With Blade’s MCU Movie Reportedly Dead, Arkane’s Game is Under More Pressure Than Ever

Marvel’s Blade has spent the better part of two decades moving toward the edge of Marvel’s cultural cache, but a reintroduction via MCU reboot was supposed to change that. Instead, years of rewrites, director changes, and shifting release windows have seemingly culminated in reports that Marvel Studios is shelving the standalone Blade film and moving instead to a Midnight Sons movie. That leaves Marvel’s Blade, and Arkane Lyon by extension, in a difficult position, where it now carries the weight of reintroducing the Daywalker to a mass audience largely on its own, without the cinematic reinforcement of the MCU’s marketing machine.