Blade is a 1998 American action horror film directed by Stephen Norrington with a screenplay by David S. Goyer based on the comic books created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan for Marvel Comics.
This film spawned three sequels: Blade II, released in 2002 and Blade: Trinity, released in December 2004, and the television series Blade: The Series 2006, whose pilot episode is titled Blade: The Next Generation.
Blade is an immortal avenger whose mother took a vampire bite and died in childbirth. Contaminated by the superhuman strength of the vampires, which penetrated his blood, he will fight to save the Earth from the power of the vampires, with the help of the legendary hunter Whistler.