Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to another edition of a Nerdificent and
Speaker 1: one half of your host, Danny Fernandez, sitting across from
Speaker 1: me in very bright pink. No, yeah, that's me. If
Speaker 1: you away, it's a flame and hot pink. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: ready to rock at all time. What is that shirt
Speaker 1: from Undefeated? Oh yeah, so it's a nice shirt. What
Speaker 1: am I wearing? I'm wearing this dope Marvel shirt. I'm
Speaker 1: rubbing the ladies. Yeah, holding it down for lads and Marvel. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a rainbow shirt, you know, very very on brand now,
Speaker 1: very on brand, and Marvel's Marvel's embracing it there. They're
Speaker 1: like it's time. I think Tom Holland said something about
Speaker 1: like that Spider Man could be queer in the future.
Speaker 1: I'm down for it. We're ready if he we We
Speaker 1: normally start our podcast with what we're seeking out about.
Speaker 1: I know, yeah, I feel like we dedicated a whole
Speaker 1: episode to that, which was the Comic Con episode. But
Speaker 1: if I was to add anything else to what I'm
Speaker 1: speaking out about, You're gonna be able to tell by
Speaker 1: what I'm seeking out about just simply based on the
Speaker 1: episode that you're listening to right now, which is Blade.
Speaker 1: We decided what the next step was. I was like,
Speaker 1: we gotta do Blade. I'm super excited and this one's
Speaker 1: going to be like an O g Ner difficent Word's
Speaker 1: just me and Danny, I know. Um, Before we move on,
Speaker 1: I want you to know a personal story that when
Speaker 1: I was like six, Um, I think we're flying to
Speaker 1: Disney World. Uh, and Wesley Snipes was on my plane?
Speaker 1: So what front of my parents? And my parents asked um,
Speaker 1: because they were this, by the way, kind of annoys
Speaker 1: me whenever, Like I guess maybe like when people book,
Speaker 1: sometimes you can't get seats near you. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I just know. UM. Side note, I was trying to
Speaker 1: sit with my partner and we had like specifically paid
Speaker 1: to sit together going to Hawaii, which is a you know,
Speaker 1: not a short trip. And then somebody was like, hey,
Speaker 1: can my kids sit here? And I was like, we
Speaker 1: literally paid extra so we could sit together to go
Speaker 1: to Hawaii together. But sure, UM, I'm going to sound
Speaker 1: like a complete um a whole, but you have kids,
Speaker 1: so I can say that, um because I'm saying it
Speaker 1: literally to someone that has a kid. Could be like
Speaker 1: that lady who's mad at women who go to Oh,
Speaker 1: that's hilarious. It goes both ways. She was like, I
Speaker 1: can't believe all these people that don't have kids are
Speaker 1: taking up space. And that is such a very specific
Speaker 1: parental entitlement that I often see in every parent forum
Speaker 1: or board or Facebook group where it's like the world
Speaker 1: has to stop because I have a child, And I
Speaker 1: was like, no, that's not how things work. Also, again
Speaker 1: just to remind everyone, Brad Bird, who you know makes
Speaker 1: up a large portion of Pixar peer um, said that
Speaker 1: it's not just for kids. His movies are not for kids,
Speaker 1: like there for everybody, and he hate when you call
Speaker 1: them kids movies. So but I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: Just I don't know what to do. What if he
Speaker 1: answer this question for me? If you did pay extra
Speaker 1: so that you could sit with your partner and then
Speaker 1: someone wants their kid to sit in that seat who
Speaker 1: didn't pay extra, And then I felt horrible. Um, I
Speaker 1: also had like massive anxiety and um would I would
Speaker 1: sometimes fly with Molly, my dog, who's also uh an
Speaker 1: yes a, and um it just was I was just
Speaker 1: like I did all the things I was supposed to
Speaker 1: do too. Yeah, oh no, there's nothing wrong with that
Speaker 1: because as a parent who has flown many times with
Speaker 1: their child, you sholl out the money to make those arrangements.
Speaker 1: Like that sounds like somebody who went on with the
Speaker 1: hopes of like oh, no one's gonna which is uh,
Speaker 1: which is a jerk move trying to I was trying
Speaker 1: to replace the word that I originally wanted to say
Speaker 1: uh with something that we can say on the pot.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's a jerk move to like expect because
Speaker 1: there and there are parents like that, like I'm look
Speaker 1: like when I read everyone was laughing about that parent
Speaker 1: and I was so unsurprised. I was like, oh no,
Speaker 1: there's this parent. Like if you ever want to even
Speaker 1: look into the eye of the mall or the Gateling
Speaker 1: mall of like entitled parents, look into the l a
Speaker 1: mommy's group or it is a fight club of mothers
Speaker 1: ripping each other apart with you know, like I remember
Speaker 1: um uh Naomi's mom uh Aurora like was on the
Speaker 1: the the page and it was like asking like one
Speaker 1: one mom was like, hey, I'm having trouble breastfeeding. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking of putting her on the formula And that started
Speaker 1: the biggest fight. Yeah, they're like you should keep trying.
Speaker 1: And some moms were like, no, if you're uncomfortable and
Speaker 1: you're having a hard time, nothing's wrong with formula. And
Speaker 1: it was just a war zone. I bet yeah, that
Speaker 1: one that that topic in particular really gets something, gets
Speaker 1: a lot of feisty ese that have a lot of
Speaker 1: opinions about kids that aren't there's um if you want
Speaker 1: to go into a feisty area. I I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know this about me, but I ran I'm
Speaker 1: such a Disney nerd even before I was in Disney.
Speaker 1: But I ran a Disney half marathon and a full
Speaker 1: marathon because if you run both, this is something geeky.
Speaker 1: If you run both in the same year, you get
Speaker 1: a big medallion of Walt and Disney, Walt and Mickey,
Speaker 1: which is the statue that you see when you walk
Speaker 1: into Disneyland. Um so I ran one in Disney World,
Speaker 1: I ran a full marathon and then I ran a
Speaker 1: half marathon at Disneyland. It's called the Coast to Coast Challenge.
