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Blade II
Movie poster for Blade II
Directed by	Guillermo del Toro
Written by	Screenplay: David S. Goyer Comic Book: Marv Wolfman Gene Colan
Starring	Wesley Snipes Kris Kristofferson Ron Perlman Thomas Kretschmann Leonor Varela Danny John-Jules Luke Goss
Music by	Marco Beltrami
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release date(s)	March 22, 2002
Running time	117 min.
Language	English
Budget	$55,000,000 (est.)
Preceded by	Blade
Followed by	Blade: Trinity
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Blade II is a 2002 vampire action movie starring Wesley Snipes and Kris Kristofferson. It was directed by Guillermo del Toro. This movie was the most successful of the Blade film trilogy, making $80 million in the United States and $150 million worldwide.

Taglines:

• Know The Mark.
• One Man Still Has The Edge.
• One man is still the cutting edge.
• Last time he fought against his sworn enemies... this time he will fight with them.
• Faster. Sharper. Deadlier.
• When Evil Strikes, One Man Still Has The Edge.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Soundtrack 4 Production Notes 5 See also 6 External links

Two years have passed since the ending of the first film, and Blade has been keeping himself busy in the hunt for Whistler, who failed to kill himself in the original. He has been sweeping across Russia and eastern Europe searching for his old friend and mentor, enlisting the aid of a young man named Scud to design him a new line of equipment and weapons. Blade fights his way through a large gang of vampires, leaving a bloodsucker named Rush alive, yet telling him he'll be back for him. Finding Whistler locked in a tank of blood by a cruel gang of vampires who were keeping the old man alive for purposes of torture, Blade rescues him and brings him to Prague.

Meanwhile, a crisis has arisen in the vampire community. What seems to be a more developed strain of vampirism (dubbed the "Reaper virus") is sweeping through their ranks, giving its carriers fearsome new powers and features. The original carrier of the strain seems to be Jared Nomak, a one-time vampire who appears to have mutated into a creature even more dangerous - one that prefers the blood of vampires to human blood, in the process transforming his vampiric victims into Reapers themselves (albeit far less stable).

The Reapers bear a certain resemblance to Blade, being far stronger than common vampires and lacking an allergy to silver, but they also possess radical physical mutations: three-way jaws, leech-like tongues and hearts encased in a thick layer of bone at the front and back – in short, their only vulnerability is ultraviolet light. However, all these advantages are countered by an incredibly fast metabolism - they must feed almost constantly to avoid starving to death. It is why they prefer vampire blood to human blood - it possesses even more nutrition. And for all Reapers save Nomak, it is a losing battle - they still sicken and die shortly after being turned.

In order to combat the virus, the vampire elder / overlord Eli Damaskinos and his familiar servant Carter Counan (a lawyer) send their minions Asad and Nyssa (who is Damaskinos' daughter) to find and strike an uneasy treaty with Blade, convincing him with the argument that though vampires kill humans for food, they do so only in a controlled fashion. Reapers are even more dangerous as they feed almost constantly and once they finish the vampire population, they will doubtlessly descend on humankind. Whilst Blade may hate vampires, the Reapers are far more dangerous and neither side can attack them without uniting first.

To this end, Blade teams up with the Bloodpack, a group of vampire warriors and assassins who were originally assembled to kill Blade. The vampires are Reinhardt, Nyssa, Asad, Priest, Chupa, Lighthammer, Snowman and Verlaine. Reinhardt (Ron Perlman), challenges Blade with a racist insult:"Can you blush?" After Blade goads him, Reinhardt attacks him, but Blade sizes him up, attaching a bomb to the back of his head, promising to kill him if he gets out of line. Setting their mutual hatred aside, Blade leads the Bloodpack in the fight against the Reapers and the investigation into their origins. During this time, Blade forms something of an intimate relationship with Nyssa, the daughter of Damaskinos and member of the Bloodpack. In the nightclub, Blade and the Bloodpack battle the Reapers, the Bloodpack vampire Priest being bitten and killed as he changes into a Reaper. Lighthammer is also bitten but does not turn.

In the sewers, Blade splits the team into groups. Reinhardt and Chupa corner Whistler, and Chupa proceeds to savagely beat Whistler for the death of Priest: "We lose a partner, and Blade loses one!" Reinhardt abandons Chupa, hunting for more Reapers. Whistler releases a batch of Reaper pheromones into the air in a bid to save himself. After a severe beating, as Chupa is about to finish Whistler off with an M16A3, the Reapers attack and maul Chupa to death, allowing Whistler to escape. Meanwhile, Lighthammer transforms into a Reaper and feeds on, and kills, Snowman. His lover Verlaine gets him to chase her up a manhole, so that when she removes the cover, both of them are killed by the sunlight. When the Reapers kill Asad, it's left to Reinhardt, Nyssa, Blade and Whistler to escape.

