iceberg325 said:
I think its a good idea to have someone hunt with Blade. I liked that idea. I heard there was supposed to be a spinoff movie of the nightstalkers. That is probably why they gave them so much screentime. It more of a set up for the next movie. I even heard that snipes was upset about that.
Yeah, I think Goyer wanted to use Trinity as a launching pad for the Nightstalkers franchise which was a mistake IMO.
I didn't have a problem with setting them up, but not at the expense of robbing Blade of a kickass finale. That's what I think happened.
Besides King, and maybe Abigail, the rest of the Nightstalkers were fairly lame, and a bit cliche. Even Scud, whom I detested in Blade 2, seemed more capable than the Stalkers. I think it would've been better to go full circle and bring back the Karen Jenson character-with the original actress or a recast. It would've been nice to see her again. She really knew how much Whistler meant to Blade and could've helped him cope with that, or maybe...just maybe get him to talk about it.
But the way things went down even Abigail didn't seem all that phased at her dad's murder. And Blade's period of grief was a little too short. I liked how it was done in the first movie, with him thinking of Whistler when he was tearing through Frost's troops.
There was some tension on set, and Snipes wound up suing either Goyer or New Line. That's one of the reasons he wasn't on the commentary of the DVD I believe.
The idea of Blade being hunted would be great. It was alluded to in Blade 2 with the Bloodpack. But it would be nice to see the law on Blade's ass, and perhaps a really ruthless vampire stalking him, perhaps somebody like Selene from Underworld or taking the vampire Night Terror from the Blade comics.
I personally would've liked Dracula to be brought back-not in a tomb, but perhaps from self-imposed exile-in an attempt to rebuild or reunify the Vampire Nation. And his first order of business is to take that virus and re-engineer it by combining it with his pure blood or whatever and turning it right back on the humans. Creating the bloodtide that Deacon Frost failed to do.
I would've perhaps based him a little more on the historical Vlad Tempes. Except adding a Crusade mission or an attack on the Ottomon Empire that resulted in him seeking/drinking the pure blood of Dagon, the first vampire. He became the leader of the vampires for a while, but then mysteriously disappeared. I do like how Trinity said that Drake was bored by humanity and took a deep sleep.
Perhaps it is news of the virus that brings him out of 'retirement'.
I would've change Danica Talos to Elizabeth Bathory. She and Dracula used to hang together back in the day, and she might've had a thing for him. She has become obssessed with finding him. Believing him the only one capable of putting the vampire nation back together.
Vlad, after drinking Dagon's blood, has shape shifting abilities, etc. like Bram Stoker's Dracula. No other vamp has that. He was something of an anomaly. And with each succeeding generation, they lost powers. Blade is something of a throwback. And Vlad is fascinated by him. Feels a strange affinity with him. There would be more of a connection between the two. He might see Blade as something of a brother, and actually try to convince him to embrace his vampire 'gift'.
But I wonder about his acting.