Speaker 1: And because of that, I was a part of a
Speaker 1: group called Run Disney, which has like thousands of followers,
Speaker 1: and they are so caddy, they are so like they
Speaker 1: have nothing better to do with their time. And if
Speaker 1: they find this out, I'll probably be kicked out. But
Speaker 1: like they it blocked, they block each other. I saw
Speaker 1: one post that was like, you cannot block admins out
Speaker 1: of this group. Like it was just wild. It'll be
Speaker 1: stuff like someone will be like, hey, I ran the
Speaker 1: Twilight Zone Tower of Terror thing and I didn't like
Speaker 1: the border that they gave me. Can we like change
Speaker 1: the border of the picture. And people will be like,
Speaker 1: can we change the border of the picture like the
Speaker 1: SpongeBob thing? And I'm like, you guys are grown adult
Speaker 1: what the heck? Also, how annoying must you be to
Speaker 1: like just constantly run like marathons? Okay? Um, that was
Speaker 1: something I did when I was younger because I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I wonder if my body can do this? Um, and
Speaker 1: I probably damaged my body forever. May also wonder if
Speaker 1: it can be both a human and a vamp. No,
Speaker 1: I didn't geek out about the thing I was geeking
Speaker 1: out about. Well. I forgot to mention in our comic
Speaker 1: Con episode that um, dragon ball Z actually broke a
Speaker 1: Guinness World record. Did you see that? Yeah, so they
Speaker 1: had one for the biggest kam attack they got. I
Speaker 1: don't know, let's see what they what they had, it
Speaker 1: was nearly um, eight hundred fans that gathered to beat
Speaker 1: the record. I think that was two fifty. But they
Speaker 1: also did it on a Wednesday, so I think if
Speaker 1: they had done it on Saturday, it would have been
Speaker 1: like thousand, well over, like maybe two thousand, three thousand,
Speaker 1: who knows. Uh. But yeah, so they broke that, which
Speaker 1: is cool, and congrats to them. And you know what
Speaker 1: else there might be vampires and drama. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I was trying to Yeah, yeah, today we're talking about Blade.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's the will cut straight to that chase.
Speaker 1: I'm hyped for the new movie. But we're gonna go
Speaker 1: down the history of the character. Definitely going to talk
Speaker 1: about those Wesley Snipe movies and you know, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, just in just all about it, just in
Speaker 1: our in our brains, in our life. We never got
Speaker 1: to finish my story, which was that Wesley Snipes. My
Speaker 1: parents were those people who asked us to move, which
Speaker 1: I can't not speak for them. I do not support
Speaker 1: that now, I'm just kidding. Uh. They asked us to
Speaker 1: ask Mr Snipes if he could trade I think we
Speaker 1: were like very close though we were like sitting like
Speaker 1: two rows back. They just wanted to keep their eye
Speaker 1: on us, and so he switched with us. And my
Speaker 1: parents are bad people, and Wesley Snipes is a good person.
Speaker 1: Um Blade Blade known as Eric Brooks CEE. I didn't
Speaker 1: know his name was Eric, and I let's just forget
Speaker 1: that and just call him Blade like that ruins the
Speaker 1: ruins the fantasy for me. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, most people know him as Blade. I feel
Speaker 1: like Eric Brooks is a name you throw around when
Speaker 1: you want to like flex or like if you're doing
Speaker 1: like a Vampire Hunter character on Final Fantasy fourteen and
Speaker 1: you make the character Eric Brooks and and I nerds
Speaker 1: would be like, oh, Eric Brooks sounds like somebody that's
Speaker 1: constantly trying to friend me on LinkedIn. Yeah, Brooks wants
Speaker 1: to connect as a former coworker. Yeah no, uh yeah.
Speaker 1: Blade is such an interesting, fun character and essentially kind
Speaker 1: of was the first successful comic book movie. I mean,
Speaker 1: that is an arguable thing, but I'd say of this
Speaker 1: current generation because I feel like the early like Superman
Speaker 1: was pretty pretty darn successful, but I feel like Marvel
Speaker 1: the first successful Marvel movie is often as credited to Blake.
Speaker 1: Is he the first black superhero film? The film? Yes,
Speaker 1: I believe so if you don't count mystery Men. I
Speaker 1: don't know if mystery Men came before after Blade, but
Speaker 1: that was my mystery Men. Shout out are We County
Speaker 1: and will Smith an Independence Day? Because that so we
Speaker 1: had meteor Man, Blank Man, Steel are Spawn, So so
Speaker 1: technically it would be Steel if we went comic book.
Speaker 1: Steele came out before Spawn, and then Blade came out,
Speaker 1: but also Wild Wild West came out. Technically it's not
Speaker 1: a superpowered, but definitely a hero. So yeah, when it
Speaker 1: comes down to black super they definitely get the title.
Speaker 1: Blade gets the crown as the first black Marvel superhero movie.
Speaker 1: Sorry Black Panther. Wait, I thought it was Spawn. Well, no,
Speaker 1: Spawn is image. Oh you're uh so it'll go to
Speaker 1: um yeah, yeah, yeah, so it'll be Marvel. But the first,
Speaker 1: if we're going straight, technically first black superhero movie, it's
Speaker 1: gonna go to Robert Townsend's meteor Man. Then blank Man
Speaker 1: came out after that, which I've wanted to. I've in
Speaker 1: my head wanted to come out with a blank Man
Speaker 1: reboot and make a cinematic universe with Blank Man and
Speaker 1: Meteor Man. But I'm giving all the goods up on air.
Speaker 1: Then after that we if we want established comic book characters.
Speaker 1: Steele came out in and then Spawn, then we have Blade. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Blade appears in Marvel. It was created by Marv
Speaker 1: Wolfman and Gene Colin. His first appearance was actually in
Speaker 1: the Tomb of Dracula number ten that came out July three,
Speaker 1: and he was a supporting character, so he appeared in
Speaker 1: another comic before he got his own. Nice. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of how they kind of launched a
Speaker 1: lot of heroes early on. In two thousand three. The
Speaker 1: artists uh recalled. He said, Marv told me Blade was
Speaker 1: a black man, and we talked about how we should
Speaker 1: dress and how we should look very heroic looking, and
Speaker 1: that was my input. The bandalier blades, that was Marv's idea.
