Influential digital music producer and filmmaker Flying Lotus right this moment revealed he had been tapped to jot down music for Marvel’s long-awaited Blade reboot earlier than the undertaking was indefinitely delayed.
FlyLo took to social media to verify he was signed on to attain the movie.
“I suppose we’re so removed from it even being a risk now however. Yeah I used to be signed on to jot down music for the brand new BLADE film earlier than it fell through,” he wrote on X. “Perhaps it’ll come round once more however I doubt it. Would have been enjoyable tho.”
I suppose we’re so removed from it even being a risk now however. Yeah I used to be signed on to jot down music for the brand new BLADE film earlier than it fell through.
Perhaps it’ll come round once more however I doubt it. Would have been enjoyable tho💔— FLYLO (@flyinglotus) April 24, 2025
The revelation provides one other chapter to the troubled manufacturing historical past of the film, which was introduced with appreciable fanfare at 2019’s San Diego Comedian-Con. Academy Award-winning Inexperienced Guide actor Mahershala Ali was forged to fill the vampire hunter’s leather-based coat beforehand worn by the enduring Wesley Snipes.
Since then, the undertaking has hemorrhaged expertise, reportedly biking by a slew of screenwriters with out efficiently transitioning to manufacturing. The undertaking additionally misplaced a pair of administrators, Bassam Tariq and Yann Demange.
Snipes, who originated the position within the 1998 cult traditional, made a short return to the character in a cameo look in Deadpool & Wolverine earlier this yr, providing followers a bittersweet reminder of the daywalker’s cinematic legacy whereas the reboot stays trapped in improvement hell.
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