{"id":259014,"date":"2025-12-31T01:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/259014\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T01:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:16:07","slug":"2-classic-marvel-movies-now-streaming-on-prime-video-comic-book-movies-and-superhero-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/259014\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Classic Marvel Movies Now Streaming on Prime Video &#8211; Comic Book Movies and Superhero Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two classic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/tag\/Marvel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marvel<\/a> movies are officially out now on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/tag\/Prime-Video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Prime Video<\/a>, letting fans check out two of the most beloved movies predating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/tag\/Marvel-Cinematic-Universe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Marvel Cinematic Universe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What classic Marvel Movies are streaming on Prime Video?<\/p>\n<p>1998\u2019s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/tag\/blade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Blade<\/a><\/strong> and its sequel, 2002\u2019s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/tag\/Blade-II\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Blade II<\/a><\/strong>, are available now on Prime Video. The films star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/tag\/Wesley-Snipes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Wesley Snipes<\/a> in the titular role of Blade, the human-vampire hybrid hero that devotes his time to hunting vampires.<\/p>\n<p>The original film was directed by Stephen Norrington and written by from a script written by David S. Goyer. The sequel was also written by Goyer, and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. Both movies were well received, with Snipes\u2019 portrayal of Blade lasting as one of the most beloved adaptations of a comic book character to date. <\/p>\n<p>Snipes would go on to reprise his role as Blade in 2024, when he appeared in Marvel Studios\u2019 Deadpool &amp; Wolverine. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/tag\/marvel-studios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Marvel Studios<\/a>\u00a0originally announced that a Blade movie was in development at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2019.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/tag\/Mahershala-ali\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Mahershala Ali<\/a>\u00a0is attached to star as the titular character, while the cast also includes Goth; however, the project has had a hard time getting off the ground as the script has gone through a number of different iterations since it was originally announced.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, the new Blade movie does not have a release date from\u00a0Marvel. No director is attached to the project. Two other versions of Blade \u2014 Snipes in Deadpool &amp; Wolverine and Todd Williams as Blade Knight in Marvel Zombies \u2014 have appeared in the MCU since the movie was originally announced.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/author\/brandonschreur\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two classic Marvel movies are officially out now on Prime Video, letting fans check out two of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[74971,133779,18,117,19,17,1889,1892,327,3973,826,86443],"class_list":{"0":"post-259014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-blade","9":"tag-blade-ii","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-marvel","15":"tag-movie-news","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-prime-video","18":"tag-streaming","19":"tag-wesley-snipes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115811541483447744","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}