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Blade
Blade (1998)
The power of an immortal. The soul of a human. The heart of a hero.
Credits
Title Blade
Directed by Stephen Norrington
Written by David S. Goyer
Produced by Avi Arad; Stan Lee; Joseph Calamari; Lynn Harris; Michael De Luca; Robert Engelman; Peter Frankfurt; Wesley Snipes; Jon Diven; Andrew J. Horne
Music by Mark Isham
Cinematography Theo van de Sande
Edited by Paul Rubell
Distributed by New Line Cinema
Marvel Enterprises
General Information
Release date(s) August 21st, 1998
Film Rating R
Running time 120 min.
Country USA
Language English
Budget $45,000,000 [1]
Gross revenue $131,183,530 [2]
Preceded by
Followed by Blade II (2002)


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Notes & Trivia[]

  • The character of Blade was created by writer Marv Wolfman and artists Gene Colan and Jack Abel. He first appeared in the "His Name Is... Blade!" story from Tomb of Dracula #10 in July, 1973.
  • Principal photography on Blade began on February 5th, 1997 and concluded on June 6th.
  • Filmed in Long Beach, California, Moscow, Russia, Vancouver, British Columbia and Death Valley National Park in California.
  • Blade was first released on DVD by New Line Home Video on December 22nd, 1998.
  • Director Stephen Norrington makes a cameo appearance as a vampire in this film.
  • Deacon Frost, as presented in this film, is radically different from his Marvel Comics counterpart. The comic version of Deacon Frost was created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan and first appeared in Tomb of Dracula #13.
  • The character of Abraham Whistler was actually introduced in the 1994-1998 Spider-Man animated series. To date, he has no canonical Marvel Comics counterpart, although they are based on Jamal Afari
  • This is the first time that Blade is ever given a proper name. A quick shot of his mother's driver's license in the beginning of the film establishes his surname as Brooks and later in the film, his mother calls him Eric. Marvel Comics has since retroactively established Eric Brooks as Blade's real name.
  • A recreated set of the Blood Club was built for Halloween Horror Nights theme attraction at Universal Studios.
  • Traci Lords, who plays the vampire Racquel at the beginning of the film, is a former adult film star.

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