Influential digital music producer and filmmaker Flying Lotus right now revealed he had been tapped to write down music for Marvel’s long-awaited Blade reboot earlier than the undertaking was indefinitely delayed.
FlyLo took to social media to substantiate he was signed on to attain the movie.
“I assume we’re so removed from it even being a chance now however. Yeah I used to be signed on to write 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 assume we’re so removed from it even being a chance now however. Yeah I used to be signed on to write 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 E-book actor Mahershala Ali was forged to fill the vampire hunter’s leather-based coat beforehand worn by the long-lasting Wesley Snipes.
Since then, the undertaking has hemorrhaged expertise, reportedly biking via 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 function 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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