"That's a Scarlett question." "Well, there's one that we're very excited about," Bailey quipped back, referencing Ali's long-delayed "Balde" reboot. Although the feature comic book adaptation about the daywalking vampire hunter has been in production limbo for the past six years,

Marvel Studios' long-awaited reboot of "Blade" starring Mahershala Ali has faced yet another major setback after being removed from Disney's 2025 release calendar entirely in October 2024. The film, which was slated for a November 7, 2025 release, has been replaced by "Predator: Badlands" on the schedule.

Though there were rumors that the film’s star, Mahershala Ali was close to quitting the project himself out of pure frustration, he himself has never said he was walking away from the project and now it seems like he doesn’t want to speak on the topic at all.