5 Comic Book Movies That Deserve A 2nd Chance (And 5 You Should Forget)

2. Blade: Trinity

Stephen Norrington’s Blade was the first hit movie sourced from a Marvel comic and its success inspired Twentieth Century Fox to pull the trigger on a X-Men movie, whose success in turn inspired big-screen versions of Spider-Man, Hulk etc etc. It is the tiny acorn from which great things grew, so it’s sad to see the franchise being trashed in favor of cheap jokes and a set-up for the short-lived TV series.

Even sadder is the fact that the writer/director is David S Goyer, who not only helped launch the series back in 1998, but also helped bring Batman and Superman into the 21st Century. He squanders his talents on this silly, frivolous tale where Blade finally encounters Dracula (renamed “Drake” and played by Dominic Purcell), but the behind the scenes stories are more interesting than their climactic confrontation.

Relations between Goyer and Wesley Snipes were so strained that the actor reportedly threatened him on set, forcing Goyer to hire a biker gang he’d met in a strip club as bodyguards. Director and star then communicated through post-it notes for the rest of the shoot, with a stand-in fulfilling Wesley’s duties when the going got too much. Which probably explains why we never got a Blade 4…