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At this point, Blade fans, I'd turn off those Google notifications. Good news on the Mahershala Ali movie front is pretty much nonexistent at this point. The latest downer? It turns out that Yasuke artist Flying Lotus (AKA Steven Ellison) was originally set to do the music for Marvel's venture into vampires. And now, the musician considers the Marvel collaboration very unlikely to happen at all. 

The claim comes out of Flying Lotus's social media page, in a post the artist made on April 24. "I guess we are so far from it even being a possibility now but," reads the Twitter/X post, "Yeah I was signed on to write music for the new BLADE movie before it fell thru. Maybe it’ll come around again but I doubt it. Would have been fun tho💔"

This is the first time we're aware of a Marvel/Flying Lotus collab has been talked about publicly, although the tone of Flying Lotus post does make it seem like the artist was being asked about the project at some point. Though the post does leave the teensiest bit of room for the possibility that he still may work on the film, one does have to wonder if some kind of final decision led to Ellison's assertion that "I doubt it."

As I said at the top, this is the latest in a series of bad news items to make it out regarding Marvel's Mahershala Ali-starring Blade, and the tone of finality in Ellison's post will certainly have fans wondering if insiders know something we don't regarding a potential cancellation. Officially, Kevin Feige has claimed that "We are committed to the movie and we're so committed to it that we're not going to make it until it's right," but stories like this seem to signal that that commitment is waning.

Or at the very least, that Blade might turn out to be a music-less vampire film. I guess it worked for the original Nosferatu?

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