Speaker 1: But I dressed him up. I put the leather jacket
Speaker 1: on him and so on, which just totally lets you
Speaker 1: know this was seventies, because that's that was there there,
Speaker 1: that their idea of cool leather jacket, bandelier blades. They
Speaker 1: based the character's feature on a compositive black actors, including
Speaker 1: NFL football star turned actor Jim Brown. And that's why
Speaker 1: I had the nineteen seventies afro and uh and bladed knives,
Speaker 1: you know. Um, back when I was married my husband,
Speaker 1: which if y'all didn't know, I was married several years
Speaker 1: ago when I was too young to get married. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know a lot about Jim Brown because my
Speaker 1: husband was a Browns fan. Oh yeah, and um I
Speaker 1: had to watch them, yeah lose over and now they're
Speaker 1: the most loyal. He never cheated on me once. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they can stick through the Browns. You know, you're safe,
Speaker 1: you know, and they're humble, they're great and yeah, I
Speaker 1: went to go ahead and look up some of these
Speaker 1: Blade first arrances and I like this. I mean, I
Speaker 1: like the green jacket just popping through the nice bandalier blades.
Speaker 1: You know, I just love it. It's such a it's
Speaker 1: it's such a fun evolution of this character, um, which
Speaker 1: we'll talk about. I hope they break out this old
Speaker 1: school outfit he's in, which one the red jacket. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I really like that. Yeah, that's real cool. I'm just
Speaker 1: used to Wesley's blade, I know, And it's and it
Speaker 1: kind of If you look at the newer Blades, it
Speaker 1: really does feel like his Blade influenced the comics, or
Speaker 1: maybe the comics. Outside of Touma Dracula. He fought the
Speaker 1: scientifically created vampire Morbious in the latter serious in Adventure
Speaker 1: Interfere number twenty four that came out in October four,
Speaker 1: and it was a story written by Steve Gerbert and
Speaker 1: penciled by Pete Craig Russell. And Blade's first solo story
Speaker 1: came in Marvel's black and white horror comics magazine Vampire
Speaker 1: Tales number eight, which came out in December of nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy four, in an eleven page story by Wolfman and
Speaker 1: penciler InCor Tony dez Yeah. This feature continued in the
Speaker 1: following issue in nineteen seventy five, with Wolfman and Chris
Speaker 1: Claremont co scripting, and then Blade appeared in a fifties
Speaker 1: six page solo story in the black and white showcase
Speaker 1: magazine Marvel Preview that was ninety five that was September
Speaker 1: of nineteen seventy five, written by Claremont. A six page
Speaker 1: backup story by Wolfman and Colin followed in Marvel Preview
Speaker 1: number eight. I love that they put him. I love
Speaker 1: their horror comics section, which they're doing they still do
Speaker 1: and are doing more of. But yeah, I love their uh,
Speaker 1: I love their horror like series. Oh yeah. So then
Speaker 1: Blade came in the prominence in nineties, beginning with Ghostwriter
Speaker 1: number twenty eight and the Midnight Suns in print that
Speaker 1: included the issues of Dark Old Pages of the Book
Speaker 1: of Sins, Ghostwriter, ghost Writer Blazes and so on and
Speaker 1: so forth, And then he appeared with that team in
Speaker 1: a story, and then the anthology Midnight Suns Limited number one,
Speaker 1: which came on in April. Then he finally appeared in
Speaker 1: two solo stories in Midnight Suns A Limited number two
Speaker 1: and seven, which came out on July and October, respectively.
Speaker 1: So then, following the cancelation of Night Soccer's, Blade debuted
Speaker 1: in his first color comics series, Blade Vampire Hunter numbers
Speaker 1: one to ten. So we had finally got his own comic. Uh,
Speaker 1: and our friend popped in Our our good friend Mark
Speaker 1: and Draco wrote Blade Sins of the Father back in Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna do a friendly dig, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: wait till concerned. We'll have to ask him for commentary. Um, so, yeah,
Speaker 1: so let's talk about Eric Brooks. Uh he was born
Speaker 1: in this is uh quoted not from me, in a
Speaker 1: whorehouse in the Soho neighborhood of London, England. In I
Speaker 1: did not really lies that he was English. Is that
Speaker 1: in the no, but it's not in the movies and
Speaker 1: the movies it was the same thing where like his
Speaker 1: mom was pregnant with him but bitten by a vampire
Speaker 1: and she died as well while giving to him. But
Speaker 1: it's so so they kind of imported him to America,
Speaker 1: which I mean this this obviously is a very dated backstory. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is different than the film. Yeah, it says Eric's mother,
Speaker 1: Tara Brooks was or Tera Brooks was a prostitute at
Speaker 1: Madam Vanity's brothel when Tera experienced severe labor complications a
Speaker 1: doctor with someone who is an actuality, Deacon Frost, a
Speaker 1: vampire who feasted on her during Eric's birth and killed her.
Speaker 1: Which a fun fact about that. Deacon Frost does appear
Speaker 1: in the Blade movies and he was played by Stephen
Speaker 1: Steve Dorf. Yeah, fun fact, y'all. Stephen Dorff is the
Speaker 1: connecting between our two blades. We have Stephen Dorff and
Speaker 1: the original Blade with Wesley Snipes, and we also have
Speaker 1: them in True Detective season three with our new Blade
Speaker 1: me herschel Ali, which means if we're going off of
Speaker 1: his appearances, then he also popped in the two thousand
Speaker 1: and four Every Time music video by Britney Spears, which
Speaker 1: means Britney Spears will canonically be in Blade. Thank you.
Speaker 1: This is my This is my theory. Stephen Dorff is
Speaker 1: a good wingman, so this passed along certain enzymes in
Speaker 1: his own blood to the infant. This resulted in Eric's
Speaker 1: quasi vampiric abilities, including a greatly prolonged lifespan and the
Speaker 1: ability to send supernatural creatures, as well as an immunity
Speaker 1: to complete vampiresm Brooks fellow prostitutes drove off Frost before
Speaker 1: he could kill the infant as well. Teamwork, teamwork there um,
Speaker 1: so this is kind of fascinating in this story. In
Speaker 1: the comic, he grew up living at Madame Vanity's uh
Speaker 1: and by age nine, returning home from school one December,
Speaker 1: he saw an old man being attacked by three vampires.
