Blade reboot was going to be set in the 1920s and feature Flying Lotus music

Flying Lotus was attached to provide music for the Blade reboot, which was going to be set in the 1920s at one point The post Blade reboot was going to be set in the 1920s and feature Flying Lotus music appeared first on JoBlo.

Apr 25, 2025 - 17:34

Blade reboot was going to be set in the 1920s and feature Flying Lotus music

The fact that there was going to be a Blade reboot as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starring Mashershala Ali in the title role, came as a huge surprise when the announcement was made at the San Diego Comic-Con back in July of 2019… but we’re coming up on the six year anniversary of that announcement, and we still haven’t seen a new Blade movie. The closest we’ve gotten is Ali making a vocal cameo as the character at the end of Eternals back in 2021. Now, we don’t know if we’re going to get a Blade reboot at all – but we have received confirmation that, at some point in the development process, the movie was going to be set in the 1920s and the plan was for recording artist Flying Lotus, who recently made his feature directorial debut with the sci-fi horror film Ash, to provide some music for it.

There have been rumblings of Blade being set in the 1920s for a while now, and during a podcast interview with Robert Meyer Burnett, costume designer Ruth E. Carter – who worked with director Ryan Coogler on his newly released, 1930s-set vampire movie Sinners – confirmed that she had been working on a 1920s-set version of Blade before she got the Sinners job. Talking about how that job came about, Carter said, “I was prepping Blade for Marvel and it was a 1920s Blade story. It got shut down because of the writers strike and the actors strike and so I was just in limbo, having done a lot of research for this period piece about a vampire – Blade is a vampire story. Ryan (Coogler)’s wife, Zinzi, who also was a producer on the picture (Sinners), she gave me a call and said, ‘I’m not gonna tell you the story, but Ryan has a story he’s going to tell you about, I can’t do it justice like he can, so I’m not going to get into the details, but it is a period piece about vampires.’ And I thought, ‘Okay, I have already been living in that space for quite a long time prepping Blade, and Blade‘s not going to happen, so let me hear it.’“

As for Flying Lotus, he shared his heartbreak on no longer being attached to Blade in a tweet: “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. Would have been fun tho.“