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Snipes Talks
to AC Team Continued...
AC: AsianConnections, our audience is mainstream
American, Asian, as well as worldwide, ... Do you envision doing
more, producing more with a global East-West flavor?
Snipes:
Definitely, definitely. And we would like to find Asian and African
directors to present stuff to Amen Ra Films [Snipes production company]
and we can produce it on their behalf here in the States. I don't
have to be in it. I'm not interested in being in it. And it can
be stories that have nothing to do with the African American experience.
It can be purely and solely specific to that culture, but give us
an opportunity, we can make a good film. We can help you make a
good film.
Q:
Christian said that the most difficult scene to shoot was the opening
scene, the opening stunt, the parachute, and the parachute's shadow
is falling. What do you think is the most difficult stunt for you
to shoot, and why?
Snipes:
I didn't have too much difficulty in this. Fight scenes are always,
they have their challenges, especially when you don't have the time
to really rehearse the fight scene that you are really supposed
to, they have their challenges. But other than that, things went
very smooth on this. Plus I worked with the same team. We have a
team of stuntmen and martial artists who I've always work with,
and we know each other's movements, we know a lot of each other's
styles and rhythms. We can come in, in the day, bang-bang-bang,
hit it and we are done. (Snaps fingers).
Q:
Christian said that he really didn't feel that there was a need to
develop a romance between you and Marie's character. Did you agree
with that? Or did you think the film could have benefited from that?
Snipes:
Nah man, we got 24 hours, my man is on the run. We got two days.
He's got no time for boning, he's got no time for none of that.
He's like, yo, my man is on the run. (Laughter) He's got to save
his own self. That's it. So it would be stupid, to end up in the
sack somewhere like in a hotel or motel, you know, on the run. Yeah
right. (Laughter) I don't think so.
Q:
Can you talk about "Blade 2?" Is it going to happen for
sure?
Snipes:
Starts in February, principle photography starts in February. All
I have to say is bananas.
Q:
Bananas?
Snipes:
Ba-na-nas.
Q:
So it's going to be even more intense then the first one.
Snipes:
That's child's play. You know, we were trying stuff we had never
done before. We were trying stuff. Now we understand how it works.
We are not going to make the same mistakes, and we have a ten times
better story than we had on the first one.
Q:
Who's directing?
Snipes:
Guillermo del Toro. Right.
Q:
Now, you probably don't want to give out too many details, but give
us some hint about what this next plot with the character is going
to be about?
Snipes:
Well, it starts with Blade going to Vegas (laughter). We're going
there (laughter). And Whistler comes back.
Q:
Kris Kristofferson.
Snipes: Yeah! How does it happen? Hmmmm. The
basic premise is that there is another class of vampires. There's
actually been some genetic manipulation, genetic alteration, engineering
between humans and vampires. And actually they've created a super
vampire. This super vampire feeds on other vampires, so the council
calls a truce. They want to call a peace treaty with Blade, because
(laughter) they need his help to get these other vampires out of
the way. And they send a whole team that was otherwise supposed
to kill Blade to work alongside of him. So now his enemies become
his allies, and they both go after this super vampire.
Q:
So it starts filming February, when is it going to be out?
Snipes:
Next year.
Q:
But some time in 2001.
Snipes:
Yes.
Q:
Were you surprised by how huge the movie was?
Snipes: Those people have been waiting for
a good action flick, a good comic book film, and we were just waiting
for the opportunity to do it. I mean, I come from the 70's, all
the Run Run Shaw films, all the Bruce Lee early flicks. Most of
these films that they make are wack! Totally wack. You give us a
chance and we are out of here! We know, because we know what the
people like, because we still go to the movies and we still pay
to see them.
Q:
But why don't we see so many wack films though, why do we see so
much crap out there?
Snipes:
You know, because it's in a vacuum, you know, and I have writers
and artists, and the producers. They never go to see the movies
like the average person. They see them as screenings and controlled
environments, you know. And they don't sit there and see and hear
the comments, when people say, eh that's wack, eh that's corny,
yeah yeah, seen it. "Matrix." Right, we heard about that.
They don't see that, so they don't know.
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