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Fight Club and Se7en director David Fincher almost made a Marvel Blade movie - and he had a very specific vision for it
What David Fincher's "visual pitch" was for his Blade movie, we may never know, but it was probably deeply psychological and traumatizing.
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The original Blade movies (yes, even Blade: Trinity) deserve far more credit than they get for kicking off the modern comic book movie era. They were dark, brutal, and stylish in a way that we hadn’t seen before – but we nearly got a version that was far different. That’s because Fight Club and Se7en director David Fincher originally pitched a very specific vision for his Blade movie.
The revelation that we nearly had a David Fincher take on Blade came from David S. Goyer, who wrote the Blade films, while he was talking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “I developed a draft with [David] Fincher and it was before he had done Se7en. So, I think he had done Alien 3 and maybe he was developing Se7en and I developed a draft with him.”
Fincher’s penchant for diving into the complexities of twisted minds would have made him a fun choice to direct Blade, but, sadly, it was not meant to be. However, Goyer remembers that Fincher had a very distinct vision for what his Blade movie would look like. “What was interesting is that I remember going to our producer’s office, Peter Frankfort, and Fincher had this, there was this giant conference table. And Fincher had laid out 40,50 books of photography and art that were just open with post-it notes in them. And he just said this the movie. And then took us on a two-hour tour around it. Like, this is the aesthetic. This is the vibe of this scene, that scene, this character, this scene. And it was such a fully fleshed-out visual pitch.”
Sadly, we’ll never get to see what David Fincher’s plans were for Blade, but we know it probably would have been deeply psychological and more than a little traumatic for all its characters.
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