Rumor: Wesley Snipes to Return as Blade?
NY Daily News claims Wesley Snipes will return to his iconic Marvel vampire-hunter franchise
It's easy to forget, but before Blade. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/137155-Friday-Box-Office-Guardians-of-The-Galaxy-Set-to-Become-1-Film-of-2014] Wesley Snipes played the title character in three theatrical features, the first two of which were box-office hits, providing a surprise career-resurgence that was cut short by his arrest and imprisonment for income tax evasion in 2006.
Now, the NY Daily News' "Confidenti@l" it was reported [http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/rose-leslie-red-hot-game-thrones-article-1.1919484#ixzz3BtzIUSAK] that Marvel does indeed have a preliminary script for a new Blade feature, though it's unclear whether said script is for a new version of the character or a continuation of the previous series.
Introduced in the pages Marvel's Tomb of Dracula #10 in 1973, Blade (real name: 90s Spider-Man cartoon [http://marvel.com/universe/Blade_(Eric_Brooks)] and the Snipes films elevated him to one of the more prominently-known African-American superheroes.
There has been no comment from Marvel Studios, Disney or Snipes as to the veracity of the report - which also claims that Snipes stands to earn a $3 million payday for the role along with a share of the profits.
Source: NY Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/rose-leslie-red-hot-game-thrones-article-1.1919484#ixzz3BtzIUSAK]
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NY Daily News claims Wesley Snipes will return to his iconic Marvel vampire-hunter franchise
It's easy to forget, but before Blade. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/137155-Friday-Box-Office-Guardians-of-The-Galaxy-Set-to-Become-1-Film-of-2014] Wesley Snipes played the title character in three theatrical features, the first two of which were box-office hits, providing a surprise career-resurgence that was cut short by his arrest and imprisonment for income tax evasion in 2006.
Now, the NY Daily News' "Confidenti@l" it was reported [http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/rose-leslie-red-hot-game-thrones-article-1.1919484#ixzz3BtzIUSAK] that Marvel does indeed have a preliminary script for a new Blade feature, though it's unclear whether said script is for a new version of the character or a continuation of the previous series.
Introduced in the pages Marvel's Tomb of Dracula #10 in 1973, Blade (real name: 90s Spider-Man cartoon [http://marvel.com/universe/Blade_(Eric_Brooks)] and the Snipes films elevated him to one of the more prominently-known African-American superheroes.
There has been no comment from Marvel Studios, Disney or Snipes as to the veracity of the report - which also claims that Snipes stands to earn a $3 million payday for the role along with a share of the profits.
Source: NY Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/rose-leslie-red-hot-game-thrones-article-1.1919484#ixzz3BtzIUSAK]
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