Blade‘s Former Costume Designer Affirms It Could Have Been a Period Piece

Remember Marvel’s Blade reboot starring Mahershala Ali? Not the one currently in development hell, but the version originally slated for release in November 2023 before getting scrapped after losing its director twice? Well, its former costume designer does. What’s more, she has confirmed the project that never came to fruition was originally going to be a period piece. Speaking on the Designing Hollywood podcast, Ruth E. Carter, the two-time Academy Award-winning costume designer known for her work on films like Coming 2 America and director Ryan Coogler‘s Sinners as well as both Black Panthers, looked back on her experiences prepping for Blade. Fortunately, all of Carter’s time spent brainstorming costume designs for the canned Blade reboot wasn’t for nothing, because she ended up following a similar path for Sinners. “I was prepping Blade for Marvel, and it was a 1920s Blade story, and it got shut down because of the writers’ strike and the actors’ strike, so I was just in limbo,” ... Read full article.