Wesley Snipes Reflects On Why He Made The First Blade Movie
Wesley Snipes reflects on the making of Blade and why he took the role of the daywalker. Blade is set to join the MCU, as Kevin Feige announced back at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019, with two-time Academy Award winner Mahershia Ali playing the title character who made his introduction with a voice cameo at the end credits of Eternals. Yet before Ali, the man most associated with the role of Blade and who made the character a household name was Snipes, the star of films like White Men Can't Jump and Demolition Man.
After failing to get a Black Panther movie off the ground, Snipes took the lead role in Blade. Based on the Marvel character created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan, the film drastically reworked Blade's comic book origins and redefined the character. The film was released in 1998, after the release of box office disasters like Batman and Robin, Steel andSpawn, which almost killed the comic book genre. Blade was a box office hit, grossing $131.2 million worldwide, and helped usher in a new era of Marvel superhero films like X-Men, Spider-Man, and eventually the birth of the MCU.
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In an interview with Comicbookmovie.com to promote his new comic book, The Exiled, which he co-created with writer Adam Lawson, Snipes briefly talked about the making of Blade and what motivated him to accept the role in the film. Snipes thought the film would be a niche movie, made for audiences who were fans of martial arts movies and blaxploitation films like Shaft but was surprised at how much more of a mainstream hit the film eventually became. When reflecting on Blade's legacy, Snipes said:
«It’s amazing. In the beginning, my motivation for doing the first Blade
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