Blade (1998) starring Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson. Directed by Stephen Norrington. Screenplay by David S. Goyer. Based on characters created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan. Produced by Peter Frankfurt, Wesley Snipes, Robert Engelman. Run time: 120 minutes. Color. USA. Horror
Before there was the MCU and before the X-Men franchise got
off the ground, there was Blade. Not the first Marvel adventure into
films, there was a Captain America serial in 1944, and, of course, the
misfortunate Howard the Duck (1978), but unlike that film, Blade showed
there was money to be made from adapting comic books for the big screen.
There are other firsts for Blade that often attributed to other films. As an example, it was the first comic book film adaptation to feature a Black superhero, not Black Panther. And the first comic book adaptation to receive an R rating, not Deadpool.