Speaker 1: I love that they were just out and about in
Speaker 1: this world. Very true Blood. Eric helped the old man
Speaker 1: who used a silver cane to kill the vampires and
Speaker 1: fight off the attackers. The man was Jamal Afari, a
Speaker 1: jazz trumpeter and vampire hunter, who then moved into Madam
Speaker 1: I mean, I am down for this backstory, who then
Speaker 1: moved into He also moved into Madam Vanity's. Who how
Speaker 1: many people are living at this brothel? Um? This is
Speaker 1: I'm learning new things along with you, dear listener, who
Speaker 1: some of you already know this, but I only knew
Speaker 1: Blade from the movies, So all of this back coomic
Speaker 1: knowledge is super dope. He trained the young Eric love
Speaker 1: that he's being trained U in both music and combat
Speaker 1: in a brothel. Who else has this backstory? You know?
Speaker 1: Captain America doesn't know. He sure doesn't. Blade was soon
Speaker 1: able to defeat many of the week younger vampires that
Speaker 1: he and Afari found. Eventually, as he got older, he
Speaker 1: became an Olympic level athlete and forbidable and and to
Speaker 1: hand combat with an expertise and edged weapons such as
Speaker 1: knives and daggers, so notable. That's how he gained the
Speaker 1: nickname Blade, and both his fellow hunters and the vampires
Speaker 1: they opposed began to fear the young Hunter. Blade's victories
Speaker 1: made him cocky, and he joined the street gang the
Speaker 1: Blood Shadows, headed by Cyrus Cutter, later killed by Blade
Speaker 1: and a knife fight caused by Blade's disapproval of Cutter's
Speaker 1: actions as leaders. So like, it's crazy to read this
Speaker 1: because I also I came on to Blade from the
Speaker 1: Spider Man cartoon series because when Morbius was introduced, Blade
Speaker 1: popped in the show as well, and that's why I
Speaker 1: went back to check. It's fun to read this and
Speaker 1: see all these little nuggets that they were dropping for
Speaker 1: like Blade fans. We have to take a really quick break.
Speaker 1: We're going to come back and talk more Vampire Hunter,
Speaker 1: but after this we're back talking about Blade. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: talking about Blade. We've just been going um through the
Speaker 1: comic books history, which has been great, lots of fun,
Speaker 1: exciting stuff that went down. Did you know that he
Speaker 1: joined a street gang called the Blood Shadows. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's uh. That was that was really cool. Also because
Speaker 1: I like like comic book team ups, and mostly because
Speaker 1: I like the idea, and I you know, I would hope,
Speaker 1: I hope. Because we talked about how Marvel still does
Speaker 1: a lot of the horror stuff. Uh d C did
Speaker 1: this thing a while back called Justice League Dark. It
Speaker 1: took all their magic heroes and like kind of like
Speaker 1: the darker heroes like Constantine, Swamp Thing, Zatana, and it
Speaker 1: all put them on their own. It was called Justice
Speaker 1: League Dark, and they all kind of existed within that world.
Speaker 1: And it would be fun to see a Blade run
Speaker 1: like that where you have like you know, Blade and
Speaker 1: his like vampire hunters and we just find kind of
Speaker 1: other supernatural heroes and you know, pat them against supernatural foes. Yes, Okay,
Speaker 1: so Afari who trained Blade later fell prey to the
Speaker 1: ultimate vampire, Dracula, the young dreg god he got. You
Speaker 1: know what if I was like the County count I'm
Speaker 1: waiting for that Sesame Street Marvel crossover, I know. But yeah,
Speaker 1: then you know, just kind of went down the usual
Speaker 1: route of different Blade comics and it was great. And
Speaker 1: they've eventually had an ongoing series that was published by
Speaker 1: Marvel Max, which is usually the more kind of adult themed,
Speaker 1: So that's definitely probably one that will be fun to
Speaker 1: check out. I'm probably gonna check that out after this
Speaker 1: because yeah, like like we both said, I'm not two
Speaker 1: versed in the comics like my Blade fandom existed with
Speaker 1: the Wesley Snipe series starting at that and now that
Speaker 1: you know he's back, I'm all on the Blade hype.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna be buying a few Blade books and
Speaker 1: I'll drop it into Discord, you know, the ones that
Speaker 1: kind of resonate with me. Um. And I say all
Speaker 1: that to say, we're done talking about the comic. We're coming.
Speaker 1: We're all hyped about what we're here for. Sorry, all
Speaker 1: my Blade comic book stands, we're talking about the Blade movies.
Speaker 1: So let's get the rundown Blade, which is American superhero
Speaker 1: film directed by Steven Norrington and written by David S. Goyer,
Speaker 1: based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name.
Speaker 1: The film stars Wesley Snipes in the title role, with
Speaker 1: Stephen Dorff, Chris Christofferson, and In Bush right and supporting roles.
Speaker 1: In the film, Blade is a Damn Fear, a human
Speaker 1: vamp with vampire strengths but not their weaknesses, who protect
Speaker 1: protects humans from vampires. Released on August twenty one, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Blade became a commercial success by gross seeing seventy million
Speaker 1: at the U S box office and a hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty one point two million worldwide. Isn't in saying that
Speaker 1: that would be considered a failure today? Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: it's wild, like seventy million would be like wow, that
Speaker 1: did not do good. It's it's crazy the world we
Speaker 1: live in in film right now, and despite remixed reviews
Speaker 1: from film credits, the film received. The film received positive
Speaker 1: reception from audiences and has since garnered a cult following.
Speaker 1: It is the first film and the Blade franchise, followed
Speaker 1: by two sequels, Played Too and Blade Trinity, both written
Speaker 1: by Gayer, who also directed the latter. Blade was a
Speaker 1: dark superhero film of it for its time, and the
Speaker 1: success of Blade began Marvel's film success and set the
Speaker 1: stage for further comic book adaptations. You know, everyone thought
Speaker 1: it was iron Man, but here we go. Yeah, iron
Speaker 1: Man was the result of Blade. Without Blade, Blade crawled
Speaker 1: so iron Man could fly, Fly so Mark, so iron
Speaker 1: Man could be back in black. So now we're going
Speaker 1: to get to the film. But the funds part. Talking
Speaker 1: about movies is always starting at development. So I recently
Speaker 1: was talking about Catwoman on Jay Light's Block Busting podcast.
Speaker 1: We talked about movies we hated, I don't hate any movies.
