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Wesley Snipes Reveals Untold Story Behind His 'Black Panther' Film
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Did you draw this? Amzaing breh
I wish! I saw it on Twitter
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I'm a huge Snipes fan but this has me
cause the Blade character has no range at allAnd he shouldn't
I heard a podcast with the director of Blade 3 years ago. He’s a corny guy and thought he was bigger than Wesley. So he wanted to prove he didn’t need Wesley to make a good Blade movie which proved to be untrueall just to push two trash characters that no one gave a shyt about...
Red Shield
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considering goyer hasn't directed anything worth talking about since....
Reminds me of that garbage Spider-Man script James Cameron wrote back in the early 90s.John Singletons idea
What movie are you talking about?
I just seriously googled Blade 4, like "did they make a fourth Blade movie I never heard of?
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For the last god damn time Blade 3 isn’t a bad movie.
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'Blade' Created the Superhero Movie Boom, Not 'X-Men'
In the wake of 'Black Panther,' Marvel fans are appreciating the 20-year-old 'Blade.'
By Eric Francisco on January 31, 2018
Filed Under Action Movies, Black Panther, Superheroes & Twitter
Twenty years ago, Blade hit theaters with action star Wesley Snipes as a slick vampire hunter with a ninja sword and Oakley sunglasses. An adaptation of a Marvel comic book no one heard of, the film was a success that spawned two sequels and a (short-lived) television series.
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Today, there’s new appreciation for Bladefollowing Monday’s Hollywood Reporterinterview with Snipes, in which the actor explained how he spent the nineties trying to make a Black Panther movie. When his passion project was put to rest, Snipes shifted to Blade, a Marvel superhero even less known by the mainstream. Like Black Panther, Blade was also a black hero with powers based in martial arts (Snipes has black belts in Shotokan Karate and Hapkido).
Physically, Blade was a great substitute for Snipes, but thematically Blade lacked the nuance of T’Challa, the warrior-king of Wakanda, an African nation never subjected to colonialism. Snipes was aware of Black Panther’s significance and wanted to play that onscreen, but he had to settle for killing vampires instead, an easier sell given Hollywood’s long love for vampire and monster horror.
In 2018 there’s superhero media everywhere, but it’s usually Bryan Singer’s X-Men that gets credit for the superhero boom. But in the wake of overwhelmingly positive reviews for Black Panther, fans are expressing appreciation for the Bladefilms, which were simultaneously prescient as they are relics of early 21st century action movies.
Strictly speaking, Blade isn’t even the first black superhero movie. (Remember Spawn? Or Steel?) But Blade was one of the first successful superhero movies, one that happened to have a black lead, and it paved the way for future hits like X-Menthat got the superhero train moving.
But Blade’s arrival, two years before X-Men, is still recognized as equally important. The film featured a leading black superhero in a time when there were almost no movie superheroes, except Batman and Superman. (Even Batman was MIA after 1997’s Batman & Robin, which pretty much ended Batman movies until 2005. Now, we get a Batman movie every six months.)
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“Even people IN Comics forget or avoid mentioning Blade,” tweeted comics writer Gail Simone on Wednesday. “Without Blade, there would have not been a successful X franchise copying it. Without X-men, Marvel as a movie powerhouse might never have come to pass. Blade was the first domino.”
Sonny Bunch of The Washington Postechoes Simone, saying Blade “served as a proof of concept for Marvel’s jump into the world of big budget licensed filmmaking. If you want to look at the current glut of superhero movies, Blade is as good a place to start as any.”
P.S. -Stop with the lies that Black people didn't go out and support the "Blade" movies. Yes the fukk we did. Hell I even gave my money to "Blade: Trinity" (which was awful)...
— ReBecca Theodore-Vachon (@FilmFatale_NYC) January 31, 2018
I think the reason why Blade gets overlooked when it comes the conversation of the resurgence of superhero movies + Black superhero movies is because it wasn't marketed as such. A lot of folks didn't even know it was based on a comic and Marvel certainly didn't push Blade comics.
— Richard Newby (@RICHARDLNEWBY) January 30, 2018
So are we just pretending that Blade (a Marvel property) and Spawn don't exist and don't have films? Are we also pretending that white audiences don't love those two franchises, even though they LOVE the fukk out of it?
Is that what we're doing? pic.twitter.com/gCld9LdEHi
— Oliver Campbell (@oliverbcampbell) January 19, 2018
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An obscure character even to many nerds before 1998, Blade was created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan in 1973 in Marvel’s Tomb of Dracula comics. In a 2001 interview, Colan said of Blade as a black man:
“Oh, I knew it was good, this character. Blacks were not portrayed in comics up to that time, not really. So I wanted to be one of the first to portray blacks in comics. There were black people in this world, they buy comic books, why shouldn’t we make them feel good? Why shouldn’t I have the opportunity to be one of the first to draw them? I enjoyed it!”
Marvel’s Black Panther is already being showered with glowing reviews, which hail the film as a cultural phenomenon and an important entry in not just Marvel’s franchise, but the wider scope of popular culture. The film, directed by Ryan Coogler, is bound to be a thrilling, and even revelatory, time at the theater. Some fans just want to remind others how we got here.
Marvel’s Black Panther will be released in theaters on February 16. Blade, Blade II, and Blade: Trinity are available now on DVD, Blu-ray, and on digital platforms.
Photos via New Line Cinema
Written by Eric Francisco
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Bleed The Freak
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For the last god damn time Blade 3 isn’t a bad movie.
shyt was an abomination. He ain't need no Hannibal King or Whistler's daughter.
The forced "Hey it's me Ryan Reynolds" frat boy humor was BRUTALLY out of place here. And Green Lantern (although that movie had a million other issues) and Wolverine (again an awful flick no matter what he did)....but oh Deadpool it worked.
Fight scenes were awful and the obvious stunt doubles cause Snipes was disgusted was ridiculously obvious. Dracula was a joke and the effects were terrible.
They should have stuck with the original Mad Max type plot. Should tell you since Goyer has only been a writer since....a pretty good one too.....but directing....fukk no.
This was Snipes baby since the mid 90's and he got fukked over on this movie. New Line knew....everyone knew it.
They completely fukked Snipes on this. When Daniel Day-Lewis is a method actor it's all good but when Snipes stays in Blade mode......
Blade II was a dope follow up with the Reapers and Del Toro added the horror elements needed loved that one too...it's opening scene in that house in Ukraine going level to.level damn near matched the club scene (one of the best openings EVER)...but Blade III....fukk that.
Blade was so ahead of its time
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No...blade ....3.....Ain't that shyt called "Blade Trinity"
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ayo! - BEZ
I never realized blade did bigger box office than x-men
