Before the MCU and Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man movies and Fox’s X-Men films, the only successful Marvel movies was the Blade trilogy starring Wesley Snipes.
Interestingly, Wesley Snipes also revealed that Blade was not his first choice of character from Marvel Comics to bring to the big screen.
We have wonderful product that we will bring to market, and if I can rock with Marvel, that’s great.
Long story long, we didn’t end up making it, the rights went back, converted back, and then Blade came along.