Speaker 1: So I just tried to find a movie that I
Speaker 1: could just effectively say was so bad. What did you
Speaker 1: what did you talk about? Catwoman? Yeah? I picked um,
Speaker 1: Um Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with um everyone's favorite, um,
Speaker 1: Johnny Depp. It was so awkward to oh Man, But yeah,
Speaker 1: I know what was interesting was the development of that film, um,
Speaker 1: which totally helps you understand why it didn't just kind
Speaker 1: of meet expectations. The idea of that movie goes as
Speaker 1: far back as Michelle Peiffer's Catwoman. That's what it was
Speaker 1: based off of. In something that we kind of discovered
Speaker 1: in kind of researching and talking about the movie is
Speaker 1: through like it's it spent so long in development hell
Speaker 1: that by the time that they actually got towards shooting it,
Speaker 1: they've already started doing Batman forever. When it went from
Speaker 1: being this dark you know, Tim Burton Backman to this
Speaker 1: more campy verse. So now the studio is like less
Speaker 1: interested in it, and that's why they kind of tried
Speaker 1: to make it lighter. And you could just see the
Speaker 1: like missed wires and translation in the movie. Because there
Speaker 1: are some dark elements, there are some like light elements
Speaker 1: that just do not land. And they kind of you
Speaker 1: can tell they played with the mannerism that Michelle Peiffer
Speaker 1: created in a Catwoman, but it just does not land
Speaker 1: because it's a whole different Catwoman than that one. Can
Speaker 1: you imagine halle Berry, but it's Tim Burton's Catwoman. Oh man,
Speaker 1: that I don't think the world is right. The reason
Speaker 1: I say all that is to land you in this
Speaker 1: next sentence about Blade development, which goes as such, Marvel
Speaker 1: Studios had developed the film as early as when Rapper
Speaker 1: actor LLL Couj was interested in playing the lead role.
Speaker 1: Would have been perfect. What deep lucy he showed that
Speaker 1: Blade have been, oh man, not scary to me, like
Speaker 1: not threatening, Like it's so it's so interesting because Blade,
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny that it they you say it
Speaker 1: had mixed reviews, because if you when he watched it, it
Speaker 1: it was two thumbs up across the whole franchise. And
Speaker 1: Wesley Snipes really just gave this like voice and soul
Speaker 1: to Blade that I just can't even imagine. Well he okay,
Speaker 1: so ello cool J to me is like that his
Speaker 1: personality is the equivalent of the Rocks personality. They're very likable,
Speaker 1: they're your buddy. They're like even though they're like superhero
Speaker 1: action whatever, there, Wesley Snipes is mysterious. He will like
Speaker 1: kill you with a dagger, like you know, like it
Speaker 1: just is. It would be definitely different, especially because like that,
Speaker 1: I think you really nailed it. Wesley Snipes had this
Speaker 1: thing of where he could be like totally intimidating and
Speaker 1: scary and then like smirk with his vampire teeth and
Speaker 1: everyone's like, you know, like that was like his cool thing.
Speaker 1: And then he like the throwing the glasses, slicing people up,
Speaker 1: catching it and putting it on his eyes, Like you
Speaker 1: have to be a certain coolness to do that, and uh,
Speaker 1: that was Wesley Snipes cool. But this makes sense. So
Speaker 1: Blade was eventually of why they might have gone that route,
Speaker 1: because Blade was eventually set up at Newline Cinema with
Speaker 1: David S. Goyer writing the script, and according to goy Or,
Speaker 1: Newline originally wanted to do Blade as quote something that
Speaker 1: was almost a spoof. So I could see Llo cool
Speaker 1: J doing a spoof of Blade. Yeah, oh yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I definitely get that. And uh, but this is a
Speaker 1: fun little negative history. After failing to get a black
Speaker 1: Panther film into production in Wesley Snipe was signed on
Speaker 1: to star as Blade. Do you remember if you were
Speaker 1: in our the short that I produced for Notice that
Speaker 1: was like the impact of Black Panther, where we talked
Speaker 1: about it and they were essentially saying like it would
Speaker 1: not it had to exist at that time, Like it
Speaker 1: couldn't have exist at this time when they wanted it,
Speaker 1: or it wouldn't have done like like we said like
Speaker 1: one billion or whatever that that Blade, like you crawled
Speaker 1: so everyone else could fly, because I think um Blade
Speaker 1: was easier digest in the time because you had like
Speaker 1: this kind of insular character, and also like the world
Speaker 1: wasn't ready for superhero movies. They're like, is the way
Speaker 1: superhero movies were kind of introduced was almost very smart
Speaker 1: when you think about it. You have Blade, who's this
Speaker 1: insular character in a theme that is kind of generally
Speaker 1: accepted by the masses, which is a vampire hunter. Buffy
Speaker 1: has existed, There's been many vampire movies at this point.
Speaker 1: It would be like doing a zombie movie. People get
Speaker 1: even if you don't read comics, you get it. So
Speaker 1: then the next jump from that being Iron Man is
Speaker 1: pretty into But then you have this kind of archetype
Speaker 1: that is easy to digest, which is, you know, this
Speaker 1: weapons designer who's a millionaire playboy. Once again, it's an
Speaker 1: insular character. So then you get your iron Man out
Speaker 1: and and then after because then you had like, um, now,
Speaker 1: I'm going to mess up the order because I don't
Speaker 1: know by heart. But then you had your Thor. You
Speaker 1: had your um uh, your Incredible Hulk, which was pretty
Speaker 1: ready to go because we already had one by then.
Speaker 1: And then you had Captain America, which was kind of
Speaker 1: like the first if you think about it, wild idea
Speaker 1: because it's this guy who's the super soldier who existed
Speaker 1: in World War Two who got frozen in time. That like,
Speaker 1: that's when we had to go really into the suspension
Speaker 1: of disbelief in comics, and I think, you know, waiting
Speaker 1: for these things where like iron Man is an idea
Speaker 1: that could just be a a isolated idea, Like I
Speaker 1: can see an iron Man movie existing without a being Marvel. Um.
