1998 års serietidningsadaption av Marvels Blade står sig än idag som en av de absolut bästa och mest pricksäkra comic book-rullarna som någonsin gjorts och detta har enligt manusförfattaren David S. Goyer mycket med David Fincher att göra, som skrev på för att regissera Blade efter att han slutfört Alien 3 (och strax innan Seven). Finchers visuella stil hjälpte sen Goyer att skriva om och förbättra manuset (som sen regisserades av Stephen Norrington), något som han pratat om i podcasten Happy Sad Confused:
"I developed a draft with Fincher before he had done Se7en. I think he had done Alien 3 and maybe he was developing Se7en. I developed a draft with him. I remember going to our producers office... There was this giant conference table. Fincher laid out 40 to 50 books of photography and art with post-it notes inside them. He said, 'This is the movie.
Fincher took us on a two-hour tour around the table of the aesthetics of this scene, that character. It was such a fully fleshed out visual pitch... I had never seen something like that before. A lot of that thinking infused my further revisions."