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Rumor: Will Blade prequel center on Deacon Frost?
It's easy to forget that before Stephen Norrington's original 1998 Blade movie, Wesley Snipes was perhaps best known to sci-fi fans as the blond psycho Simon Phoenix in Demolition Man, and vampires were mainly adolescent dreamboats a la Buffy.
But the original Blade added a much-needed dose of bad-assery to the genre and created a durable (if somewhat faded) franchise that helped Marvel become the movie powerhouse it is today.
Now comes word that Norrington is planning a Blade prequel of sorts to feature the character of Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff), and that Dorff is the guy who came up with the idea.
Norrington confirmed the news, first reported in the Sunday Mail, to Comics2Film:
Dorff told UK's The Sunday Mail that the new movie would be "a prequel to the Blade movies, Deacon's story. It's a new trilogy the director has created. It will [be] cool."Norrington confirmed the news although said the movie is "not exactly how the article describes but close."
The director credits Dorff with coming up with the idea for the new project, which "has evolved into a very interesting story."
For his part, Norrington hasn't done much of note since the truly awful League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in 2003. The director told Comics2Film that he'll take up the Blade prequel after finishing work on a reinvention of the Crow franchise.
By Bluesman at 2:12 AM ON 07/07/09
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen wasn't that bad. It could have been worse, it could have starred Will Ferrel...
By kev74 at 2:22 AM ON 07/07/09
Could be a cool if done right. The original Blade was great, and I think Stephen Dorff's character had something to do with that.
By FRY-TANK at 3:19 AM ON 07/07/09
Please be better than Blade Trinity... out of all the possible stories they could of told, why that story line was chosen as the best is beyond me. It was the same formula as the previous two. : (
Also why does someone have to reinvent "The Crow" franchise? is it really necessary given the poorly attempted sequels.
By REDante at 5:20 AM ON 07/07/09
Just as long as its nothing like David Goyer's Blade Trinity, or blade the tv show, seriously, both of those killed the franschise.
The problem with Blade Trinity, you let Goyer direct, 2nd.....Blade vs Dracula, (a 2 dimensional Dracula that tries to be too much like the Kurgan from Highlander while wearing a GWAR costume), The Tv show shouldve been on HBO, that way they wouldve had more cool action instead of mediorce action with too much talking and bad scripting.
Seriously its all about putting science to the vampire mythology, evolving them into a new breeds of Vampires, thats why more and more people are loving Blade 2, plus it helps Del Toro directed it.
So heres hoping they can bring the franschise back, and maybe make atleast one more sequel to forget Blade: Trinity so we can have a real Trilogy.
By oneil at 9:17 AM ON 07/07/09
I agree with Bluesman, Take a second look at League. On fist viewing I also thought it was awful but after a second viewing recently I think it's actually in the "good" arena. I think it's a B-movie masquerading as a serious film. There's an intentional lightness I missed the first time around. Most reviewers got this one wrong.
By Curt at 9:30 AM ON 07/07/09
League wasn't bad. But the *only* thing good about the two Blade sequels were the mid-level badass bad guys Ron Pearlman (Blade 2) and Paul "Triple H" Levesque (Blade Trinity). And don't even get me started on how horrid the Crow sequels were!
By budgethero at 9:48 AM ON 07/07/09
oh no, "reinventing the crow franchize" uugg. ok ok, he did good with Blade so ill wait and see. but dude, just be careful.
By loninappleton at 5:13 PM ON 07/07/09
Here come da judge,
"Bailiff, whack his peepee"
By M at 6:49 PM ON 07/07/09
Ah more "re-makes", "re-boots", and "Franchises", Hollywood at it's best
By Spork at 11:28 PM ON 07/07/09
I really dug Norrington's "The Last Minute." Well worth checking out.
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