“Watchmen” Scribe Stacy Osei-Kuffour To Pen Marvel’s “Blade”

Heat Vision is reporting that Stacy Osei-Kuffour, a New York playwright who acted as story editor and writer on HBO's acclaimed limited series Watchmen, has been tapped to pen the script for Blade, the feature reboot of Marvel’s vampire-hunting franchise. She will be the first Black female scribe to write a Marvel movie. (Nia DaCosta, working on Captain Marvel 2, is Marvel's first Black woman director.)

Osei-Kuffourwill handle this reboot of the property about the ‘Daywalker’ with Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali in the lead role.

Ali’s involvement was revealed eighteen months ago at San Diego Comic Con in 2019 and both he and Marvel spent months meeting with writers in a meticulous search to find the right person for the job.

Marvel will next move to hiring a director who will work with Osei-Kuffour who also worked on Hulu’s acclaimed “Pen15” series, HBO’s “Run” and Amazon’s “Hunters”.