{"id":492124,"date":"2026-03-24T06:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492124\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T06:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:44:09","slug":"marvels-best-trilogy-is-headed-to-peacock-and-we-still-want-the-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492124\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel\u2019s Best Trilogy Is Headed to Peacock (and We Still Want the Reboot)"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there is one thing that Marvel fans want, it\u2019s more Blade. The titular Daywalker has been a fan-favorite since he first appeared The Tomb of Dracula #10 in 1973, but his popularity surged after Wesley Snipes brought him to the big screen in 1998. Marvel even announced a reboot in 2019, a film that would bring Blade into the Marvel Cinematic Universe complete with Mahershala Ali in the lead role. Unfortunately, that reboot hasn\u2019t manifested just yet but fortunately, while fans try to patiently wait for the eagerly anticipated film<\/a>, they don\u2019t have to wait to see more of the iconic vampire hunter. He\u2019s headed to Peacock<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n

Coming to Peacock on April 1st are all three films in the original Blade<\/a> trilogy. All three films \u2014 Blade (1998), Blade II (2002), and Blade: Trinity (2004) \u2014 will begin streaming on the platform as of April 1st. It marks the trilogy\u2019s return to the platform as it has previously streamed there last September, though if history is any indicator, fans will want to catch the Blade trilogy sooner rather than later, as previous stints on Peacock have been brief.<\/p>\n

The Blade Trilogy Represents Some of Marvel\u2019s Best Movies (And It\u2019s Packed With Familiar Faces)<\/p>\n

While most people think about the films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe being the best in Marvel film, the reality is that the Blade trilogy was a great series years before Iron Man\u2019s debut. Part of that can be attributed to the fact that, while Blade is a comic book movie, it\u2019s also a solid horror film, something that the movie leaned into. The first film starred Snipes as the titular hero, along with Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, and N\u2019Bushe Wright and not only established Blade\u2019s story as a half-vampire \u201cdaywalker\u201d who hunts vampires but gave him a story that appealed to audiences who had never picked up a comic book.<\/p>\n

The two sequels followed that formula, blending comic book elements with those of more classic horror to give the movies their own unique experience. The complete trilogy also featured a number of familiar faces among the overall cast. Just the third film alone (Blade: Trinity) was packed, starring not just Snipes and Kristofferson, but Jessica Biel, Parker Posey, WWE\u2019s Triple H, along with Ryan Reynolds and Dominic Purcell, both of whom would appear in other superhero properties. In Reynolds\u2019 case, he went on to appear as Wade Wilson in X-Men: Origins and would famously become Deadpool in his own trilogy of films, not to mention him playing Green Lantern in the poorly received DC film while Purcell would go on to be one of the stars of television\u2019s DC\u2019s Legends of Tomorrow.<\/p>\n

While Blade: Trinity was the end of that series of films (there was a follow-up television series titled Blade: The Series in 2006, but it was poorly received and Snipes was replaced by Kirk \u201cSticky\u201d Jones as Blade) it hasn\u2019t been the end of the line for Blade. Marvel announced that a Blade reboot was in the works in 2019 with Ali set to play the hero and, even while that film seems to be trapped in development hell, Snipes made a surprise return as the character in 2024\u2019s Deadpool & Wolverine.<\/p>\n

You can stream the complete original Blade trilogy on Peacock beginning April 1st.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Leave a comment below and join the conversation now in the\u00a0ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there is one thing that Marvel fans want, it\u2019s more Blade. The titular Daywalker has been a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[173835,96,2839,15405,1092,3842,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-492124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-blade-1998","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-peacock","tag-regular-news","tag-streaming","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}