Blade - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Blade or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Blade

[chad]

Stephen Norrington said that the film as "an ode to Sam Peckinpah" and at it's heart, it was a western.

[jesus]

At 9 mins.) Blade spins and leaps onto a ledge, but it was a tricky move. They shot nearly ten takes, but each time his body bounced on the wall and he missed catching the thin ledge. They resolved the issue by having Snipes' stunt double stick the landing.

[duane]

It was Wesley Snipes' idea that the entrance to Pearl's lair be through a walk-in freezer.

[christina]

Blade first appeared in the comic The Tomb of Dracula #10 (July 1973).

[caroline]

Karen was originally going to be played by a white actress, but Wesley Snipes encouraged them to cast a black actress.

[claude]

Bruce Payne was considered for the role of Deacon Frost.

[richard]

(at around 47 mins) When Frost kills Krieger, the scene at the pool party ends, then the camera focus in a vampire rubber bat toy. The bat toy is part of a Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1994) line of action figures called "Vampire Wars", which includes an action figure of Blade. The vampire bat in the scene was a Spiderman transformed into a vampire monster action figure.

[ivan]

Stephen Norrington stated that the cause of Pearl's obese size was the creature gaining a cannibalistic lust for infants and children as he loves to eat their hearts.

[carl]

"I've found that American action films rely more on spectacle," says Wesley Snipes, "but action films from other countries don't do it that way." He adds that international action is often embedded into "the emotional state and intent of the character."

[cassandra]

[Patrick McGoohan was the first choice to play Whistler, as Stephen Norrington was a fan of The Prisoner (1967).

[phyllis]

In the original Marvel comics storyline, the character Blade was actually an Englishman - not an American.

[jessica]

The success of this film, especially since it followed the derided Batman & Robin (1997), is often considered the beginning of the rise of the superhero genre to become a dominant one in mainstream film.

[addison]

In 2015, a new Blade ongoing was announced as part of the All-New, All-Different Marvel relaunch, to be written by Tim Seeley (Hack/Slash, Grayson) and drawn by Logan Faerber, and would have featured Blade's daughter. It was cancelled when Seeley left the project, feeling that it would be yet another series featuring a Black lead written with a White creative team.

[maureen]

David S. Goyer explained in the DVD commentary that the scene where Karen touches Blade's sword was originally longer as she went on to discover a weird, hybrid infant of some kind floating in a tank. It came with a jump scare, and Goyer says "I think it would have scared the living shit out of the audience, but New Line felt it was just too horrible."

[lynn]

Blade arrived in the comics around the mid 70s suggesting his mother was bitten in the 40s or 50s, but they updated it for the film.

[kylie]

(at around 46 mins) When Krieger is killed by Frost, the movie that is playing on the television is another New Line Cinema movie: Mortal Kombat (1995).

[kenzi]

David S. Goyer says screenwriters typically find their strengths in dialogue or structure, and he thinks he's best with the latter. "I think my dialogue's okay, but in an action movie structure is absolutely king." He adds that he wishes he had cut more dialogue from the film.