MCU Blade Movie Rumored To Have Cut Eternals" Kit Harington As Black Knight
Blade might have cut Kit Harington's Black Knight if a new rumor about the Marvel Cinematic Universe movie is to be believed. Harington, known worldwide for playing Jon Snow in HBO's Game of Thrones, first appeared as Dane Whitman in Marvel Studios' Eternals in 2021. One of the movie's post-credits scenes included Whitman picking up his family's legacy sword, the Ebony Blade, and as the character watched the black goo on the blade move, he was met by an off-camera voice — later confirmed to belong to Mahershala Ali's Blade.
According to Jeff Sneider on THE HOT MIC, Marvel Studios reworked the Blade script, and the current iteration of the Blade movie does not see Black Knight appear.
Sneider already had reported in the past about how the previous Blade script had frustrated star Ali, and ultimately contributed to the movie losing its director and seeing its release date get pushed. The update brings good news to those waiting for Marvel's take on Blade in the MCU, with the new script allegedly having "cut out the fat," although that might mean that Eternals' Black Knight tease will not be followed up in Blade. Check out the full quote below:
"Someone reached out to say that with 'Blade,' things have gotten a little bit better. Things have shaped up, the script is leaner and meaner and they cut out the fat, but the script I heard about was like 87 pages, like there wasn't enough and they'd shaved it to the bone:" "What they'd cut out I heard is that 'Blade' was gonna tie-in with 'Eternals' and Kit Harington's Black Knight." "Black Knight's not really involved in the 'Blade' thing anymore. They may be recasting a few parts including maybe the daughter, was there like a 14-year-old girl? They may recast that."