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Blade Trinity LATEST NEWS 11/22/04 Goyer also scripted a scene where Blade was racing his black 1968 Dodge Charger, but it was never filmed for budgetary reasons and because the production moved to Prague. He was quoted saying... "We never really used the Charger in any real kind of action sequences, and I always loved that sequence. I literally took that nine-, 10-page sequence and made it the beginning of this movie. It was its own thing, and so it would work in either [film]. ... This whole long extended car chase scene, where Blade is in the Charger, there are vampires in cars and on motorcycles with machine guns, it's just mayhem, and the cars are rolling over and exploding, and he's running vampires down. ... I'm a big fan of the car chases in The French Connection and Bullitt, so it was done very old-school. I like it. It's got this kind of '70s feel to it. It's decidedly not Michael Bay." It was also said that Goyer liked the "offbeat humor" in the first Blade movie, but missed it in the sequel, so he went on to say that "sort of dark, f--ked-up sense of humor is in this movie." 2/25/04 He then went on to say... "Every single ounce of fighting in the film, they did. When people see it, they're just not going to even question that it will be credible. Ryan put on 24 pounds of muscle. You'll see. He's unrecognizable. And Jessie lost weight and basically looks like Linda Hamilton in [Terminator 2: Judgment Day]. They were both amazing. And Dominic Purcell, who plays this king vampire, trained for this sword fight at the end of the film, and it's all him." 2/24/04 The rest is quoted from the article: The vampire hunters must fight a vampiress named Danica—played in an unlikely bit of casting by indie darling Parker Posey—and her gang, which includes pro-wrestler-turned-actor Triple H, otherwise known as Paul Michael Levesque. And there's a dangerous new villain, played by former John Doe star Dominic Purcell, called Drake, which is short for Dracula. "The vampires ... [have] been looking for the sort of progenitor of the vampire race, who's Dracula, but he's seven, eight thousand years old," Goyer said. "The whole idea is that Drake, Dracula, was also like the genesis of the Dagon, the Sumerian god, stuff like that. ... He's sort of like the patient zero of evil. ... The vampires are looking for him, because he's dormant and he's a daywalker" and the potential source of something that will allow all bloodsuckers to bear the light of day. Meanwhile, vampires have
convinced the FBI and local police that Blade and Whistler are menaces
to society, Goyer added. That's where the Nightstalkers come in. "It
becomes apparent that Blade and Whistler are forced to go on the defensive
so much that they need reinforcements," he said. "And the
reinforcements are the Nightstalkers, which is sort of Whistler's contingency
plan, as he's been training, on the side, this group of vampire hunters,
with his daughter." 2/20/04 "It was quite a long haul," says Goyer of the 18-week shoot, "but you know, I had a really great experience. I loved it, I'm quite missing Vancouver." "I was just going to write and produce. Before (producer) Lynn Harris suggested that I direct, it never occurred to me," says Goyer. "But I immediately put on my director's hat and said, 'Well, let's see how the script turns out.'" So. How did the script turn out? As expected, there's a lot of action. "We had a lot of big stunts, more than the other films. We blew things up, smashed a lot of cars. We blew up, smashed and shattered $170,000 [US] in glass alone. "The big surprise for me was that it turned out quite funny, it has quite a bit of comedy. That's why I decided to cast a lot of people that had improvisational backgrounds or comedic backgrounds." In addition to Snipes, Kris Kristofferson returns as Blade mentor Whistler. Newbies include Jessica Biel (7th Heaven) as Whistler's daughter, Vancouver's Ryan Reynolds (Van Wilder) as a vampire hunter in cahoots with Blade, Parker Posey (Best in Show) as the head vampire and wrestler Triple H as her sidekick. "I was really pleasantly surprised by Triple H," says Goyer. "(Others) were very keen on bringing him in but I wasn't a giant WWE fan. But he turned out to be completely professional, dedicated and humble, and very funny with great comedic timing. We ended up writing more scenes for him." Snipes didn't surprise Goyer. He declined to detail the star's notoriously bad behaviour but stories about Snipes' partying, carousing, fights, tantrums and tardiness were legendary on the set. "I am going to try and be as diplomatic as possible," says Goyer. "There has always been drama on the Blade films and this one was no different. We prepared for drama . . . and there it was." Will he work with Snipes again? Long pause. "Yeah," says a resigned-sounding Goyer. Will there be a Blade 4? "Wesley told me
when we did the second one that he thought he only had one more in him
but you never know. We'll see. I always conceived of three films and
there is a definite ending to this. I don't want to cheat (by opening
it up again). On the other hand if it does $150 million, then . . .
we're all whores." I love the action stuff, that's my favorite part of doing "Blade: Trinity." It's a blast to come to work every day and not worry about lines and actually think about choreography instead. It's completely different for me. You're playing Abigail, the daughter of Blade's trainer and confidant, Whistler... Abigail is Whistler's daughter, so she's really mentally strong and kind of a closed-off person because she's had all this death in her family because of the vampires. I think she feels the need to [pursue] a lot of vengeance for her familiy. She's more of a stoic character-but incredibly smart and incredibly able, trained and deadly with her weapons. But she just does her job and moves along. She doesn't take it all in though; she just lets it all roll off of her. There are some vulnerable moments for her, but she's very stoic. What's it like to have Kris Kristofferson playing your dad? We never actually see Whistler and Abigail together in this movie. I never get to shoot with Kris. But they don't have a close relationship simply because he's been training Blade and she came to him when she was probably about 18 or so and said, "This is in me, this is part of my blood. I want to be part of this fight." So she's been training separately in secret, but he is her mentor. He's her hero. She puts him on a pedestal. And as the movie goes on, Abigail begins to see Blade as a father figure because all her life she's heard about Blade. And here's this guy, who her father trained for years, and knows her father better than even she does. She idolizes him. You and Ryan Reynolds, who plays Hannibal King, are the Nightstalkers. Any chance of a spin-off movie? I'd definitely do a Nightstalkers movie. I think that's the plan in fact, if this movie does well, that Ryan and I will do a Nightstalkers movie. It'll be a Hannibal King and Abigail movie. How do you and Hannibal hook up in the film? You actually save his sorry *ss, don't you? Abigail is off killing some vampires
and finds Hanibal King. She saves him because he's already been turned
into a vampire. She brings him into her team of people and trains him.
At this point in their relationship, they're a lot like brother and
sister-this is her family. It's a family of vampire hunters, but they're
still a family. 12/08/03 Biel plays a member of a team of vampire hunters who step in to help Blade when his base of operations goes offline. Beil continues saying... "The second their station gets infiltrated, it completely automatically shuts down and when that station shuts down, our station comes up. Me, Ryan Reynolds and Natasha Lyonne. ... So we have this cool young group of people who have been training without Blade knowing. And since his computer is shut down, ours are up and ready to go, and we come and we rescue him, basically." She said she'll be doing most of the fighting and stunts herself and wanted to look as realistic as possible doing them. She goes on to say... "What was important to me was to see a woman as an action star or playing a part that requires a lot of physicality who is not just skin and bones. I don't believe that. I don't believe that this woman could pick up these two guns and realistically shoot this guy, shoot this guy, then side kick and roundhouse kick this guy if there's no muscle. So I thought that the character needed to really be built so the audience could be like, 'Wow, this girl looks like she can really do this stuff.'" 9/25/03 |
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