When Goyer first pitched the idea of doing a Blade film, New Line Cinemas asked that Blade and his mentor Jamal Afari both be cast as white instead of black, which Goyer rejected. Casting Wesley Snipes speaking at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California. Snipes stated that while such a character "isn’t going to lend itself to a great deal of emotional depth", there is also "some acting involved in creating the character and making him believable and palatable". Goyer's drafts early draft took a "post-modern approach" he compared to the films From Dusk till Dawn and Vampire in Brooklyn. Goyer wanted to take the character seriously and pitched a trilogy of movies"almost Wagnerian in scope", saying that "I'm going to pitch you the Star Wars of black vampire films", wanting to demystify vampires and treat them as serious villains with a greater sense of realism instead of the doomed romantic characters shown in Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire. New Line originally wanted to do Blade as "something that was almost a spoof" before the writer convinced them otherwise. When Goyer heard a film was in development he went in to pitch director Ernest Dickerson. Blade was eventually set up at New Line Cinema, with David S. Marvel Studios then started to develop the film in early as 1992, when rapper/actor LL Cool J was interested in playing the lead role. When New World Pictures bought the rights to Marvel Comics, they were set to make a Mexico-set western starring Richard Roundtree (who would later portray Blade's father in Blade: The Series) as Blade. The character Blade made his first appearance as a supporting character in The Tomb of Dracula #10 (July 1973), written by Marv Wolfman with art by Gene Colan, his first solo story coming in the black-and-white horror-comics magazine Vampire Tales #8 (December 1974), and his first solo series (in color), Blade the Vampire Hunter, being published from July 1994 to April 1995 across ten issues, written by Ian Edginton and Terry Kavanagh, with art by Doug Wheatley. Daniel Kibblesmith writing the perspective of the interpretation of the Wesley Snipes version of Blade he created for The Darkhold: Blade. From here on out, every last drop of blood in this city-in this world-belongs to Blade. A world that's already lost doesn't need protectors. Sharpened myself into what the world needed me to be. Snipes' portrayal of the character received significant critical praise, described as the "quintessential black superhero Black Panther", with the first film starring him receiving a cult following and beginning Marvel's film success, setting the stage for further comic book film adaptations. In October 2021, Marvel Comics writer Daniel Kibblesmith wrote one-shot The Darkhold: Blade which follows Snipes' version of the character. After discussions to have Snipes reprise the role in a crossover film with the Underworld film series and the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) fell through, Mahershala Ali took over the role. Following two further sequel films starring Snipes: Blade II (2002) and Blade: Trinity (2004), Fingaz was cast to replace him in Blade: The Series in 2006. Goyer, and was ultimately integrated into comics as well in 1999, retconning Blade's original origin Blade's redesigned costume was also integrated. A variation of this storyline was integrated into Spider-Man: The Animated Series by John Semper in 1995 ahead of the first Blade (1998) film being made, adapted from an early script for the film by David S. Unlike the comics, in which Blade was depicted as a green-suited human immune to vampire bites, Blade is depicted as a sunglasses and leather-wearing dhampir (a vampire immune to usual vampire weaknesses at the cost of ageing normally), who gained his abilities after his mother was bitten by a vampire while giving birth to him. Blade, born Eric Brooks and also known as The Daywalker, is a fictional character primarily portrayed by Wesley Snipes and Sticky Fingaz in the New Line Cinema Blade franchise, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name created by writer Marv Wolfman and illustrator Gene Colan.
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