Marvel’s First Movie Trilogy Now Streaming on Netflix
Before the Marvel Cinematic Universe, before Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man films and before the original X-Men trilogy, there was Blade . The Marvel vampire hunter essentially kickstarted the modern era of superhero movies back in 1998, and now, fans in the U.S. can relive the action as the film trilogy makes its way to streaming. The Blade trilogy stars Wesley Snipes as Eric Brooks, a half-vampire or 'dhampir' who has the strengths of a vampire but is devoted to eradicating them. Snipes played the character in three films, Blade (1998), Blade II (2002) and Blade Trinity (2004). Blade was heralded as one of the first major comic book movie successes and remains one of the few Marvel films with an R-rating thanks to its horror and violence. ADVERTISEMENT After the film trilogy, the character lived on in Blade: The Series and appeared in cartoons like Spider-Man: The Animated Series and Ultimate Spider-Man . But now audiences have the ch...