Having a hard time seeing Hoskins as Wolverine, but I do like the guy. Good actor for sure.

I remember reading about this in the early days of Wizard magazine. Bassett would have been perfect as Storm. Hoskins as Wolverine.....

Sounds good, other than Hoskins are Wolverine. Bigelow's a good director, would love to see her tackle a CBM someday.

@Nomis Not like it is now and not as dark and realistic. Blade paved the way, even though people like to point to Spider-Man and X-Men. Yes, Burton's Batman was dark but realistic? No.

Hoskins would've been great as Wolverine. Not the matinee Broadway idol playing him now. Anyone thinking otherwise probably only knows Wolverine from the movies and not the real mccoy from the comic books

@kevberg - Take it from this Black guy, he STILL IS a failed Blaxpoitation character. I ran a comic shop for over seven years and drew comics for a living for over 6 years. None of my clack comic friend ever liked the character or the stupid film and we've been collecting since the 70's when Blaxpoitation was in its hey-day! Blade is mainly popular with white dudes and his comics fails to sell every single time as well as his movies fail to break the basic $100 million mark in its own country!

YOur comments are purely out of delusional fandom for the character. The real fact is his films were a bigger flop than the Fantastic Four movies and DareDevil!

The perfect X-Men movie would an Age Of Apocalypse but instead of Like The graphic novel it's a story that goes make to reboot all the mistakes made in the previous films.

And lets get facts straight!

Nomis was right about Superman being the first comic book film to put superheroes on the "to be taken seriously" map. Before Superman in 78, every single superhero film was cheesy crap. Superman not only managed to deliver drama to a universal audience despite still being a little cheesy but it was also successful in huge box office receipts unheard of for a comic book movie in its day and age.

Not until Tim Burtons Batman did anything like the success of Superman even begin to pique the general public interest and that was Dark and way more realistic than any Batman before it for the cinema.

Blade made no significant change to the public's opinion of superheroes because the public largely ignored it at the cinemas worldwide and internationally. Blade fans however seem to have their own delusional ideas!

Bryan Singers X-Men even though made on a ridiculously small budget and tight time frame, managed to deliver a superhero film that again piqued the public's interest in superheroes and led the way to the trail of yearly superhero flicks Hollywood has churned out to this very day. Hate it or love it, it made the studios sit up and take notice and it was a financial success due to its insanely low budget of $75 million!

Nolan's Batman is the only Superhero film to reach audiences where no other comic book film has before in terms of delivering realism as well as drama, performances and cinematography worth of cinematic acclaim and awards. No comic book movie in history has ever made over $1billion worldwide and trust me this year its the only one that realistically can do it again unless Avenger does even better than all the movies of its individual characters and then some!

Hoskins would have made a great Wolverine...........for a radio program! The guy was waaaaaay too fat and old to play Wolverine. While he might have the right intensity he has the wrong physical make for the role.

Hoskins woulda been awesome!

Personally I loved the first Blade movie - if you'd seen the garbage Marvel allowed to be created from their characters - and Blade showed a glimmer of hope in the possibility of a well-made movie. I'm also white, so I wouldn't dare comment on the accuracy of Blade to black culture - however, I'd just like to make this point; Solely because of Marvel comics, at 9-years of age, in the UK, I became aware of the writings of Malcolm X (a reference in an Avengers comic) and Apartheid in South Africa (referenced in a Fantastic Four comic - of all places - when The Thing refused to enter the country via a segregated queuing section) from this I discovered aspects of racial inequality which didn't feature in my life up to that point. In every cloud - a silver lining.