The Blade reboot saga keeps getting stranger.
Now Mia Goth — long rumored to be playing Lilith — offers insights into what went wrong, and her comments confirm just how far the film actually got before falling apart.
Mia Goth: “I Don’t Know What’s Going On With That”
Speaking with Josh Horowitz, Goth didn’t sugarcoat anything. She made it clear she has no idea why Blade is still stuck in development hell:
“I don’t know what’s going on with that,” she said. “I think that they want to make it, and it’s such an important film for them that they’re taking their time with it. I really don’t have any information. I don’t know why it’s taken the time that it has, but we will see.”
Marvel Studios “taking their time” has now turned into six years of rewrites, director exits, abandoned scripts, and shifting visions for the film.
Chemistry Test, Costume Fitting… and Then It Fell Apart
Goth revealed that production actually moved much further than fans realized.
“The furthest that it got with me … they flew [me] to Atlanta, and we did a chemistry test between Mahershala and I, and we did a costume fitting and a wig fitting, and I was very excited in the direction it was going,” she said. “It was very cool. And Mahershala had such an interesting take on it, and he was great. And then it just unraveled from there, unfortunately.”
This means Marvel had cast chemistry sessions, wardrobe, and character direction locked in — only for the entire thing to collapse.
A Period Piece, Blade’s Daughter, and Abandoned Plans
The unraveling Goth describes lines up with everything reported, which includes that one of the early scripts was a period piece, set in the 1920s or 1930s.
Costumes created for that version were handed off to Ryan Coogler for his film Sinners.
Multiple drafts centered the story around Blade’s daughter, pushing Ali into a side role — exactly the kind of replacement‑heavy approach fans have criticized in the post‑Endgame MCU.
It’s no surprise that Mahershala Ali pushed back on becoming a guest star in his own movie.
Back to Present Day — Again
Kevin Feige recently admitted Marvel went through at least four versions of Blade, two of them period pieces, before finally deciding they “landed on modern day.”
That matches Goth’s comments about her costume and wig tests taking place before the reboot collapsed yet again.
Now Goth doesn’t know where things stand. Ali has said he’s “ready.” Feige keeps offering excuses. And Marvel still insists Blade is a priority while treating it like anything but.
