evil Stepfather site JoBlo.com continues its Blade Trinity
(read my review of the film here) jamboree with an
interview
with writer and director David S. Goyer.
Here’s a teaser of the
tap dance that took place. Just click the
bottom link to read the whole thing.
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Why did you decide to set the movie in modern America?
I just thought it would be… One aspect
of the first BLADE that I liked more than the second BLADE was that the second
one became so underground and insular, that we barely had any humans in the
second BLADE. I thought some of the fun moments in the first BLADE were the
times where Blade interacted or kinda spilled over into the real world, so I
thought let’s make the whole movie that. I do think that’s where we get a lot of
the humor in this film.
Patton Oswalt, who also stars in the movie, said he was
pulled in by you to do a punch-up of the script.
What we did was, I’m friends with Patton
and a lot of the writers for “The Simpsons,” and things like that and I had them
in one day to do a little comedy punch-up. And I wish I would have filmed that
session, because you had a bunch of writers for “The Simpsons” acting out the
script as Blade, being very fey when he was doing it. It was pretty funny.
Anyway,only three jokes came out of that session, shockingly. I expected more.
The script was pretty funny already. More jokes came out of Ryan and I getting
drunk a bunch of nights and embellishing the script later on during production.
What did Wesley think of you “funnying up” the BLADE
franchise?
There was some humor in the first BLADE.
And Wesley had script approval, so we couldn’t have moved forward without him
signing off on it and everything like that. He was down with the joke and he was
clearly playing the straight man in the film, but I think he does a good job of
it.
Did the MPAA have issues with any of the jokes?
No, amazingly. I didn’t think we’d get
the “C” word past. Although they seem to use it all the time in Europe,
particularly in England. But no they had no problem with that. The film wasn’t
nearly as gory as the second film. Or as bloody.
How much did you let Ryan improvise?
It’s hard to figure out exactly. It
wasn’t so much Ryan improvising as much as Ryan and I embellishing. What we
would do was we would write half a dozen jokes for each scene, and we would just
try all the various alternates.
Do you have any great outtakes that will end up on the
DVD?
Yeah, there is a blooper reel for this
film, which we never had for the BLADE films before. I don’t want to oversell it
– it’s not the funniest thing you’ve ever seen in your life, but there are a few
quite funny outtakes.