“Sinners” gave audiences a sneak peek at Marvel‘s “Blade” reboot with out them even realizing.

Throughout a current interview with ScreenCrush, “Sinners” producers Sev Ohanian shared a “enjoyable Marvel easter egg” hidden in Ryan Coogler’s vampire thriller. Ohanian revealed that costumes initially set for the extremely anticipated “Blade” have been repurposed for “Sinners” after the Marvel manufacturing hit a roadblock.

“[Costume designer] Ruth Carter was engaged on the Blade film that ended up not capturing,” he defined. “At one level that film was going to cope with, and he or she’s talked about this earlier than, however at one level that movie was going to cope with the previous across the identical period as ‘Sinners.’ She occurred to have a warehouse filled with period-appropriate garments, and it was like, ‘Yo, we received to shoot this film like tomorrow.’ And Marvel was beneficiant sufficient and type sufficient to allow us to principally buy it at value.”

Ohanian added that “a number of the background actors” wore the garments meant for “Blade” whereas the celebrities had authentic costumes.

“Sinners,” which debuted on April 18, is likely one of the main field workplace phenomena of 2025. A wholly authentic horror movie launched to a sea of IP fare, the movie went on to gross a staggering $364 million worldwide. It’s at the moment the eighth highest-grossing movie of 2025 and the one title within the high 10 not based mostly on preexisting IP.

Marvel’s “Blade,” first introduced in 2019, has been in manufacturing limbo ever since. Nonetheless, the movie’s star, Mahershala Ali, just lately informed Selection that he stays able to step into the position of the daywalking vampire hunter.

“Name Marvel,” Ali stated on the New York premiere of his new movie “Jurassic World Rebirth.” “I’m prepared. Allow them to know I’m prepared.”