As far as superhero movies go, very few are quite as important as the Blade trilogy. The fact is, when the franchise began in 1998, superhero films were largely seen as a joke. Batman and Robin put an end to the DC film series in a major way, and Bryan Singer’s X-Men was still a ways off. New Line took a big risk making a movie out of Marvel’s half-vampire hero, with them even going so far as to turn it into an R-rated vehicle for action hero Wesley Snipes. Before it came out, people assumed it would just be a routine New Line action movie, in the vein of Mortal Kombat or Spawn, but it wound up being a significant hit. It was followed by an even bigger sequel, Guillermo del Toro’s Blade II, before the franchise case to a premature end with Blade: Trinity.

In this deep dive, we take a chronological look at the franchise, from its early days as a mid-level New Line movie, through it becoming a franchise and, eventually, going disastrously awry. With a Marvel reboot on the way (eventually) now is the perfect time to revisit this iconic series.
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