"That's a Scarlett question." "Well, there's one that we're very excited about," Bailey quipped back, referencing Ali's long-delayed "Balde" reboot. Although the feature comic book adaptation about the daywalking vampire hunter has been in production limbo for the past six years,

Though there were rumors that the film’s star, Mahershala Ali was close to quitting the project himself out of pure frustration, he himself has never said he was walking away from the project and now it seems like he doesn’t want to speak on the topic at all.

It’s been nearly six years since Marvel first announced Blade with two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali set to star, but the project still feels like a shadow in the MCU lineup. And now, even Ali seems to be tiptoeing around the subject.