Speaker 1: I can see a Thor movie existing a the Norse
Speaker 1: God out of place in a real world to Fish
Speaker 1: out of Water movie, you know, the Hulk, you know,
Speaker 1: checkl and Hide. The world that is Captain America is
Speaker 1: asking you to believe in multiple things. That someone will
Speaker 1: be frozen in ice and they would be able to
Speaker 1: survive multiple years, and that that person is super noble
Speaker 1: and he was in World War Two and he's this
Speaker 1: old fashioned guy and that doesn't make him a bad person.
Speaker 1: It just makes him have even stronger mortals. And once
Speaker 1: we laid the groundwork of that and brought them all
Speaker 1: together in The Avengers, it was you. That's when you
Speaker 1: have the groundwork to where you can bring up this
Speaker 1: fictional African you know, this fictional African country that was
Speaker 1: hidden from the world, that is more advanced than any
Speaker 1: civilization ever, and they have this mysterious rock that gives
Speaker 1: them the power to control like it the groundwork was laid. Yes,
Speaker 1: I would have loved to have a Phase one Black
Speaker 1: Panther movie, but it's just really in retrospect, it just
Speaker 1: kind of fit the ground work that was laid in
Speaker 1: a way that it was undeniable when it came out.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily think that a Black Panther movie that
Speaker 1: came out earlier than when it did could have not
Speaker 1: been great. I think it could have been great, but
Speaker 1: I think the groundwork that was laid made it undeniable. Well,
Speaker 1: you want to know something, This was a really interesting
Speaker 1: summer because it was had we had poc lead films.
Speaker 1: We had a Mulan that came out in June that summer,
Speaker 1: then we had Zoro that came out in July, and
Speaker 1: then we had Blade that came out in August. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're all in the swords by this point, very much,
Speaker 1: so funny. And the one of Mulan is the poster
Speaker 1: is her like holding her sword right in the middle.
Speaker 1: And then we got Zoro cutting through with his sword,
Speaker 1: and then we had Blade pulling out his sword. Love it.
Speaker 1: So they were they were they were laying some groundwork
Speaker 1: for future films, laying some groundwork. But yeah, so the casting,
Speaker 1: you know, they originally were looking at el O cool
Speaker 1: j and then they also looked at Wesley Snipes, obviously,
Speaker 1: Denzel Washington and Laurence fishburn I could see Laura, I
Speaker 1: mean I could see either. I could see any of those.
Speaker 1: Denzel at that time, definitely Laurence Fishburne, who we later
Speaker 1: saw in leather Um. But Goyer Snipes was always the
Speaker 1: perfect choice for Blade. Mark Singer was the original choice
Speaker 1: for Whistler and Jet Lee was offered the role of
Speaker 1: Deacon Frost but opted to do Lethal Weapon four that
Speaker 1: also did come out that year. Um I wonder if he,
Speaker 1: I wonder which one he Lethal Weapon for did pretty well?
Speaker 1: That had that had Chris Rock in it, right, I remember?
Speaker 1: I like that one? Um? I mean, I like that
Speaker 1: is interesting though that instead of going with like they
Speaker 1: were going to cast gently and then they cast Stephen Dorff.
Speaker 1: Fascinating Blade. So Blade was actually produced on a very
Speaker 1: low budget or million was largely done in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: with some scenes actually being shot in Death Valley. Very
Speaker 1: hard to do, and all sets were constructed and all
Speaker 1: on all on set. Filming occurred in what was formerly
Speaker 1: the Redkin shampoo factory in Canoga Park. The effects for
Speaker 1: the films were done by Flat Earth Productions. So here's
Speaker 1: here's the thing. So the soundtrack was peeked at number
Speaker 1: thirty six on the Billboard two hundred and the top
Speaker 1: R and B hip Hop albums. See this is what
Speaker 1: we lost? Was l O cool Jake would have if
Speaker 1: it's blade is blade blade bla bla blade, it's blade,
Speaker 1: something like a blade aminon, something like a blade aminon
Speaker 1: That's that's what it would and I would've gonna smash hit.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'm gonna leave you out with this,
Speaker 1: something like a Blaine Aminon, something like a Blade Nominon.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back, and we're back. We're still talking
Speaker 1: about Blade. We're still tackling the first so very fascinating.
Speaker 1: The first cut of the film was one and forty
Speaker 1: minutes long, and it had a disastrous test screening with audiences.
Speaker 1: That's interesting. I want to know what that looked like.
Speaker 1: I wonder if they had the original brothel and people
Speaker 1: were like, no, take that out. Um. People were in
Speaker 1: you know, the nineties weren't as progressive as we are now.
Speaker 1: Heavy edits and reshoots were implemented, which delayed the release
Speaker 1: date more than half a year. Uh. If that story
Speaker 1: had dropped now, it would be insane, like Marvel doing
Speaker 1: a delaying their thing half a year. That's like what's
Speaker 1: happening with Sonic um, which, by the way, if he
Speaker 1: when they Okay, so they dropped the Cat's trailer while
Speaker 1: we were at San Diego Comic Con and someone tweeted
Speaker 1: and was like, we owe the team at Sonic a
Speaker 1: big apology. I'm all for that Cat's trailer. I mean,
Speaker 1: make it weird. You know so many things we we
Speaker 1: have the Lion King look normal. Just just make it weird,
Speaker 1: be as weird as possible. Why not play around. I
Speaker 1: hope they come back, honestly, I hope Sonic Team comes
Speaker 1: back and makes him look even weirder, like just massively
Speaker 1: big teeth or no teeth at all. He just has gums. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then not even shoes, just like Ralph, he just
Speaker 1: has feet, just walks around and feet. That's somebody please
Speaker 1: draw that. Um So. The most significant change with this
Speaker 1: with this film with the reshoots was the addition of
Speaker 1: the final sword fight between Blade and Deacon Frost, which
Speaker 1: did not exist in the original cut. So thank you
Speaker 1: audiences for speaking up and saying, hey, we need more
Speaker 1: fight scene, we need this, we need more swords. That
Speaker 1: sort of scene is probably like one of the most
Speaker 1: memorable parts because it was just so so cool. Look
Speaker 1: look at like. I'm sure if I watch it now,
Speaker 1: it's not as cool. Back then. The visual effects were
Speaker 1: kind of cool to me. I was very into that,
Speaker 1: but the original ending had Frost turned into lamagra and
Speaker 1: become a large swirling mass of blood instead of keeping
Speaker 1: his form. This was scrapped because they couldn't get the
Speaker 1: special effects to look right. It can be seen as
Speaker 1: a special feature on the DVD. I would love to
Speaker 1: see what this looks like in trying to like make
Speaker 1: a swirling blood mass look good. O. Yeah, and here comes,
Speaker 1: here comes the biggest disrespect. Stanley originally had a cameo
Speaker 1: that was ultimately cut from the film. He played one
Speaker 1: of the cops that came into the Blood Club during
Speaker 1: the aftermath and discovered Quinn's body on fire. The scene
Speaker 1: where Karen Deacon are talking about the cure for vampire
Speaker 1: ism initially ran a bit longer and answered the questions
Speaker 1: of how vampires would feed if everybody was turned into vampire,
Speaker 1: they would keep some humans alive in the giant blood
Speaker 1: bags to harvest them. The bags can still be seen
Speaker 1: in the doorway during the scene. And later played an
Speaker 1: interrob part of the plot in Blade Trinity, which I'm
Speaker 1: glad they didn't add that because I feel like sometimes
Speaker 1: movie over explained and I never felt the I never
Speaker 1: question that. I've never been like, well, if everyone's a vampire,
Speaker 1: how are they going to feed? It was like they'd
Speaker 1: figure it out, but This would have been Stanley's first
Speaker 1: cameo and they cut it. Man, look at Blade really
Speaker 1: was putting the work in so iron man, they knew that.
