MCU Blade's Toughest Challenge Isn't What You Think It Is

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Blade will soon make his debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the martial arts fight scenes of the Wesley Snipes Blade movies will be its greatest challenge to overcome. The MCU’s reboot of Blade was first announced at 2019’s San Diego Comic-Con, with Mahershala Ali revealed as the vampire hunter. Following Ali making a voice cameo in Eternals as his first in-universe portrayal of Blade, Marvel’s Blade is on its way to theaters in late 2023, bearing the title of The Blade.

Snipes has voiced his support for Ali succeeding him as the MCU’s Daywalker, but even absent the involvement of Snipes, the Blade movies he anchored will surely have a great impact on the MCU’s take on the character. Part of that lies in the impact the original Blade have in making the character a very mainstream superhero at a time when he was not a widely known character. However, the Blade movies set another major hurdle for any reboot to face in the style of their fight scenes.

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Blade was an R-rated movie — as was Blade II  — unlike Marvel's Blade. The original films were also released when superhero movies were gradually starting to catch on but had not yet come to be as dominant a genre as they’ve become. That meant that Blade and Blade II were essentially sold more as Hong Kong-style action movies that happened to feature vampires and be rooted in Marvel Comics. And while Blade: Trinity is still remembered as a disaster, the first two Blade movies accomplished that goal in spades — making the toughest challenge for the new movie that of matching up with its predecessors.

It is easy to take great fight scenes for granted in contemporary superhero films, but Blade arrived