Mia Goth Joins Marvel’s ‘Blade’ With Mahershala Ali

After a massive year in 2022 with back-to-back buzzworthy performances in X and Pearl, Mia Goth has added a role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to her resume, joining Marvels Blade.

The Marvel Studios film stars Oscar winner Mahershala Ali as the title vampire slayer, directed by Yann Demange (Lovecraft Country, White Boy Rick) from a script by Emmy nominee Michael Starrbury, which is said to be darker than most MCU movies. Goth joins a star-studded cast that also includes Aaron Pierre and Delroy Lindo, but details of her role are being kept under wraps.

The Blade reboot was first announced at the 2019 Comic-Con, where Marvel Studio chief Kevin Feige surprised Hall H by announcing Ali would take up the mantle of the infamous daywalker after Wesley Snipes played the Marvel Comics character in three films between 1998 and 2006.

Blade is currently slated to hit theaters on Sept. 6, 2024 as the final film in Phase Five of the MCU.

Since making her big screen debut in Lars von Triers Nymphomaniac, Goth has been a standout player in films like Luca Guadagninos Suspiria, Claire Denis High Life, Autumn de Wildes Emma and Branden Cronenbergs Infinity Pool, which made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

Goth is next set to close out her work in Ti Wests horror trilogy for A24 with the release of MaXXXine. In the 70s-set X, Goth played dual roles: a young woman named Maxine, an aspiring adult film star whose cast mates and crew are brutally murdered over the course of the slasher movie, and an elderly woman named Pearl. The sequel, Pearl, which Goth co-wrote with West, serves as an origin story for the title serial killer set in 1918. MaXXXine presents the aftermath as Maxine, the lone survivor of the first films brutal murders, sets off to make it as an actor in 1980s Los Angeles.

In January, Goth reflected on her experience with the trilogy, as it became a pop-culture phenomenon, with a 9-minute monologue that left many wondering if she could land Oscar consideration.

Pearl has fundamentally changed me as a performer, Goth told Variety. Its given me a whole new sense of self and a whole new level of confidence in terms of what I think I am able to do.

About the trilogys final film, she teased: Its the biggest story of the three with the highest stakes and Maxine has gone through so much at this point. So when we find her in this new world, shes just a force to be reckoned with and she goes through some pretty wild adventures.

MaXXXine is currently in production, with Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Lily Collins, Halsey, Giancarlo Esposito and Kevin Bacon rounding out the cast. And Blade isnt the only high-profile project on Goths horizon; she is also reportedly circling a role opposite Andrew Garfield and Oscar Isaac in Guillermo del Toros live-action Frankenstein movie for Netflix.

Goth is represented by WME and Curtis Brown.

Deadline was first to report news of her casting. Marvel had no comment.