Yahya Abdul-Mateen II says the “optics” at Marvel are obvious after the studio canceled his Emmy-nominated series “Wonder Woman” after one season and failed over multiple years to bring to life the “Blade” movie it announced starring Mahershala Ali. Marvel canceled “Wonder Man” in July after previously renewing the series for Season 2. The show’s first season launched in January on Disney+.
If I’m a big business, if I’m Disney, if I’m Marvel, I don’t want to be attached to these optics.” “It should be a priority to change that narrative and to do what it takes to responsibly change that narrative with quality stories, with quality resources,” the actor continued. So our show does deserve some study and some real, hard information about why a show like this did not continue forward, because it had all of the ingredients that one would want in a show.” Abdul-Mateen, who picked up an Emmy nomination for his role on “Wonder Man,” originally reacted to the show’s cancellation on Instagram, writing: “That’s life, right? Everything will shake out.” “The show worked.
And that’s my favorite thing about it,” he added at the time. Shoutout to y’all) and I can see in the messages I get saying how the show reminded some of you not to give up, and I feel it in the genuine love shared when I bump into some of you all during the day. So, thinking of you all today.” Abdul-Mateen starred in “Wonder Man” as Simon Williams, an aspiring actor hiding his superpowers.
Ben Kingsley reprised his role as Trevor Slattery after previous MCU outings. Ali’s “Blade” movie was announced by Marvel at Comic-Con in 2019, but the movie failed to go into production after numerous starts and stops in the writing process. Several directors came and went form the project, from Bassam Tariq to Yann Damange.
Ali told GQ he was training for over a year for “Blade” and then the movie never materialized. Again, you had me under contract, they have billions of dollars, if they wanted to do the movie, we would’ve done the movie. So we’re not doing the movie.” Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige said on the “Happy Sad Confused” last month that he feel like “a gigantic loser and failure” for not following through on Ali’s “Blade” movie.
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