Blade is a 1998 American superhero film directed by Stephen Norrington and written by David S. Goyer. Based on the Marvel Comics character Blade, it is the first installment of the Blade franchise. The film stars Wesley Snipes as the titular character with Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson and N'Bushe Wright in supporting roles.

Blade: Directed by Stephen Norrington. With Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, N'Bushe Wright. A half-vampire, half-mortal man becomes a protector of the mortal race, while slaying evil vampires.

Blade is a superhero film and television franchise based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, starring Wesley Snipes as Blade in the film trilogy, and Sticky Fingaz in the television series.

Aug 5, 2024 · Wesley Snipes is slaying vampires — and world records! With his recent Blade role reprisal in the wildly successful Deadpool & Wolverine, the 62-year-old actor has broken not …

Wesley Snipes. Actor: Blade. Wesley Trent Snipes was born in Orlando, Florida, to Marian (Long), a teacher's assistant, and SMSGT Wesley Rudolph Snipes, an aircraft engineer. He grew up on the streets of the South Bronx in New York City, where he very early decided that dance and the theatre were to be his career.

Aug 12, 2024 · Snipes’ cameo as Blade has earned him two Guinness World Records: the “longest career as a live-action Marvel character” — 25 years and 340 days have passed between his first appearance as the...

Jul 16, 2018 · Two decades before Black Panther, the first black cinematic superhero stormed screens in 1998’s wild vampire-hunter epic Blade. In honor of its 20th anniversary, Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff...

In the middle of the carnage, the armor-clad vampire-hunter Eric "Blade" Brooks (Wesley Snipes) arrives and kills a number of vampires in the club, leaving Frost's right-hand man Quinn (Donal Logue) alive and horribly burned as the police arrive on the scene.

The Blade films are based on the fictional Marvel Comics character of the same name, portrayed by Wesley Snipes. They were written by David S. Goyer, based on the comics by Marv Wolfman, and Gene Colan.

Wesley Snipes stars in this action-packed thriller as the immortal vampire hunter Blade. Awakened to consciousness--and pain--before birth by the bite of the undead vampire that kills his mother, a young boy grows into a mythical warrior bearing a blood-curse: An almost insatiable desire for blood that he must fight every moment of every day.