Norrington and Dorff Returning to 'Blade' Franchise
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Marvel's Blade universe is a fairly extensive one, with the character crossing paths with such branded standbys as SHIELD and Doctor Strange. Naturally, very little of this was ever used in the Blade film trilogy, and if you longed to see a touch more of the comic series on the big screen, there might be hope. According to Comics2Film, Steven Norrington is returning to the franchise, and spinning a Blade-less, Wesley Snipes-less spinoff. Norrington and Stephen Dorff have apparently been talking about a Deacon Frost spinoff for some time. Dorff initially broke the news via The Sunday Mail. "It will be a prequel to the Blade movies, Deacon's story. It's a new trilogy the director has created. It will [be] cool. We hope to shoot the first film next year. Frost is a character I have never been able to shake." Norrington confirmed the story, but quickly added that the movie wasn't exactly what the Mail described before crediting Dorff with the idea.
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7-07-2009 @ 12:02PM
Cyhort said...
This could be pretty good. When I was a kid Frost was one of my favorite vampire villains so I'm kinda looking forward to this.
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7-07-2009 @ 12:41PM
Matthew said...
Don't know where they'd take it, but I'd watch it as long as Frost isn't turned into a sympathetic bad guy with good intentions. Stephen Dorff does great work when playing interesting characters.
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7-07-2009 @ 3:28PM
steveo said...
Blade 1 was just awesome, and Dorff did a great job as the vampire baddie - a much better villian the any of the rest in the series. Looking forward to this!
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7-07-2009 @ 8:36PM
Mr. R said...
Maybe it will include a young Abraham Whistler and a little subplot of how he met Blade's mom but kept it a secret form him! Prequel cliches, the works.
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