Blade - The Film That Kick-Started The Marvel Movie Invasion
With Mahershala Ali set to reinvent Marvel's Daywalker, the original Blade's Stephen Dorff explains how playing a megalomaniacal vampire did wonders for his profile.
Stephen Dorff shakes his head and sighs. “I’d made some pretty good movies before I made Blade. The Power Of One, S.F.W., I Shot Andy Warhol - you know, I’d played Stuart Sutcliffe in Backbeat, I’d worked with Jack Nicholson on Blood And Wine. But the impact of that one movie, Blade, was extraordinary. People just love their vampire stories, I guess.”
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