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The costumes from Marvel Studios' unmade Blade movie were sold to Sinners - at cost!
Where one vampire film falls, another one rises, in the case of Marvel Studios's Blade and Ryan Coogler's Sinners
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What happens when you have a warehouse full of 1920s costumes left from an unmade Marvel Studios Blade film? You strike a deal, of course. Not with the Devil, but with Marvel Studios.
Sinners producer Sev Ohanian revealed to ScreenCrush that costume designer Ruth Carter came to save the day when it came to finding costumes for Sinners. Carter previously had assembled a collection of period-accurate clothes for a previous, unmade version of Marvel Studios's Blade film (which still has not seen the light of day).
Ohanian explained, "Ruth Carter was working on the Blade movie that ended up not shooting. At one point that movie was going to deal with, and she’s talked about this before, but at one point that film was going to deal with the past around the same era as Sinners. She happened to have a warehouse full of period-appropriate clothes, and it was like, ‘Yo, we got to shoot this movie like tomorrow.’ And Marvel was generous enough and kind enough to let us basically purchase it at price."
This version of Blade was written by X-Men '97's Beau De Mayo and was to be directed by Bassam Tariq, who dropped out of the project. It featured a sequence set during the 1920s (according to Variety), hence where the costumes that went to Sinners came from. These costumes aren't the only thing that has been offloaded from the unmade Blade film (my apologies for the rhyme). Last year, we reported that there was an entire train set that had been made for the film that Disney was looking to repurpose in a different project. The fate of the train set is not currently known. But we would like to imagine that it landed in the hands of a very dedicated train hobbyist looking to upgrade their model train set collection.
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