Speaker 1: That's where they goofed. Um. You know what's so funny
Speaker 1: is boss logic. You know boss logic? Right? Great artist? Um.
Speaker 1: He has been known to do artwork and like predict
Speaker 1: who is I think what happens? Essentially he makes like
Speaker 1: dope artwork of say Henry cavill Is Witcher and then
Speaker 1: Netflix is like, oh, this looks good. You guys like this, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're doing it. Um. Which now he's which Now he's
Speaker 1: actually been working with Marvel, which is really cool. Like
Speaker 1: a lot of his a lot of his stuff has
Speaker 1: been But I think he had one thing that was
Speaker 1: wrong and that he drew John Boyega as Blade, and
Speaker 1: I that's another. As much as I want to see
Speaker 1: him go bad, I would love to see it for
Speaker 1: personal reasons, I just don't know. Too young. Someone someone
Speaker 1: hit me up when the news was announced and was like, sorry,
Speaker 1: you didn't get cast to Blay. I'm like, I'm too young.
Speaker 1: Same thing when someone it's like sorry about Buck, I'm
Speaker 1: too young, Like I'm I'm very like I would turn
Speaker 1: down the role. Yeah, right, but like I would be like, nah,
Speaker 1: too old. Oh they're laughing at the sound both about
Speaker 1: the idea. Yea, yeah, yeah, I would turn down the role.
Speaker 1: J k Son that if you really feel I should
Speaker 1: do it, but yeah no, it was like, you can
Speaker 1: still be in the Blood Shadows. I know, yeah, well
Speaker 1: I be one of the members. But when I saw
Speaker 1: my ma Herschela, I was like, oh, yeah, because they
Speaker 1: just him and Wesley, like I said on last episode,
Speaker 1: share like a similar aesthetic and build. So it feels
Speaker 1: like it's gonna be a fun take without you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's not going to be the exact same thing,
Speaker 1: but I feel like it's not gonna feel like such
Speaker 1: a huge departure to people who wanted Wesley so bad.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll pop back up. I am sure he's
Speaker 1: gonna be. Yeah, it's gonna definitely be a cameo in there.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see it. It's gonna be Mr Brooks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so the box. The film went to number one in
Speaker 1: both Spain and Australia for their opening weekends, with two
Speaker 1: hundred theaters show in the film. Spain's filmgoers earned the
Speaker 1: film one point five million in three days, whilst Australia
Speaker 1: earned it one million from a hundred and thirty two
Speaker 1: cinemas showing the film. In the Flemish region of Belgium,
Speaker 1: the film earned three hundred and twenty three thousand from
Speaker 1: twenty cinemas. In the Netherlands earned the film two hundred
Speaker 1: forty six thousand from forty forty four cinemas, and France
Speaker 1: made one point nine million in five days from two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty one cinemas, but the films was less
Speaker 1: successful in Hong Kong with a hundred and eighty two
Speaker 1: uh thousand from twenty two cinemas. In South Africa hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty nine from sixty four United Kingdom was successful
Speaker 1: what in the film was banned from showing in Malaysia,
Speaker 1: wildly considered to have the most controlling sensors. Despite the
Speaker 1: success of the film, Marvel shared only the flat feet
Speaker 1: of I Think I um, oh, yeah, yeah so uh
Speaker 1: ten years ago. Disney bought Marvel for four billion in
Speaker 1: two thousand nine, and a decade later it's made more
Speaker 1: than eighteen billion in the box office. But anyways, they
Speaker 1: got thousand for for a blade that's great. Uh so. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so now we have our new Blade. Uh A lot
Speaker 1: of people are kind of debating who they think should
Speaker 1: should direct it, and people like Jordan Peel and Jordan
Speaker 1: Peele has already been like no, I'm good, which I
Speaker 1: find fascinating, I think because he is in the horror genre.
Speaker 1: But you know, he's he's making a lot of original content,
Speaker 1: um with with Us and get Out, and those are
Speaker 1: straight horror, whereas this is kind of like action fish.
Speaker 1: It would be fascinating if if he did it. What
Speaker 1: I would want to see is I wouldn't mind some
Speaker 1: of his I like when his comedic style comes out.
Speaker 1: Um so, but yeah, he already said that he doesn't
Speaker 1: want to do it, so he's off the I know.
