When it comes to Marvel movies, many people first think of "Iron Man", "Captain America", "Thor" and the Avengers, but in fact, as early as twenty years ago, Marvel made a superhero series of movies.
The series of films was released in the 1998 Blade series, based on Marvel Comics' original comic Blade, which featured vampire hunters. The film version starred Wesley Snipes, Chisch Raulz, Stephen Dolf, Yudu Chiel, Christopherson, Sanna Lesser, and Li Xiangning.
The film tells the story of the half-human, half-vampire Blade (Wesley Snips) who is taught by the vampire hunter Whistler (Christopherson) that, with his own abilities and skills learned, he goes out of the place where there are no vampires, saves humans who are used as food, and uses the silver sword behind him to eliminate the vampires one by one.
In 1998, blade warriors first appeared on the big screen, and they made $130 million in theaters around the world, and the combination of blood, American-style Hong Kong kung fu, and now a classic hanging slow mirror shot, coupled with Wesley Snipes, a black hero, is in the eyes of many fans, and only "Hacker Empire" can compare with it.
Marvel then filmed "Blade Runner 2" and "Blade Runner 3", which also made the film's male protagonist, black star Wesley Snipes, successfully become a Hollywood A-list movie star, and the success of the film made superhero movies begin to recover, and Blade Warrior was later hailed as Hollywood's most successful superhero movie.
And as the male protagonist of the film is imprisoned for tax evasion, the "Blade Warrior" series of movies has also entered the dust of history, making many fans sigh.
In 2013, Marvel withdrew the rights to the Blade Warrior series from New Line and claimed to be creating a new version of the movie or TV series, but with the sound of reboots, strandings, re-reboots, and re-strandings, the industry has decided that Marvel has no time to take care of this role for now.
However, just as everyone is about to forget this classic, the film's lead actor Wesley Snipes was asked in an interview about the future "Blade Warrior" project in an interview on the 20th anniversary of the first "Blade Warrior", and he said this:
Now that we are actively discussing this project, we are all very happy to continue to explore the story of the Blade Warrior world, and we are currently working on two projects set in that world. My team and Marvel have been talking about this subject for two years, and we're both passionate about it, and while they're still working on their plans and we have our own, but the next time you see something related to the Blade Warrior Universe, I promise: those were pediatrics compared to what we can do now.
And Marvel president Kevin also said: "We think it's going to be cool, and it won't come true one day." My tenure at Marvel began 17 years ago, during which time there were two things that brought Marvel into its contemporary form, the first being the X-Men... But a few years ago, Blade Runner was already a hot series. ”
"I learned a great lesson in that, and that was , 'It doesn't matter how famous this character is, what matters is how cool the movie looks.' This lesson may now be a few years later, why we should make movies like Star Trek and Doctor Strange. And Blade Warrior is now a classic character, and I think it would be fun if one day we came to do something about him. ”
In this way, it seems that we are still very likely to see the long-lost "Blade Warrior" on the screen again.