Flying Lotus Was Writing Music for Marvel's "Blade" Reboot Before Indefinite Delay

Influential electronic music producer and filmmaker Flying Lotus today revealed he had been tapped to write music for Marvel’s long-awaited Blade reboot before the project was indefinitely delayed.

FlyLo took to social media to confirm he was signed on to score the film.

“I guess we are so far from it even being a possibility now but. Yeah I was signed on to write music for the new BLADE movie before it fell thru,” he wrote on X. “Maybe it’ll come around again but I doubt it. Would have been fun tho.”

I guess we are so far from it even being a possibility now but. 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💔

— FLYLO (@flyinglotus) April 24, 2025

The revelation adds another chapter to the troubled production history of the movie, which was announced with considerable fanfare at 2019’s San Diego Comic-Con. Academy Award-winning Green Book actor Mahershala Ali was cast to fill the vampire hunter’s leather coat previously worn by the iconic Wesley Snipes.

Since then, the project has hemorrhaged talent, reportedly cycling through a slew of screenwriters without successfully transitioning to production. The project also lost a pair of directors, Bassam Tariq and Yann Demange.

Snipes, who originated the role in the 1998 cult classic, made a brief return to the character in a cameo appearance in Deadpool & Wolverine earlier this year, offering fans a bittersweet reminder of the daywalker’s cinematic legacy while the reboot remains trapped in development hell.