<p class="title">Two-time Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali is set to lead Marvel Studios' "Blade" reboot.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige made the announcement during a panel at the San Diego Comic-Con.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ali also took the stage at the announcement donning the Blade baseball cap.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Created by writer Marv Wolfman, Blade first made an appearance in the 1973 comic book "The Tomb of Dracula #10" as a supporting character.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He is a vampire hunter--half-mortal, half-immortal--who tries to free the world from vampires as a way of avenging his mother, who was killed by a vampire as she gave birth to him.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Actor Wesley Snipes played the character in David S Goyer's "Blade" franchise.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Post the presentation, Feige told The Hollywood Reporter, that he had received a call from Ali expressing his desire to work with the studio.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"When Marhershala calls, you answer," Feige said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He added that Ali came right out and said that he wanted to do Blade.</p>
<p class="title">Two-time Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali is set to lead Marvel Studios' "Blade" reboot.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige made the announcement during a panel at the San Diego Comic-Con.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ali also took the stage at the announcement donning the Blade baseball cap.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Created by writer Marv Wolfman, Blade first made an appearance in the 1973 comic book "The Tomb of Dracula #10" as a supporting character.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He is a vampire hunter--half-mortal, half-immortal--who tries to free the world from vampires as a way of avenging his mother, who was killed by a vampire as she gave birth to him.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Actor Wesley Snipes played the character in David S Goyer's "Blade" franchise.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Post the presentation, Feige told The Hollywood Reporter, that he had received a call from Ali expressing his desire to work with the studio.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"When Marhershala calls, you answer," Feige said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He added that Ali came right out and said that he wanted to do Blade.</p>