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We gotta ask: Which person involved in the production of Marvel’s eternally gestating revival pissed in God’s cornflakes? , we reported that director Yann Demange—who’d been hand-picked by star Mahershala Ali to serve as the new director of Marvel’s (supposedly) upcoming revival of the vampire-hunting badass franchise—had dropped out of the long-gestating project. Now, diving deeper into the behind-the-scenes issues plaguing the superhero film, which was announced waaaaay back in 2019, and which has now gone five whole years without ever actually shooting a frame of film. The piece starts by noting that has always been a little bit of a weird project, just because of how it got started: Ali, fresh off winning an Oscar for (as well as a very critically applauded Marvel run as one of the bad guys of Netflix’s show), reportedly called up Kevin Feige and his people and said “Hey, let’s make a movie.

” Given that Ali is both a great actor a big Hollywood name, Feige and co. apparently shrugged, said, “Sure,” and then with the rest of their slate at Comic-Con in 2019, at the big show where Marvel, riding its post high, announced basically everything they’d end up making over the next five years. And then.



.. Nothin’! Sure, there was that weird voice cameo at the end of , where Ali, off-camera, asks Jon Snow if he really wants to grab a magic sword.

But despite many, many Marvel film and TV projects having come and gone since that big convention appearance .

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