After a climactic battle, Blade activates a UV Bomb that incinerates all the Reapers except Nomak who passes information along to Whistler. Blade is apprehended by Damaskinos' forces, along with Whistler and Scud. As it turns out, the Reaper strain is not a virus at all, but rather a genetic experiment gone wrong. In his efforts to replicate Blade – a day-walking silver-immune vampire, Damaskinos had numerous experiments performed on Nomak, who is in fact his estranged son. He remarks that Nomak was the first carrier of the strain but ultimately flawed, seeing as he was vulnerable to daylight, as were all the other carriers whom he'd infected. Damaskinos then reveals another horrible truth — he has been creating many more vampire prototypes, intended as the next step of vampire evolution, all of them kept in fetal form in a massive incubator. All they require now is Blade's biological make-up to give them protection from the sun, and the vampire nation will all be Daywalkers. In order to extract this, Damaskinos plans to have Blade killed and dissected.

During his captivity, Blade attempts to activate the pre-placed explosive in Reinhardt's skull, but Scud reveals that the bomb (which he himself had crafted) was never designed to go off. He himself is in fact one of Damaskinos' familiars and planned to side with the vampires rather than fighting against them. Figuring that it would all be over for the human race once all vampires were immune to daylight, he decided "[he] would rather be a pet than cattle." However, Blade has a trump card - he has always suspected Scud's servitude to Damaskinos, and his backhanded double dealing. Activating a second switch on his remote, Blade kills the unfortunate Scud, who unluckily happened to be holding the bomb at the time. After Whistler rescues him from the dissection (after escaping from Reinhardt with a gun himself) by killing the familiar watching over Blade, Blade fights his way through Damaskinos' henchmen, and after bisecting Reinhardt with his sword, heads towards the lead vampire himself while Whistler destroys the vampire fetii by shooting them.

Meanwhile, a vengeful Nomak has entered Damaskinos' stronghold, seeking revenge on the father who mutilated him and turned him into the first Reaper. Just before he can escape, Damaskinos is betrayed by Nyssa (who became disillusioned with her father's extreme methods) and killed by Nomak. In order to "complete the circle", Nomak also bites Nyssa and then makes to leave, whereupon he is confronted by Blade. After a very physical fight scene, Blade finds the weak spot in Nomak's physical defenses and jams his sword beneath his arm, penetrating his heart from the side, bypassing the bone shield on his heart. Blade then falls to the floor, nearly finished due to broken ribs and internal bleedings sustained during the fight. Severely injured, Nomak crawls away and props himself up against a pillar. He is mortally wounded, so he puts himself out of his misery by shoving the broken sword the final inch into his heart. Before he dies he comments that “it hurts no more” (during the film the Reaper Virus seems to cause him great pain).

With Nomak dead, Blade then carries Nyssa outside for the sunrise at her request, where she disintegrates in his arms before she becomes a Reaper.

In the film's final scene, the vampire Rush is in a London strip club, preparing to make use of one of the booths. However, as soon as the curtains open, he is shocked to find Blade on the other side of the glass, who casually remarks "You didn't think I'd forget about you, did you?", and stabs his sword into his skull.

Actor	Role	Notes
Wesley Snipes	Blade	The main character of the film, who is forced to join forces with the Bloodpack in order to eradicate the reaper threat.
Kris Kristofferson	Abraham Whistler	Blade's friend and mentor, who Blade rescues and brings to Prague, who joins Blade and the Bloodpack to destroy the reapers.
Ron Perlman	Reinhardt	The leader of the Bloodpack and member of the group who despises Blade with a passion, more so than any of the other members of the group. Is of German descent, and their tension when first meeting results in Blade attaching a bomb to the back of his head.
Leonor Varela	Nyssa	Daughter of Eli Damaskinos and unknown sister of Jared Nomak. Nyssa serves as a love-interest for Blade throughout the film.
Norman Reedus	Scud	Blade's new tech-assistant
Thomas Kretschmann	Eli Damaskinos	Vampire overlord and father of Nyssa and Jared Nomak, the first reaper.
Karel Roden	Carter Kounen	Familiar and lawyer of Eli Damaskinos.
Luke Goss	Jared Nomak	The main villain of the film, brother of Nyssa and son of vampire Overlord Eli Damaskinos.
Matt Schulze	Chupa	Vicious and brutal member of the Bloodpack, who shows animosity towards Whistler more than Blade.
Danny John-Jules	Asad	African-American member of the Bloodpack.
Donnie Yen	Snowman	Japanese member of the Bloodpack
Marit Velle Kile	Verlaine	Member of the Bloodpack
Tony Curran	Priest	Friend of Chupa's and member of the Bloodpack.
Daz Crawford	Lighthammer	Verlaine's lover and member of the Bloodpack.
Santiago Segura	Rush
Xuyen Valdivia	Jigsaw
Marek Vasut	Golem

A soundtrack was released the sametime as the movie and released by Virgin Records

1. "Blade (Theme from Blade)" by Marco Beltrami & Danny Saber
2. "Cowboy" by Eve & Fatboy Slim
3. "I Against I" by Mos Def & Massive Attack
4. "Right Here, Right Now" by Ice Cube & Paul Oakenfold
5. "Tao of the Machine" by The Roots & BT
6. "Child of the Wild West" by Cypress Hill & Roni Size
7. "The One" by Busta Rhymes & Dub Pistols
8. "We Be Like This" by Jadakiss & Danny Saber
9. "Gorillaz on My Mind" by Redman & Gorillaz
10. "Tonight the Stars Revolt" by Powerman 5000
11. "Gangsta Queens" by Trina & Groove Armada
12. "PHDream" by The Crystal Method
13. "Rasied in the Hood" by Volume 10 & Roni Size
14. "Gettin' Aggressive" by Mystikal & Moby
15. "Mind What You Say" by Buppy

Trivia sections are discouraged under Wikipedia guidelines. The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and removing inappropriate ones.

