Marvel's Blade movie to be penned by Watchmen's Stacy Osei-Kuffour February 5, 2021 by: Blade that will star Mahershala Ali ( True Detective), and now THR has reported that the project finally has a writer. Watchmen series, has been tapped to write the Blade reboot for Marvel Studios. The studio has apparently spent the last six months looking for a writer for the project and Mahershala Ali has been "directly involved" in that search. Only Black writers were being seriously considered for the gig, pointing to Marvel's focus on diversity and representation. THR notes that Osei-Kuffour will now become the first Black female writer to pen the script for a Marvel movie, while Nia DaCosta will be the studio's first Black female director with