Why Blade 4 With Wesley Snipes Never Happened
With Blade confirmed to be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and making his proper debut in his solo movie in the near future, fans of the character can’t help to look back to the past movie trilogy and wonder why Blade 4 starring Wesley Snipes never happened. Years before the MCU was a thing, different directors brought a variety of Marvel characters to the big screen, but not all of them were successful. Among those characters was Blade, the vampire hunter dhampir who got his first movie in 1998 with Wesley Snipes in charge of bringing him to life.
Directed by Stephen Norrington, Blade explored the character’s origin story and followed his mission to kill vampires – namely the vicious Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff) – alongside his mentor, Abraham Whistler (Kris Kristofferson), and hematologist Karen Jenson (N’Bushe Wright). Blade was a commercial success but not so much a critical one, but the audience welcomed it with open arms, and so the studio granted it a sequel. Now directed by Guillermo del Toro, Blade II was released in 2002 and saw Blade and company joining forces with a group of vampires to stop a group of mutant ones looking to commit global genocide.
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Blade II was also a box office hit but got mixed reviews from critics, but a third movie was greenlit anyway. Blade: Trinity, directed by David S. Goyer, was released in 2004 and was panned by critics, and that was the last time viewers saw Wesley Snipes as the vampire hunter. Blade is now getting a new chance in the MCU, but the question of why Blade 4 never happened remains – and here’s what happened.
Blade 4 doesn’t seem to have ever been in the studio’s plans, but there was interest in
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