Blade (2025)
Summary
A major cast choice for Marvel Studios ' upcomingBladereboot might have just been confused thanks to a vast change in the prescribed timeline of theMCU . Long before the Day of Disney+ , Marvel Television produced its own serial publication of show for Netflix focused on more ripe , street - level stories and characters . Dubbed theDefenders Saga , Daredevil , Jessica Jones , Luke Cage , Iron Fist , The DefendersandThe Punisherhave recently been the subject area of dispute concerning MCU canon . ab initio , these shows were thought to be set in the human beings of the MCU , but the development ofMarvel Studios ' own television display for Disney+left this unreadable .
Marvel Television’sDefenders Sagasaw Charlie Cox , Krysten Ritter , Mike Colter , Finn Jones , Jon Bernthal and Vincent D’Onofrio portray some of Marvel Comics ' most iconic street - level grapheme in live - action . Cox and D’Onofrio have since reprised their roles of Matt Murdock ’s Daredevil and Wilson Fisk ’s Kingpin , respectively , in the MCU proper , and Bernthal will join them inMarvel Studios’Daredevil : Born Again , but the others ' future are less clear . However , there is Bob Hope for these other heroes to return after recent development in theMCU ’s official timeline , but other theatrical role ' report may have been confused by some major changes behind the aspect at Marvel Studios .
The Netflix Marvel show are on Disney+ . With Daredevil : Born Again on the way , here ’s the full watch ordering for The Defenders show and The Punisher .
Marvel Just Made The Defenders MCU Canon
In conjunction with the release of Marvel Studios’Echoseries in January 2024 , Marvel Television’sDefenders Sagaprojects were close down into the MCU ’s official timelinelisted on Disney+ . This seems to imply that the six shows that in the beginning aired on Netflix may now be officially canon to the MCU ’s overarching chronicle , though Marvel Studios has n’t yet provided gossip on the issue . Echomarked the return of Daredevil and Kingpin , with the latter confirming that some events depicted in Netflix’sDaredevilseries occurred in the MCU ’s main continuity , though it seems Marvel Studios is foot and take which bits to keep and which to rewrite .
Blade’s MCU Casting Is More Complex After The Timeline Change
While the idea of theDefenders Sagafinally being confirmed to be canyon to the MCU is exciting for several reasons , not least because it imply pop character may return in the MCU ’s futurity , this could also confound the status quo of several upcoming MCU projects . Perhaps most notably , Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali has been attach toMarvel Studios ' upcomingBladerebootsince 2019 , and is determine to appear as the celluloid ’s titular ace , a leading role in the MCU.This is despite his turn as the villain Cornell " Cottonmouth " Stokes inLuke Cage , which was another independent role , so his double - cast could be difficult to explicate .
This wo n’t be the first meter anactor has depict two different MCU roles . Gemma Chan debuted as Minn - Erva inCaptain Marvelbefore get into the function of Sersi inEternals , Michelle Yeoh portrayed Aleta Ogord inGuardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2and Ying Nan inShang - Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings , andLuke Cagealum Alfre Woodard played Cottonmouth ’s full cousin Mariah Dillard in the Netflix series as well as Miriam Sharpe inCaptain America : Civil War . This intend thatMarvel Studios could ignore the three-fold - cast of Mahershala AliinLuke CageandBlade , or perhaps another explanation will be formulate to explain his characters ' identical appearance .
