Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Mike Redmond | News | December 30, 2025
In my dorkly travels Monday morning, I saw Gizmodo drop a brief blurb about Jordan Peele wanting to direct a Marvel movie. Right off the bat, this seemed like a cheap and easy attempt to grab eyeballs during a slow holiday week. “Hey, wouldn’t it be neat if Jordan Peele directed Blade? Save. Post. Come to me, my clicks!”
But then something very weird happened: Hours later, Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions posted the following on Twitter, the site never to be known as X.
— Monkeypaw Productions (@Monkeypaw) December 29, 2025
That’s about as close an official confirmation as it gets, so let’s take a look at that report again. Apparently, we’ve got something here. Via World of Reel:
The latest development, which had been traveling all around Marvel fan circles, comes from Daniel Richtman, who says Peele is being eyed for a mysterious Marvel project. What that movie might be is anybody’s guess, but it should be noted that he had previously been rumored for “Blade” and “Midnight [Sons].”
Making a new Blade movie has been seemingly impossible for Marvel, not to mention a constant source of embarrassment as the project burns through directors by the truckload. Locking down Jordan Peele is one way to paper over all of that.
Peele’s involvement also gets more interesting given the timing. Marvel has not been shy about pulling the trigger on a reboot after Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars concludes… whatever the heck The Multiverse Saga is even about. Dropping a Jordan Peele Blade movie that’s unencumbered by the weight of a shared universe and a straight-up passion project is definitely a bold move to usher forth a new era of Marvel.
We can also probably thank James Gunn for this chain of event. Marvel has operated without any sort of competition for far too long, and Superman’s success undoubtedly put the fear of God in them. As the box office has shown, Marvel has to step up its game, and there’s only so many times you can trot out Robert Downey Jr.
Unless, of course, they cast him as Blade. You know they’ve thought about it.
