Following Wesley Snipes’ tenure as the vampire hunter, a new version of Blade is coming to the big screen.

A lot of Blade’s popularity is thanks to Wesley Snipes’ portrayal.

Even Marvel didn't really expect 1998's Blade film to be such a hit - and the movie led them to transform the comic book character, too!

A fan-made poster for the Marvel Cinematic Universe's upcoming Blade movie imagines what Mahershala Ali would look like as the iconic daywalker.

The superhero movies today can be traced back to X-Men and Spider-Man. But there’s another film that exists in an odd middle-ground between campy superhero and something more gritty and realistic, which is 1998’s Blade. The story of a black half-human, half-vampire who hunts vamps and can survive daylight spawned a trilogy with 2002’s vastly superior Blade II and the pretty atrocious 2004 Blade: Trinity. Wesley Snipes starred in all three films, but when interest died off, Marvel relaunched the character on TV with Blade: The Series in 2006 starring Sticky Fingaz. …