Mahershala Ali is still waiting to play Blade, six years after Marvel’s Comic-Con reveal. “Let them know I’m ready,” he says.

Even David S. Goyer, the filmmaker who famously penned the screenplays for the original Blade trilogy before stepping in to direct 2004's Blade: Trinity, has shared that he is "baffled" by the film's troubled production history.

It’s been nearly six years since Mahershala Ali stepped out onstage during Marvel Studios’ Hall H presentation at San Diego Comic-Con, where producer Kevin Feige announced that the two-time Oscar-winning actor would be playing the vampire slayer Blade,