse: 0.8%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.1%Inverse: 0.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 6.0%Inverse: 5.4%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.7%Inverse: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.0%Inverse: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 13.8%Dais Johnston: 2.2%Inverse: 1.9%Recency Bias13.8%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 1.0%Inverse: 0.8%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.1%Inverse: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.6%Inverse: 0.4%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.1%Inverse: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 4.6%Inverse: 2.7%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 5.8%Dais Johnston: 2.2%Inverse: 2.1%False Dilemma5.8%This article: 6.2%Dais Johnston: 0.3%Inverse: 0.6%Slippery Slope6.2%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.7%Inverse: 0.5%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 8.9%Dais Johnston: 7.8%Inverse: 8.0%Hasty Generalization8.9%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.1%Inverse: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.7%Inverse: 0.9%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 20.0%Dais Johnston: 5.3%Inverse: 4.2%Appeal to Emotion20.0%This article: 11.6%Dais Johnston: 1.3%Inverse: 1.1%Begging the Question11.6%This article: 7.3%Dais Johnston: 2.8%Inverse: 3.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)7.3%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.1%Inverse: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.4%Inverse: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.1%Inverse: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.7%Inverse: 0.6%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 11.8%Dais Johnston: 1.5%Inverse: 1.3%Anecdotal11.8%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.1%Inverse: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 6.0%Dais Johnston: 2.0%Inverse: 2.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)6.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.0%Inverse: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.2%Inverse: 0.3%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.0%Inverse: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.2%Inverse: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.0%Inverse: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 8.0%Dais Johnston: 2.0%Inverse: 1.6%Unattributed Quote8.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 1.0%Inverse: 0.5%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 11.4%Dais Johnston: 20.4%Inverse: 21.3%Biased Writer Voice11.4%This article: 6.7%Dais Johnston: 1.0%Inverse: 1.5%Indoctrination6.7%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.1%Inverse: 0.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.0%Inverse: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 3.3%Inverse: 2.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

449 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker8.0%attributed speech413writer words
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Kevin Feige

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