Are plans quashed for a Blade: Trinity Nightstalkers spin off or a Freddy vs Jason movie? Well Coming Soon take the quotes from Creature Corner‘s questions to Toby Emmerich over at New Line about the possibilities.
Without much surprise he said that there are no plans right now for either. Really though, that doesn’t give us much. At least he goes on to say about the Nightstalkers:
There are no plans right now for a Nightstalkers film until I see how well Blade: Trinity does on video.
Oh, great idea. Why don’t you just stop for a moment and look at what the fans are saying rather than wait for the balance sheet from the video and DVD sales. Why not make Blade a four episode series and chuck in a final movie which really does the character justice. Get the original ideals back on board and let it go out in style, I’m sure Wesley Snipes would like to do a decent sequel. Hell, you could even use the Nightstalkers in it again if you want to promote a new series, but if you haven’t learnt by now, don’t use it as a vehicle to launch some new characters, make it a good movie in its own right and add in the new characters should you feel the need to. The good movie is the key here.
Coming soon carry an interesting figure which I didn’t realise:
Freddy vs. Jason cost about $30 million to produce and earned an impressive $114.3 worldwide.
Wow, that is good. I’ve never seen the movie myself. To be quite honest the whole idea left me feeling unexcited and flat. It might appear that Sam Raimi feels the same way as Emmerich when quoted to Coming Soon ages ago:
…Riami who holds the rights to the “Evil Dead” franchise, debunked those reports in October and told us that “we’d rather not do that right now. As fun as that sounded, I think they are two different worlds. Evil Dead and Freddy and Jason.”
It’s interesting reading these quotes as to which way you take them. To me, at first reading the Raimi quote says that he’s not interested in doing that. Raimi makes good movies, and if he thinks that the two characters worlds don’t exist together, then that sounds quite conclusive to me. However, you could take it that despite that he wants to create the movie as it will be a fun movie (and possibly a money earner) but the time isn’t right just now.
Who really knows! I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
