Blade - The hunt continues
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Blade - The hunt continues |
| Original title | Blade: The Series |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| year | 2006 |
| length | 45 minutes |
| Episodes | 13 in 1 season ( list ) |
| genre | Mystery , action , science fiction |
| idea | David S. Goyer |
| production | Gordon Mark |
| music | Ramin Djawadi |
| First broadcast | June 28, 2006 (USA) on Spike |
| German-language first broadcast |
June 11, 2007 on ProSieben |
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Blade - The Series (Original title: Blade: The Series ) is an American science fiction - television series in 2006. The series is an adaptation of the Blade comics from Marvel that already has the same name movie trilogy with Wesley Snipes in the lead role. Blade - The Hunt Goes On was produced by Marvel Studios in collaboration with New Line Television for the American cable broadcaster Spike . The television series follows on from the successful feature film trilogy, but with the US rapper Kirk “Sticky” Jones in the role of the superhero Blade, who, half vampire and half human , fights against a shadowy realm of vampires. The script came from David S. Goyer , who was also responsible for the scenario of the feature films.
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The "Daywalker" Blade, a cross between a human and a vampire, whose mother was bitten by a vampire shortly before he was born, is now fighting with the weapons specialist Shen against vampires who are making the streets of Detroit unsafe. Although vampire blood flows in him and he thus has enormous powers and abilities, he does not have their weaknesses. It is immune to sunlight, garlic and silver.
The series begins in Moscow. Blade confronts and interrogates a vampire in uniform. He learns that bodies are being exported to Detroit to a vampire named Marcus Van Sciver. He then kills him with a decidedly casual saying.
Blade goes to Detroit, where he moves into quarters with his comrade-in-arms and weapons technician, Shen. At the same time Krista Starr comes back home, she served as a sergeant in the Army in Iraq and was wounded there. She does not yet know that her brother Zach has become a victim of the vampire leader Marcus Van Sciver. He was a familiar (English for “confidante”, a human servant of the vampire society) with Van Sciver and had sniffed around too much for his taste. While Blade is already making Detroit unsafe (at least for vampires), Krista learns that her brother has died. She comes across the corrupt detective Brian Boon, who works for Van Sciver. He offends her with his arrogance and incompetence and she begins to investigate herself. She comes across traces that point to the vampire society, but she doesn't know what to do with them and turns to the somewhat confused Professor Melvin Caylo, whom she does not believe at first when he tells her about vampires.
Only after a failed murder attempt, which is thwarted by Blade, does she accept that there are vampires. She starts looking for Blade, but he finds her first and offers to help him. At the opening of a gallery she is supposed to subjugate Markus Van Sciver with a tracking device. Because he is running a research project of unimagined dimensions and Blade wants to find out what it is about. Another interesting character is a nameless vampire girl who keeps appearing, but keeps out of confrontations.
Episode list
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast in the USA | German language first broadcast (D) | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Welcome Home | Pilot - Part 1 | Jun 28, 2006 | Jun 11, 2007 | Peter O'Fallon | Geoff Johns & David S. Goyer |
| 2 | 2 | The transformation | Pilot - Part 2 | Jun 28, 2006 | Jun 18, 2007 | Peter O'Fallon | Geoff Johns & David S. Goyer |
| 3 | 3 | The Ash Laboratory | Death Goes On | Jul 5, 2006 | Jun 25, 2007 | Michael Robison | David Simkins |
| 4th | 4th | The player | Descent | Jul 12, 2006 | Jul 2, 2007 | John Fawcett | Adam Targum |
| 5 | 5 | Bad blood | Bloodlines | Jul 19, 2006 | Jul 9, 2007 | Felix Enriquez Alcala | Geoff Johns |
| 6th | 6th | Pregnant with evil | The Evil Within | Jul 26, 2006 | Jul 16, 2007 | Michael Robison | Daniel Truly |
| 7th | 7th | Confinement | Delivery | Aug 2, 2006 | Jul 23, 2007 | Alex Chapple | Barbara Nance |
| 8th | 8th | Deadly cure | Sacrifice | Aug 9, 2006 | Jul 30, 2007 | David Straiton | Chris Ruppenthal |
| 9 | 9 | Old love | Turn of the screw | Aug 16, 2006 | Aug 6, 2007 | Norberto Barba | Barbara Nance |
| 10 | 10 | Familiar enemies | Angels and Demons | 23 Aug 2006 | Aug 6, 2007 | Felix Enriquez Alcala | Adam Targum |
| 11 | 11 | The White Prince | Hunters | Aug 30, 2006 | Aug 13, 2007 | Brad Turner | Geoff Johns |
| 12 | 12 | monster | Hunters | Aug 30, 2006 | Aug 13, 2007 | Ken Girotti | Daniel Truly |
| 13 | 13 | The conclave | Conclave | Aug 13, 2006 | Aug 20, 2007 | Alex Chapple | David S. Goyer & Daniel Truly & Geoff Johns |
Production information
In early 2006, this television version was designed by Blade, which aired as a television series with a two-hour pilot film on the American cable channel Spike TV. Over 2.5 million viewers followed the series launch in June 2006 in the USA, so that the station's expectations were initially significantly exceeded. Nevertheless, the series did not succeed in attracting viewers, so that the series was canceled after one season as the audience ratings fell. After another broadcast in the form of a broadcast marathon on a night broadcast, in which the series was shown uncut for the first time, Spike TV was able to record a 40% increase in viewership. There was also a consistently positive response after the broadcast in other countries.
On September 28, 2006, Jill Wagner (aka Krista Starr) announced that she had been informed that there would be no second season of the series. The next day, producing television station Spike TV announced that the series had been discontinued.
Web links
- Blade - The hunt continues in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Episode list