Now Playing Magazine caught up with "Blade" scribe/helmer David Goyer at the Television Critics Association press event in Los Angeles today, where he discussed the bloodsucker's attempt to break into the cable TV market in the form of a two-hour TV movie turned likely pilot to air on Spike TV.
Goyer explains that since television obviously allows the Blade writers to further flesh out the universe that the character lives in - through multi-episode arcs as opposed to being constrained to a two-hour feature film every few years - the proposed series will as a result depict aspects of Blade's past that we've yet to see on screen - "Clearly, the point of going into the TV show is that we can explore more of his background, more of his history from the time he was first on the streets, even before he met the Whistler character. It's a pretty hard-edged show. It's certainly harder-edged than anything that can be on network television, which is also fun".
Also expect to learn more about the vampire world - "One of the things that the fans always seemed to be really interested in were all the inner workings and machinations of the vampire world... [It's] treating vampires sort of like the ultimate crime family. Blade realizes at the beginning of the pilot that he's not making much headway just sort of hacking and slashing... that he needs to know more about their inner workings and hierarchy".
