Blade: Trinity

Blade: Trinity is a 2004 film, directed by David S. Goyer, who also wrote the screenplays to the first two Blade movies. It is the third film in the Blade trilogy, following on from Blade and Blade II, and it is based on the Marvel Comics character Blade, played by Wesley Snipes. The title alludes to the trinity formed between Blade, Hannibal King, and Abigail Whistler in the movie.

It was originally expected that Guillermo del Toro, who directed Blade II, would direct. He passed on the project, however, to work on Hellboy.

In the last chapter of the Blade trilogy, Wesley Snipes returns as the day-walking vampire hunter in the explosive third and final film in the Blade franchise, Blade: Trinity. When the Vampire Nation hatches a plan to frame Blade in a series of brutal killings, he must join forces with the Nightstalkers, a clan of human vampire hunters, in an extreme battle in which the trail of blood leads directly to the notorious vampire legend, Dracula. Written and directed by David S. Goyer, Blade: Trinity also stars Jessica Biel as Abigail, the daughter of Whistler (Kris Kristofferson), who inherits the vampire-slaying duties that once belonged to Blade (Wesley Snipes); and Ryan Reynolds (National Lampoon's Van Wilder) as Hannibal King, one of the Nightstalkers.

Trivia

• Blade II (2002) director Guillermo del Toro passed on the film when Hellboy (2004), his dream project, was greenlighted.
  
  
• An early idea by David S. Goyer for the film was to be set many years after the events of the last film, where vampires finally had achieved world domination and enslaved all humans, with Blade being the last hope for humanity. Blade's slower aging could be explained by his vampire blood. The storyline was deemed too dark and was later dropped.
  
  
• This marks David S. Goyer's directorial debut for a major motion picture.

• German director Oliver Hirschbiegel was once under consideration for the job of directing Blade: Trinity (2004), but could not direct the vampire-hunting sequel due to a conflict with another film. He directed Untergang, Der (2004) (aka The Downfall - Hitler and the End of the Third Reich) for Constantin Films instead.
  
  
• Ryan Reynolds gained 25 pounds of muscle for his role as Hannibal King.
  
  
• 'Paul Michael Levesque' (aka professional wrestler Triple H) impressed the producers with his work rate and camera presence. New Line insisted that extra lines were written to the script to make his role bigger.
  
  
• Jessica Biel inadvertently destroyed a camera when she shot it with a bow and arrow during a scene (she was directed to "aim for the camera"). Director David S. Goyer intends to include it on the DVD release.
  
  
• The vampire dogs' mouthparts are the same as the Reapers' from Blade II (2002).
  
  
• When Hannibal King is telling Blade about the return of Dracula, he shows Blade a copy of Tomb of Dracula #55. Marvel's "Tomb of Dracula" comic (#10 to be precise) was the title in which Blade made his first appearance in the early-1970s.
  
  
• The character of Hannibal King was created by comic book writer Marv Wolfman, who also created Blade himself. Hannibal King made his first appearance in "Tomb of Dracula" #25.
  
  
• Hannibal King's line to Blade, "You might wanna try blinking", was improvised.
  
  
• The film crew was forced to be selective in their shots for various green-screen segments because neighboring stages were being used for the filming of I, Robot (2004) and The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) and those sets would sometimes appear within the frames (and edited out later).
  
  
• After the car crash that ends the opening chase scene, one of the benches at the bus stop in the background displays a poster with the word "esperanto" on it. This is the language being spoken in the subtitled film that King is watching later on in the movie while recovering from his wound (Incubus (1965)).
  
  
• One of the television commercials for the film was recalled after one day of airing because it accidentally credited Jessica Biel as Jessica Alba.
  
  
• Colin Farrell was offered the role of Hannibal King, but turned it down.
  
  
• The Whistler character ('Kris Kristofferson' ) and the newspaper vendor are speaking in Esperanto, with English subtitles provided. The scene on and in the police headquarters is in both English and Esperanto. The movie watched by Hannibal King when he is recovering from his wounds on the boat is also in Esperanto. The Esperanto League for North America was contacted and asked to provide the necessary translations for the movie.
  
  
• An early idea of David S. Goyer was to include not only Hannibal King, but a female character called Rachel Van Helsing from the Tomb of Dracula comics, but then he heard about the movie Van Helsing (2004) and decided against it. He ended up creating the character of Abigail Whistler, Whistler's daughter, in her place.
  
  
• The PDA used at the beginning of the movie is a PalmOne Tungsten T3.
  
  
• The girl in the vampire gift shop is wearing a Motorhead tank top. Motorhead is the band who recorded Triple H's theme music for the WWE, and Triple H appears in this film as Jarko Grimwood.
  
  
• Having just been saved by the Nightstalkers, Blade ridicules his rescuers as "rookies" and asks them if they think of the vampire hunt as a "sitcom". At that moment, the camera cuts to Patton Oswalt who had been a cast member of the sitcom, "The King of Queens" (1998) for several years. In addition, Ryan Reynolds was one of the stars of "Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place" and Jessica Biel one of the daughters in "7th Heaven" (1996).
  
  
• The vampire "final Solution" in this film originally came from an idea in the first blade film. In a deleted scene Deacon Frost shows Karen Jensen a prototype of harvesting human bodies. This can be found on the blade 1 DVD.
  
  
• The one-eyed news vendor that whistler was talking to is the director of photography.
  
  
• Based on Marvel Comics characters.
  
  
• One of young vampires that attack Abby in the beginning of the movie is wearing a The Lost Boys (1987) t-shirt.
  
  
• A deleted ending had the group hunting a werewolf/vampire hybrid in a casino, possibly a look into the direction a 4th movie may take.
  
  
• EASTER EGG: On the special features, disk click up and when the vampire hieroglyphics is highlighted then Click it to access a hidden movie
  
  
• The name of the talk-show host Bentley Tittle is a reference to horror writer Bentley Little.