If only it had been next week I would've gone myself. Sadly whilst I missed a visit to the editing suites of the third "Blade", LA reporting stalwarts 'Smilin Jack Ruby' and 'Clarence Beaks' from CHUD and AICN respectively got to go and the director spilled quite a lot of new details on what to expect:
At least 400-450 effects shots in total are being done.
Whilst some stunts have been augmented by CG, there are no totally CG stunts like there were in the second film.
Wire-fu won't be too evident, Goyer is opting for more practical fighting and FX.
They're already a month ahead of schedule effects wise
The first cut of the film was 2.5 hours. It now runs just over two.
This film is the one most set in the real world, so Blade has the FBI & cops after him. He's also talked about in the tabloids.
A deal has been made with all the actors playing the 'Nightstalker' vampire hunting characters to do a spin-off film.
The 70,000 Dracula character named 'Drake' is in fact the origin of much of ancient myth such as the Sumerian god Dagon. He also calls what Bram Stoker wrote 'bad PR'.
Dominic Purcell plays the shapeshifting Drake whose bones can be seen moving about under his skin whenever he shifts shape.
James Remar shot his role as an FBI agent for eight days.
The final sequence has Blade & co. tearing apart around 100 vampires or so, Goyer is aiming to triple the amount of carnage seen in the end set pieces of the first two films.
Natasha Lyonne plays a biochemist developing a bioweapon to wipe out the vamps - and she need's Drake's blood to do it.
An expanded version of a cut scene from the first film will appear here, vamps have put humans in comatose states and are bleeding them. Sort of a disturbing take on the way battery hens produce eggs.
The opening will be a big car/bike/shootout chase scene.
Goyer has reintroduced both scares and dark humour that were missing from the second film.
Finally two new shots of Van Wilder himself Ryan Reynolds have appeared, the usually thin boy having stacked on around 24 pounds of muscle for the role of 'Hannibal King':
Thanks to 'SJR' & UHM.
