Blade: The Series
I don’t know if it was a premonition or something, but the other day I sat and done some thinking about the Blade franchise. There were some rumors about a spin-off starring the Nightstalkers (featuring Jessical Biel and Ryan Reynolds) that were introduced in the third chapter of the Blade trilogy, Blade Trinity. It’s by finding an article on GateWorld.net that I found out that Spike TV would be airing this brand new flick: Blade: The Series. Now all things considered that doesn’t have to be a bad thing, thinking about shows starring vampires have been successful by the past (Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) but this new series is bad news. I found the trailer (~27MB) after some research and I was actually laughing at the end of it. Short after I was sad to realize it was not a SNL spoof video. Spike TV is not a high budget channel and what I tough is that they got the rights for Blade at some real cheap price. I usually don’t judge a book by it’s cover, nor a series by it’s trailer; but this looked real bad! It looked like a cheap set and camera effects taken from 24. Besides the fact that Blade is not played by Wesley Snipes but by Kirk Jones is a disappointment for any sort of fans. Up to now the series recap is summed up like this:
- Blade teams with a woman named Christa, whose brother was murdered by vampires.
- Blade, the half-human, half vampire slayer tackles another case of vampires and demons running wild on the streets. Further details will follow. (and goes on for all other episodes)
Hoping that series will give a decent job to actors and cameraman tune-in on June 28th to see what that series has to offer. Don’t have Spike? That’s not the show that will make me get them on cable!