Blade as an allegory of sorts for the now-decades of anxiety surrounding Barack Obama’s racial and national heritage. The comparison, while specific, is solid:
Blade’s central conflicts all reflect the anxiety of purity logics rendered as a tool of oppression.
A human-vampire hybrid known as the “Daywalker,” Blade (Wesley Snipes) supposedly moves with “the best of both worlds,” which is more to say that his vulnerabilities aren’t immediately legible. In this world, the vampires have their own hierarchy of “pure bloods” (those born vampire) who laud power over those merely turned. Where Blade sees his vampirism as something equivalent to contaminate and curse (following the likeness of earlier Black vampires), Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff) sees in his hybridity the opportunity to obliterate the vampire hierarchy and seize dominance over humankind through invocation of La Magra, the Blood God, said to unleash a “vampire apocalypse.” The Daywalker’s blood is, of course, the key to this invocation.
Marvel's Blade movie to be penned by Watchmen's Stacy Osei-Kuffour
February 5, 2021 by:
Blade that will star Mahershala Ali (
True Detective), and now THR has reported that the project finally has a writer.
Watchmen series, has been tapped to write the
Blade reboot for Marvel Studios. The studio has apparently spent the last six months looking for a writer for the project and Mahershala Ali has been "directly involved" in that search. Only Black writers were being seriously considered for the gig, pointing to Marvel's focus on diversity and representation. THR notes that Osei-Kuffour will now become the first Black female writer to pen the script for a Marvel movie, while Nia DaCosta will be the studio's first Black female director with
Marvel's Blade will hit HBO Max on January 1st
December 29, 2020 by:
HBO Max has announced that Marvel's BLADE is going to HBO Max beginning on
January 1, 2021, where it will remain throughout the month. This is bound to be welcomed news for subscribers who missed out on the
Blade trilogy being on HBO Max earlier this year before it was pulled and relocated to Hulu.
Blade is considered among many to be a cult classic comic book film, much like Alex Proyas'
The Crow, and Sam Raimi's
Darkman. In
Blade, Wesley Snipes stars as a half-vampire, half-mortal man who becomes a protector of the human race, while slaying evil vampires. The film also stars Stephen Dorff as Deacon Frost, who's perhaps one of the biggest douche-pires to ever grace the silver screen. Dripping with style, while also boasting a killer soundtrack,
32 Things We Learned from the 'Blade' Commentary
"What do you do with a 900 pound vampire?" and other pressing questions, answered within...
New Line Cinema where we sit and listen to filmmakers talk about their work, then share the most interesting parts. In this edition, Rob Hunter revisits the best Marvel film… Blade.
Marvel movies are all the rage these days, but one of the best hit the big screen way back in 1998.
Blade brings the famed half human/half vampire hero to life with a stellar Wesley Snipes, plenty of attitude, and even more blood. The film is new to 4K UltraHD — and it looks absolutely terrific — so after rewatching the movie itself I dug into the supplements and listened to the commentary for the first time.