{"id":23395,"date":"2021-07-20T12:08:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T12:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/pakistani-american-filmmaker-bassam-tariq-in-talks-to-direct-marvel-studios-blade\/"},"modified":"2021-07-20T12:08:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T12:08:03","slug":"pakistani-american-filmmaker-bassam-tariq-in-talks-to-direct-marvel-studios-blade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/?p=23395","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani-American filmmaker Bassam Tariq in talks to direct Marvel Studio&#8217;s Blade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi born director and producer Bassam Tariq, who also has Riz Ahmed&#8217;s <em>Mogul Mowgli<\/em> to his credit, is in talks to direct Marvel Studio&#8217;s upcoming movie <em>Blade, <\/em>starring Mahershala Ali.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time Oscar winner was announced to portray the vampire hunter at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019. The highly anticipated film is currently undated, but expected to be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe\u2019s Phase Four.<\/p>\n<p>Bassam&#8217;s most high-profile movie to date was 2020\u2019s <em>Mogul Mowgli. <\/em>Tariq\u2019s filmography of documentaries and short films includes <em>These Birds Walk, 11\/8\/16, Red Mountain Choir, Wa\u2019ad, Mogambo and Ghosts of Sugar Land.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CMQPiHbBlH0\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CMQPiHbBlH0\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Bassam Tariq (@curry_crayola)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Read: <a title=\"Nimra Bucha makes her way to Hollywood with Ms. Marvel\" href=\"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/nimra-bucha-makes-her-way-to-hollywood-with-ms-marvel\/\">Nimra Bucha makes her way to Hollywood with Ms. Marvel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to <em>Variety<\/em>, in February, <em>Watchmen<\/em> writer Stacy Osei-Kuffour was confirmed to write the movie\u2019s script with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige producing. Wesley Snipes previously played the half-vampire superhero in a trilogy of box-office blockbusters, beginning with 1998\u2019s <em>Blade<\/em>. The series, which included 2002\u2019s <em>Blade II<\/em> and 2004\u2019s <em>Blade Trinity,<\/em> focused on the vigilante, a human who possesses vampire strength and protect humans from the bloodsuckers.<\/p>\n<p>The long-anticipated reboot came together after Ali, who starred in the Marvel series <em>Luke Cage<\/em> for Netflix, made it known to Marvel Studios that he wanted to take up Snipes\u2019 superhero mantle. Marvel Studios eagerly accepted Ali\u2019s pitch and the rest is cinematic history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two-time Oscar winner, Mahershala Ali, will portray the vampire hunter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,37],"tags":[533],"class_list":["post-23395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-bassam-tariqblademarvel-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}