Comic Book Movies by David Hughes

Author:David Hughes [David Hughes]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Published: 2007-09-08T00:00:00+00:00

The biggest alteration the film underwent concerned the ending, as David Goyer explains: 229‘We had always had trouble with the last twenty minutes of the film, ever since my first draft – how Deacon Frost gets dispatched was always something that was up in the air. There were maybe ten endings that had been written and at least two had been shot: one that involved a sort of Viking funeral for Whistler in which his body was burned in order to make sure he didn’t come back. There was an extremely apocalyptic ending in which there was this sort of nuclear explosion of blood that literally decimated a number of city blocks, sort of like the atom bomb scene in Terminator 2, and anyone standing gets turned into a vampire, and at the end of the film, Blade and Karen pick themselves up and there are literally hundreds of vampires out on the streets, so it’s become “planet of the vampires”. The whole idea for the sequel was to do a Mad Max film in which the vampires [had] won, the “Final Solution” actually did happen, and humans were kept up in pens and concentration camps being mass-produced for food.’

The ending which was ultimately decided upon was one in which Deacon Frost turns into a CG-animated La Magra, the blood god, likened by several members of the production team to the water tentacle in The Abyss, but created out of blood. 230‘It read great on the page, and the tests seemed pretty cool,’ Goyer says. ‘The problem was that ultimately Blade was fighting a special effect, he wasn’t fighting a person, and it just felt completely hollow.’ Adds Peter Frankfurt, 231‘We tested the movie with that ending, and the audience was totally with it until then, and then they fell out of it. The audience wasn’t interested in seeing Frost turn into this inanimate twister of blood. They were pissed off at this guy – they wanted to see him get the shit kicked out of him, not this vortex. You could feel the audience say, “Oh, that’ll look cool – but we don’t care.” It just hit all of us like a ton of bricks, and we all got chastened. We had spent a lot of time and money on something the audience doesn’t particularly care about.’ Someone hit upon the notion of having Frost stabbed with the EDTA capsules, Blade’s earlier use of which had been greeted with cheers from the preview audience.

232‘There was also another ending which did not get filmed, [but which] in some ways would have been the most true to the character,’ says Goyer. ‘This ending involved Deacon Frost turning into the blood god, and at this point Blade’s mother, Vanessa, has not been killed, so Deacon Frost uses her as a shield, hoping that Blade won’t attack him. And Blade stays his hand, and Frost says, “I knew it – see, you’re too human, Blade.” And Blade says, “It’s because I’m human I can do this,” and he runs his mother and Frost through with the sword, and kills them both.

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