Speaker 1: I I would like some maybe like a director from
Speaker 1: like John Wick or The Raid. Like I want really
Speaker 1: because one, I mean, one of the most memorable things
Speaker 1: about Blade is the action, and I feel like this
Speaker 1: is a fun way to just see this and really
Speaker 1: have me Hershela really show his action shops. So that's
Speaker 1: that's where where my head's at. Like, you know, Jordan
Speaker 1: would be cool. I really want like a big action
Speaker 1: director to really take the helm on this well, um,
Speaker 1: someone fascinating that that hopefully is getting looked at is
Speaker 1: Peter Ramsey. And Peter Ramsey uh he directed Spiderman into
Speaker 1: the Spider Verse, and I think guys saw um Shannon Tindall,
Speaker 1: who who created Cuba in the Two Strings. Uh. He
Speaker 1: tweeted and was like, um one, he directed a Marvel
Speaker 1: character in Spiderman into the Spider Verse too. He worked
Speaker 1: with Blade m c U star Marschel Ali on Spider
Speaker 1: Verse three. Um. As pointed out by Jorge Gutierrez, who's
Speaker 1: the director of A Book of Life, he boarded on
Speaker 1: Copela's Dragon Dracula and three, I happen to know he
Speaker 1: loves vampires. Peter Ramsey for Blade, So that's really that's
Speaker 1: a you know, I want to see more of what
Speaker 1: Peter Ramsey would do. I think that's really cool. There's
Speaker 1: been a lot of a lot of different names thrown
Speaker 1: out there. It would be awesome to have a black
Speaker 1: director take on Blade. You know. We we uh, we didn't.
Speaker 1: We kind of skipped over Blade two and three, which
Speaker 1: were great. They they kind of rounded up the series.
Speaker 1: But I I just like looking and really kind of
Speaker 1: talking about the origins of the film franchise, because like
Speaker 1: it really is, like, you know, all parts of the movie,
Speaker 1: we love them, but like the first one is kind
Speaker 1: of the most portant important because the success and the
Speaker 1: development of Blade one is why we got to in Trinity. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but worth noting. Gilmore do Toro directed Blade too. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely remember that, and you can definitely tell with
Speaker 1: the design of the vampires because those are where they
Speaker 1: get very intense looking. I wonder if he would come back. Oh,
Speaker 1: that was gonna be one of my picks in there.
Speaker 1: I think Raid Fight directors. I mean, like if we
Speaker 1: had to Hodgepodge put together team go ahead and let
Speaker 1: Ramsey direct, bring the fight the stunt directors from from
Speaker 1: John Wick, and then put monster design on Giermo di Toro.
Speaker 1: You know, it's really cool, is that? Finally for Blade Trinity,
Speaker 1: David Esgoyer ended up directing it. Yeah, so he had
Speaker 1: been you know, writing them previously and stepped up to director. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, they happened. Yeah, they were okay, they were great.
Speaker 1: I mean I liked them all the same. They are great.
Speaker 1: It was great trilogy. I wish there was another trilogy,
Speaker 1: but now my wishes being granted, in such a big way,
Speaker 1: and I'm so excited to what the Marvel one is.
Speaker 1: Oh you know what, I just found this article on
Speaker 1: Gizmoto and it said Blade too, which is important till
Speaker 1: del Toro does not hold up at all, and it says,
Speaker 1: is it Blade two is not as good as you remember? Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't remember it being great, but we
Speaker 1: were younger, right, yeah, and I'm gonna hold onto that love. Hey,
Speaker 1: it's me and a Batman and Robin. It was fantastic
Speaker 1: film and no one disagrees with that. Uh yeah, I'm excited.
Speaker 1: I'm imagining that they're going to start the Origin story
Speaker 1: with Marshela, right yeah, probably, Yeah, I wouldn't mind if
Speaker 1: they took some creative liberties there. And by creative liberties,
Speaker 1: like I don't know, like like both the movie and
Speaker 1: the comics starts off with his mom getting bitten diting
Speaker 1: right away, like and and like there's nothing necessarily wrong
Speaker 1: with that, but I think it's kind of like the
Speaker 1: thing of like, okay, we've seen it twice, Like what
Speaker 1: can we do to mix it up? And I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily mean I need his mom to be like this,
Speaker 1: like strong, you know, the action part of the thing,
Speaker 1: but like, what is the world of him growing up
Speaker 1: with that powers with parents instead of just being organized, right,
Speaker 1: would you be okay if his parents like let's say
Speaker 1: his mom was a vampire and his dad wasn't and
Speaker 1: they had like a I'm going to pitch this to them,
Speaker 1: like like, so they created this half vampire child, but
Speaker 1: their love was forbidden and they were murdered or I
Speaker 1: don't know what we were. Yeah. One thing I like
Speaker 1: about a lot of vampire stories, like especially like Vampire
Speaker 1: the masquerade and stuff, is like the faction and houses
Speaker 1: and those kind of like those always get me going,
Speaker 1: like love that. So it would be cool if like
Speaker 1: it was almost like a Saga esque story where like
Speaker 1: it's this forbidden love. But that would take too much
Speaker 1: away from Blade, so maybe we do have to start working.
Speaker 1: It's just the first No, listen, it's like Prince of Egypt.
Speaker 1: They put him in the basket and they have him
Speaker 1: go down the river and then someone literally a mile
Speaker 1: down finds him and yeah, the only cool thing of
Speaker 1: he lives in a palace and uh Michelle Pfeiffer sings
Speaker 1: in it, and well, the the Deacon Frost like story
Speaker 1: what's kind of gnarly about it, which it wasn't explored
Speaker 1: in the movie, is like his essential like vampire daddy
Speaker 1: killed his real mom. So like that's like, you know,
Speaker 1: that's a like the whole thing that wasn't explored that
Speaker 1: you might be explored. We'll see. This is all speculation. No,
Speaker 1: I have my hands on the script and yeah, okay cool,
Speaker 1: let me let me get my hands on those two.
Speaker 1: What do you have coming up, Danny? Well, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what day it is, um, but
Speaker 1: you know, follow me on all the things, like at
Speaker 1: miss Danny Fernandez and tweet us your blade stuff. Did
Speaker 1: you like Blade Trinity? We want to know what did
Speaker 1: you like about it? Probably Ryan Reynolds goatee. Um. I
Speaker 1: love when he was like still figuring himself out that,
Speaker 1: you know, when he was like an amNY Ville and
Speaker 1: like those are like, oh I'm super and then he
Speaker 1: was like, oh no, I should stick with the comedy stuff. Okay, good, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm actually really funny. It's deadpool. This works for me. Yes,
Speaker 1: tweet us your your vampire? What are your other favorite
Speaker 1: vampire properties? I if he did you watch True Blood? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was I was a fan for many reasons. It
Speaker 1: was very spicy, it was hoof by. I enjoyed it.
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