Ali took the stage at Comic-Con in San Diego on Saturday and put on a “Blade” baseball cap, sending audience members into a frenzy. Mahershala Ali gets the loudest cheer of the night by putting on a Blade cap. #MarvelSDCC pic.twitter.com/GD2KoCF3ynThe “Moonlight” actor previously voiced the Prowler in the critically acclaimed movie “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” and villain Cornell “Cottonmouth” Stokes in the first season of the Netflix/Marvel series “Luke Cage.”Wesley Snipes previously portrayed Blade, a Marvel universe character with superhuman strength and senses who hunts vampires, in “Blade,” “Blade II” and “Blade: Trinity” in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Marvel has not yet announced a release date for the new “Blade” movie starring Ali, but that didn’t stop fans on Twitter from bursting with joy over the casting news. “IT’S THE PERFECT CASTING!!

Source: Huffington Post July 21, 2019 15:56 UTC