Greetings BD readers, Brian (the new guy) here with a bit of Blade Trinity Action! Also a bit of insight into Amityville Horror and Batman Begins. We got bits and pieces from interviews with Ryan Reynolds, David Goyer and Rza of Wu Tang. I'll spare you the inane questions that prove why People Magazine is literature for the illiterate or the questions about Ryan Reynolds being a hunky piece of man-arse and try and stick to what's actually of interest... you're welcome.

First up was Ryan Reynolds, after some brief introductions it was right into the meat and potatoes.

"The dress is nice, I make a great woman," Ryan Reynolds commented, acknowledging that his character is the damsel in distress. "Hannibal is the one getting the beat down, the tough guys are Jessica Beil and Parker Posey." Ryan's natural sense of humor put my own worries about the updated character of Hannibal King to rest, "I Think Hannibal King is a lovely foil for Blade, Blade is so damn serious all the time. He looks like he's gonna turn you into some sort of ass-meat if you say one more horrible quip. The thing I love about Hannibal King is that he's this super hero, he's the tough guy, but he's vulnerable. As a kid I would watch the Rockferd Files and the thing I loved was when Jim would punch a guy and hurt his hand and it really related to that- I wanted to imbue some of those traits into that character. You feel like you're in capable hands, he's going to take you somewhere interesting. That's something we really wanted to bring to life and I think we did."

"I learn from every experience, I embraced the thought of acting more, of taking on a role and leaving myself behind and there are moments of that in Blade, not necessarily in the torture scene that's just vintage me." Ryan gave a little insite when I asked him how his experience with Blade helped him prep for Amityville, "Michael Bay saw Blade and came to me for Amittyville, I just wanted to jump into George Lutz and honor that character and actually do some real acting for a change. There's not alot gore or blood in Amittyville, it's based more on the Jay Anson book than the movie. But I wear contacts every day that make my eyes red, blood shot and wasted, and I wore contacts alot in Blade so it prepared me for that, constantly having blood in your mouth prepared me as well." Would Ryan stay with the horror genre; "No, probably not, I never even look at them as genres, I just look at them as great characters. I love sci-fi, but I don't think you can really do horror over and over can you? I mean I don't remember Bela Lugosi as the beef, I think you've got one in you, unless they do a sequel, we can't do a sequel to Amityville thank god, and that's in my contract. Although I'm sure Meg Ryan would like them to re-interpret the 3rd one."

So what's coming up for Ryan in the genre, we could be seeing another comic book movie. "Avi Arad called me into his office after we were done shooting and said 'Ryan I want you to play DeadPool, you've got to do DeadPool, I don't know how we'll do it but we'll do it." Not to mention the Nightstalkers spin off movie. "New Line sees it as a new franchise for them, there's alot of interesting characters in there like the Midnight Sons and all these other guys who are really interesting and they see it as something they can mine out this new franchise. David and I talked about doing the story together, he doesn't need any help from me but I defiantly hope to collaborate with him on that. But at this point it's such conjecture, it's something we're not even thinking about."

DAVID GOYER
Next up David Goyer, his first stop of seven cities in eleven days, "A lot of people say, "It sounds really fun," but it's not really, it's no vacation."

"I think one of the things audiences connect with in the Blade movies, is that they are not the standard Hollywood cheeseball. Oh we have Jessica Biel in it so we have to have a love story and she has to get it on with someone. We didn't have Blade do that in the previous films and Abigail is supposed to represent where Blade was in the first movie, she's this shut down ball of anger that is venting that anger by killing a lot of people, and it seems like it would be pandering to have a love story between them." Goyer was very adamant on that point when asked about the relationship between Ryan Reynold's character and Jessica Biel's. "I try to be sensitive to our audience, Blade's never going to do Shrek style business, I try to be sensitive to what our audience will accept and what they won't."

As far as his relationship with Wesley Snipes, "My relationship with Wesley hasn't changed in ten years. There's mutual respect, we have a great working relationship, he's a very private man, I see him every couple of years for the Blade movies and that's it." And what about the method acting and how that helps the film, "It works, one of the reasons I think people like the Blade movies is that he's kind of a jerk, he's a person who is not trying to save the world, he's trying to kill vampires and saving the world incidentally. One time I got a letter from him once on set signed Blade, but it works, all the stuff between Hannibal King and Blade was going on between Ryan and Wesley. The place where Wesley starts putting his imprint in, is in the action sequences, in the weapons, the use of them, the design. It was his idea that Blade shouldn't shoot his serum anymore that it should be some sort of inhaler, in the first film it was his idea that his sword should be booby trapped."

