APE IN A CAPE: Blade

APE IN A CAPE: Blade:

big-wired:

gailsimone:

It’s weird how the Blade movie has kind of been removed from Marvel cinema history.

Maybe I’m mistaken here, but Marvel’s recent, and well-deserved success is no secret. But whenever people talk about what a juggernaut Marvel movies have become, we keep hearing that it was Iron Man that ‘started…

Yes, this. Blade showed movie studios that superhero movies could turn a profit, so it makes it that much more frustrating that Marvel Studios won’t make a Black Panther movie because it’s ‘too hard.’

Heck, DC Comics owes Blade a lot too. It would have been a lot harder for them to get another Batman movie done had Blade not been around.

I can understand uninformed journalists making this mistake…Iron Man is more recent and the success of the Avengers gives people short memories.

But I see it even from comics journalists who should know better. Why reserve the first successful Marvel franchise from the narrative? It just seems weird. The X-men movies in particular owe a LOT to Blade.

I don’t think it’s Marvel itself, just the journalism narrative. Readers seem to remember BLADE in its proper place in cinema history more than journalists do.