MCU Blade Reboot Will Be Very Different (But Can't Ignore Snipes' Movies)
Mahershala Ali will lead the forthcoming Blade reboot in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and while it will be very different from the original Wesley Snipes Blade films, it can't completely ignore them. The introductory film of the Blade movie trilogy,Blade made its big-screen debut in 1998 and became the first Marvel-based movie to be a major theatrical success. Two sequels would follow in Blade II and Blade: Trinity, though the disappointment of the latter would mark the end of the series.
Though Blade would return to the small screen with the short-lived Spike TV series Blade starring Kirk «Sticky Fingaz» Jones, the show's single-season run would be the last audiences would see of the Daywalker for years. Eventually, Marvel Studios announced plans to reboot Blade in the MCU at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con. The reboot will see Mahershala Ali assume the role from Wesley Snipes, the voice of Ali's Blade heard in Eternals in the movie's end-credits scene.
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Being a part of the long-running MCU, the Blade reboot will be tasked with reintroducing the character to modern audiences. Still, even as it does that, the effect that the Blade films (particularly the original Blade) had on superhero movies cannot be overlooked in any new take on the Daywalker. Having made such an undeniable impact, Blade makes it inevitable that Marvel's reboot will still take some influence from the Snipes-led movies.
When Blade debuted in 1998, the landscape for superhero movies was completely unrecognizable from what it is today. Big-screen comic book adventures were much fewer and further between, and regarded with far less positivity at the time. Marvel specifically had experienced virtually
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