Stephen Dorff Confirms 'Blade' Prequel But Not Much Progress Yet« FirstShowing.net

Last summer, wereported on a rumorthat actorStephen Dorff, next seen in Sofia Coppola'sSomewhere, would star in a prequel spin-off to Marvel'sBladethat would be about Dorff's vampire villain Deacon Frost. It was set to be a new trilogy created by filmmaker Stephen Norrington, who directed the firstBlademovie but has been struggling to get anything into production recently, includingThe Crowreboot (whichhe's no longer attached to). Anyway, we've posted updateshereandthere, but finally have anewquote from Dorff himself. He does shed some light on the new prequel, but it doesn't sound like it's further along than before.

The new quote comes from a blog actually calledDark Lord Bunnykins(viaCinema Blend) which, believe it or not, supposedly got following quote directly from Dorff (most likely doing interviews forSomewhere). I thought the quote was informative and lengthy enough to include the entire text for your reading pleasure.

"Yeah, well, that was something we were talking about. Me and Steve Norrington had a cool treatment for that, and when vampires got all {trendy} again, we thought we should do the adult version, more of likea Scarface Deacon Frost movie. And it sounded cool, this treatment, but then there was {sic} so many legal things. Like, New Line owned Blade and Marvel's got… all this hype into The Avengers and this group movie which sounds like such amistake. And Blade was such a '90s thing…

"I didn't want to do a Blade movie, I just really wanted to take Deacon and do then do a whole other thing which wasmuch more today. So the idea me and Steve had, we might just end up fictionalizing it and just making anew characterwhich might even be better for us. And he's someone I really like and would love to work with again. So hopefully whenever we get a chance we'll get into that."

Honestly,"whenever we get a chance"doesn't sound very hopeful at all, and considering Norrington hasn't been able to recover his career since dive-bombing it withThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemenin 2003, I don't think his involvement is helping it get off the ground any sooner. Dorff's most interesting comments are about their decision to change the title and character, yet keep the same story but without Marvel, which is actuallynota bad idea to get this going, but potentially disastrous too. Additionally, he'sdefinitelynot as excited aboutThe Avengersas I am, but I don't think it's a"mistake"like he said. Is Marvel's focus on bigger characters and connecting their universe together hurting the little characters under the Marvel name which deserve a chance to shine as well? That's the question Droff is asking, but I truthfully don't know the answer.

We'll continue to keep an eye out for any more news on thisBladeprequel with Dorff and Norrington, but it sounds like we still have to wait at least a few more years.Is anyone actually excited for the prequel?

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