{
  "id": 9188011,
  "title": "Mahershala Ali Says ‘I Agree’ That Marvel Not Making ‘Blade’ Is the ‘Biggest Failure’ of Kevin Feige’s Career: ‘I Don’t Know Why It Didn’t Happen’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/mahershala-ali-says-i-agree-that-marvel-not-making-blade-is-the",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-22T19:46:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/news/mahershala-ali-blade-failure-kevin-feige-1236872401/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Mahershala Ali is dumbfounded like the rest of us when it comes to Marvel’s inability to get his “Blade” movie reboot off the ground. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige told the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast over the summer that he was “feeling like a gigantic loser and failure” for bungling Ali’s “Blade,” and now the […]",
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  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "TheWrap",
        "title": "Mahershala Ali Agrees With Kevin Feige Feeling Like a Failure for Not Making ‘Blade’: ‘He Should Feel That Way’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/mahershala-ali-agrees-with-kevin-feige-feeling-like-a-failure-for-not",
        "published": "2026-09-22T19:19:33.000Z"
      }
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}