I’m a sucker for comic book movies! Here a synopsis I found at upcominghorrormovies.com about the new blade flick. It looks like it’ll be dumb with a lot of kicking and hurting. I love it.
Blade joins forces with two vampire hunters part of a group called the Nightstalkers as they tackle the powerful and ruthless villain Danica Talos. After harvesting the superior blood of the ancestor of all modern vampires, Talos has resurrected the man now known as “Drake” from a century-long sleep in the hopes of finally getting world control for all vampires. Blade, along with the band known as the Nightstalkers must stop them from unleash a virus that will kill all the vampires— but only are given one chance to make it work.
The vampire hunters must fight a vampiress named Danica—played in an unlikely bit of casting by indie darling Parker Posey—and her gang, which includes pro-wrestler-turned-actor Triple H, otherwise known as Paul Michael Levesque. And there’s a dangerous new villain, played by former John Doe star Dominic Purcell, called Drake, which is short for Dracula. “The vampires … [have] been looking for the sort of progenitor of the vampire race, who’s Dracula, but he’s seven, eight thousand years old,” Goyer said. “The whole idea is that Drake, Dracula, was also like the genesis of the Dagon, the Sumerian god, stuff like that. … He’s sort of like the patient zero of evil. … The vampires are looking for him, because he’s dormant and he’s a daywalker” and the potential source of something that will allow all bloodsuckers to bear the light of day.
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Meanwhile, vampires have convinced the FBI and local police that Blade and Whistler are menaces to society, Goyer added. That’s where the Nightstalkers come in. “It becomes apparent that Blade and Whistler are forced to go on the defensive so much that they need reinforcements,” he said. “And the reinforcements are the Nightstalkers, which is sort of Whistler’s contingency plan, as he’s been training, on the side, this group of vampire hunters, with his daughter.”
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