Speaking with Hero Realm, Director David Goyer and actors Ryan Reynolds & Jessica Biel talked up "Blade: Trinity" and in the process discussed some of their upcoming stuff.
When asked about reinventing "Batman" by penning "Batman Begins", Goyer says "If anyone ever does an origin story again, this one will be the first. The thing about doing a prequel is it just wipes the slate clean. You can just pretend those films never existed. And certainly we will do a Joker story or a Two-Face story later on, but we won't be beholden to the films that came before. We finished filming in September, and Chris Nolan is putting together his rough cut. He'll have it done around the end of the year.
It doesn't look anything like the first Tim Burton movie. It is dark, it is serious, but it's not gothic. I did like the first Burton film, but a lot of points of reference for that film are early expressionist films like "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"or "Metropolis". Where as our points of reference are all real. Gotham doesn't look like a made up city, Gotham looks like it could absolutely exist. It's sort of a fusion of Baltimore, New York and Chicago. We filmed alot of exterior scenes in Chicago, so it wouldn't look like a backlot film, and it wouldn't look like some over art-directed movie. I feel like the subsequent "Batman" films just became really cartoonish and over art-directed".
In regards to the "Blade: Trinity" DVD, Reynolds says "Full commentary actually. David, Jessica and myself, and I think they have some commentaries from some of the special effects guys...This movie has many, many different endings, and they'll all be on the DVD for people to check out".
Jessica Biel spoke quite a bit about her part in Cameron Crowe's "Elizabethtown": "I shot only for about six or seven days the last couple of weeks. It's basically about this young executive at a shoe manufacturing company who builds this amazing shoe he's been working on for eight years. He spends eight years grueling over this shoe, and spends all this money on the shoe, and it gets recalled. And his life just literally goes to crap. And then something personal happens in his family and he has to go home and be with all these family members that he's not really known before. He is going there to handle this tragedy and he meets this woman on a plane, and they start this quirky sort of interesting relationship over the phone, and they end up falling in love. And I just play a very small part. This kid, Orlando Bloom, I play his girlfriend just as he has this horrible thing happen to him in his professional life, and I basically just dump him. That's what I do. He spends the rest of the movie still in love with me trying to get me back until he meets this other woman, and kind of gets me out of his mind". Finally Reynolds and Goyer talk about doing a "Flash" movie here and here.
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