• The sunglasses worn by Blade in the movie were a pair of Oakley Four S.
• The movie is slightly disconnected to the first film. At the end of the first film, Blade is working with Dr. Karen Jensen to help him fight the vampires, and she has been a pivotal figure throughout the original Blade. However, she has disappeared in this movie, and no mention of her existence is ever made.
  • Although Dr. Jensen is not mentioned, the film makes a passing reference to Deacon Frost (the antagonist of the previous film), and that Blade's killing of him did Damaskinos a favour.
• Originally, Blade & Nyssa were to have a sex scene; both Wesley Snipes & David Goyer state this on the DVD's commentary.
• Blade: Trinity's opening chase sequence was originally planned for Blade II, but was scrapped because of budget concerns.
• In the film, the character Scud's t-shirt bears the logo of the B.P.R.D., the fictional organization from the Hellboy comic book series and film. Guillermo del Toro would later direct the film adaptation of Hellboy, with Ron Perlman (who plays Reinhardt in Blade II) as the title character. Also, Mike Mignola (the artist, writer and creator of the Hellboy comics) also worked on some of the conceptual art of Blade II. Karel Roden, the Czech actor who would play Rasputin in Hellboy, is one of the villain's henchmen in this film.
• Donnie Yen, who played the mute Blood Pack vampire Snowman, choreographed three of the fight scenes in Blade II.
• The car that Blade drives in the beginning of the movie is a 1968 Dodge Charger 440. With 2 lights added in the middle of the grill (Remarkable Nations)

• Blade, The predecessor to this movie.
• Blade: Trinity, The sequel to this movie.
• The Blade Trilogy

• Official Website
• Blade II on Marvel.com
• Blade II at the Internet Movie Database
• Blade Movies hype at SuperHeroHype.com
• Blade II Script at Horrorlair
• Information on the Blade II Easter Egg
• Variety Lawsuit Article

v • d • e The Blade Series
Films: Blade • Blade II • Blade: Trinity TV Series: Blade: The Series Related Topics: Blade • Vampires • Weaponry of Blade

v • d • e Steve Gerber
Marvel Comics	Man-Thing • Shanna the She-Devil • Sub-Mariner • Daredevil • Crazy Magazine • Tales of the Zombie • Supernatural Thrillers: N'Kantu, the Living Mummy • Marvel Two-in-One • Adventure into Fear: Morbius, the Living Vampire • Son of Satan • Lilith, Daughter of Dracula • Defenders • Howard the Duck • Omega the Unknown • Marvel Presents: Guardians of the Galaxy • Void Indigo • Avengers Spotlight: Hawkeye • The Sensational She-Hulk • Poison • Foolkiller • The Legion of Night
DC Comics	Metal Men • Mister Miracle • Weird War Tales • The Phantom Zone • Doctor Fate • Nevada • A. Bizarro • Superman: Last Son of Earth • Hard Time • Zauriel
Other	Codename: Strykeforce • Cybernary • Destroyer Duck • Eclipse Magazine • Exiles • Sludge
Television work	Thundarr the Barbarian • Dungeons & Dragons • G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero • Mister T • The New Adventures of the Puppy • Star Trek: The Next Generation - Contagion • Superman: The Animated Series • The New Batman Adventures
Adaptations	Howard the Duck (film) • Man-Thing (film)

v • d • e The films of Guillermo del Toro
Cronos • Mimic • The Devil's Backbone • Blade II • Hellboy • Pan's Labyrinth • Hellboy II: The Golden Army

v • d • e Marvel Comics films
Live action	Single films	Howard the Duck (1986) • The Punisher (1989) • Captain America (1991) • The Fantastic Four (1994) • Hulk (2003) • The Punisher (2004) • Man-Thing (2005) • Ghost Rider (2007) • Iron Man (2008) • The Incredible Hulk (2008) • Punisher: War Zone (2008) • Thor (TBA)
	Series	Blade: Blade (1998) • Blade II (2002) • Blade: Trinity (2004) Daredevil: Daredevil (2003) • Elektra (2005) Fantastic Four: Fantastic Four (2005) • Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) Spider-Man: Spider-Man (2002) • Spider-Man 2 (2004) • Spider-Man 3 (2007) X-Men: X-Men (2000) • X2 (2003) • X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) • X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) • Magneto (2009)
Animated	Single films	The Invincible Iron Man (2007) • Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme (2007)
	Series	Ultimate Avengers: Ultimate Avengers (2006) • Ultimate Avengers 2 (2006) • Next Avengers (2008)