After years of delays, rewrites, director changes, and endless speculation, Mahershala Ali has finally closed the door on Blade . Based on his latest comments, it doesn't sound like there was any mystery about why the movie never happened.

The two-time Oscar winner “moved on” from a long-awaited Marvel role—and re-teamed with writer/director Bassam Tariq for an original, “uniquely deep” action project instead.

This is why Ryan Gosling’s Ghost Rider movie could be the secret in-road to Mahershala Ali's Blade finally joining the MCU.