Delroy Lindo is one of my favorite actors and he’s going through a resurgence of sorts with The Harder They Fall, Da 5 Bloods, and The Good Fight. So excited that he’s joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe and I now need a scene with him and Samuel L. Jackson chopping it up.

Delroy Lindo is joining the cast of Marvel Studios’ “Blade,” starring Mahershala Ali as the titular human-vampire hybrid. Lindo, who most recently appeared in the Netflix Western “The Harder They Fall,” is the first actor to join the cast since Ali broke the news of the “Blade” reboot at the end of Marvel Studios’ 2019 panel at San Diego Comic-Con.

It’s unclear who Lindo will be playing, but one strong possibility is Jamal Afari, who in the Marvel comics is the man who raised and mentored Blade — a.k.a. Eric Brooks — in the ways of vampire hunting when Eric was young. In the comics, Jamal is Black, but in the 1998 feature adaptation of “Blade” starring Wesley Snipes, the character was renamed Abraham Whistler and cast with white actor Kris Kristofferson. Marvel has not yet announced a release date for “Blade,” but observers expect the film to debut in the fall of 2023.

Source: Variety