Overview
- Bassam Tariq told reporters Sunday that Marvel had already choreographed large action sequences and built elaborate 1920s New Orleans sets at Trilith Studios even though the Blade script was not settled.
- Tariq said he was not allowed to write the script and that he left the project in September 2022 after about 14 months on the job.
- He described the planned action as wire-heavy stunts that leaned into vampire abilities like jumping between buildings, leaving crafted choreography and sets unused when the project stalled.
- Tariq defended Marvel chief Kevin Feige as overburdened and adaptable while Mahershala Ali said he has moved on and criticized the studio for failing to get the film made.
- The fight training and production work were repurposed into Tariq and Ali’s new film Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, illustrating both the personal costs of the stalled reboot and how pre-production labor can be salvaged into smaller, independent projects.