10 Reasons Why The Blade Movies Still Matter
3. It Proved Superhero Movies Could Cross Over To TV
Admittedly, 2006's short-lived Blade: The Series was no TV masterpiece. Arriving so soon in the wake of the film franchise's end, its lower production values were all too evident, and leading man Kirk 'Sticky Fingaz' Jones was a poor substitute for Snipes.
Even so, what Goyer and New Line Cinema did with Blade: The Series was, in its own way, something new for the comic book movie genre. Set sometime after the events of the movies, it set out to continue the story and take it into new places, as the Daywalker forms an alliance with an Iraq war veteran (Jill Wagner) who has just been turned into a vampire, and agrees to enter into the vampire underworld as a double agent.
No, it wasn't a great success creatively, nor did it go down too well with audiences, hence it was cancelled after only 13 episodes. Even so, it demonstrated that movie universes could be fleshed out further on the small screen.
In the years since, Marvel expanded their cinematic universe onto television with Agents of SHIELD, Agent Carter and the Defenders shows on Netflix; whilst DC have arguably enjoyed far greater success with their small screen work (Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, and most recently Black Lightning) than they have with their theatrical features.