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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). © 2000 Warner Brothers 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.
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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