"I was interested in doing a flip on the Vampire genre, and I wanted to do a Black super hero, cause there certainly hadn't been any in film." Says Goyer when asked how he got into the idea of doing Blade. "I'm into characters who are emotionally conflicted cause I am emotionally conflicted, I don't identify with Superman, I identify with Blade, I identify with Batman, I identify with the Crow, I identify with those who wrestle with demons. For me Batman is more interesting than Superman because of that and we really go into that dark place in Batman Begins, it's really about obsession and what would make a person do that."

Speaking of Batman Begins, how did Goyer get involved with Batman Begins, "The first Batman film came out when I was in college, I was happy when it came out, but saddened cause I thought I wasn't going to be able to do one. I liked it but it wasn't the Batman movie I would have done. I had made peace with the fact that I wasn't going to be able to do one. I had heard rumblings that they were going to try again, but they were never getting off the ground. One day about a year and a half ago Chris Nolan called, he said 'I'm doing a Batman movie and I want you to write it.' I was already in pre-production on Blade and I told him you don't know how long I've been waiting for this but I can't do it, but if I could this is how I would do it, these are the villains I would use. Then he called me back and said 'You have to do this, we need to figure out how we can do this." If you ever had doubts about Christian Bale being Batman, let not your hearts be troubled, cause Goyer is gonna put them to rest, "I think Bale is at the same level that Tobey Maguire was at with Spiderman, people had some idea of him so we could really imprint Batman on him. There are three rolls with Batman, there's the public Bruce Wayne, the private Bruce Wayne and Batman. We'd find people who were good at playing the private Bruce Wayne, or the public Bruce Wayne, or Batman and Chris could do all three."

What does Goyer think about the crop of genre films made by those who couldn't care less for the source material, and yes I was trying to get him to indulge in my favorite past time of Uwe Boll, Paul Anderson bashing. "I think you get a crappy movie, I'm not going to name names, but I think we can all think of movies that have happened. The nice thing now is that the kind of movies I like to make are envouge, Comic Book movies are envouge. In the old days people who made comic book movies were thumbing their nose, they were embarrassed to a certain extent, it had to be aping the old Batman show with the BAM, BIF, POW. One of the nice things now is that you have a generation of film makers, whether it's Raimi, Del Toro, or myself who grew up reading DC or Marvel and wrote to the editors and loved them as source material and none of our mothers made us sell our collections and that's why you're getting better movies. People say to me 'how do you know what to use or to change or what not to change' I think I'm a pretty good bell-weather on what to change and what not to change cause I know the source material and can quote any obscure DC or Marvel comic just like any fanboy out there. When we were doing the first Blade during the scene where Blade gets captured and described it as a "Kirby" Machine after Jack Kirby and Norrington knew exactly what I was talking about. When we were working on Blade 2 we would reference that this was a Mignola thing and this was a Richard Corbin thing, we had that shorthand. The thing that's interesting to me is that Comic Book movies have become a new genre that has been accepted by the audience as a whole. It's like a western or a space opera, it's a whole new genre and with Spiderman 2, and X2 being so embraced by fans, they get the rules of comic book movies and I think they're here to stay."

And the last word on starting the Nightstalkers spin off anytime soon, "No way, well, we want to see if there's an appetite for it."

RZA
And then when I thought it was all over I was offered chewing gum by Rza from Wu Tang Clan.

"You don't mind if I chew my gum do ya? I brought enough for everyone, you want any?" Rza is probably one of the most relaxed rap artists I've ever seen. How has Rza been enjoying his new occupation as a film composer and where is he taking the score this time around, "It's been super exciting, it's not an easy job I will admit, but a fulfilling job, it feels like an achievement. The difference between movies and albums is that movies have sort of an immortal life to them. This soundtrack is going to be totally different than the other soundtracks. The soundtrack still has the euro sounding stuff on it, but then you have the more classic feel, there's a song called "Thirsty" that sounds like it was produced by Isaac Hayes so you have the soul feel to it, you get your hip-hop dose to it, it's a more balanced soundtrack. It's the kind of CD you can turn it on and let the party go, mess around, have a drink, a smoke, some sex and a dance."

Blade Trinity comes out December 8th.