Blade’s Wesley Snipes Reflects On His Reps Telling Him To Turn Down The Superhero Movie

The boom of comic book movies today is often traced back to the success of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man and the first X-Men movie in the early 2000s. However, the first Blade movie, starring Wesley Snipes as the vampire hunter, came out in 1998– and that movie was such a hit it spawned a pair of sequels. While not always recognized as an early Marvel movie, Blade was actually made a more popular character thanks to the success of the films. They also made Snipes a bigger star, which makes it somewhat shocking to learn that people didn’t want him to take the job.