Stephen Norrington

She has a number of offers, believed to include another revolution film, the Martin Brest-directed Gigli, which stars Ben Affleck.

She is also aligned with the drama Taking Lives, which director Tony Scott is circling, as well as the Columbia thriller TikTok, for which a number of directors, including Blade Helmer's Steve Norrington, have been mentioned.

man, let me tell you that it's like, you want to look back somehow and be

like, no, I don't know.

It is because it's more, more interesting and it feels like a different world.

Anyway, so Goyer was friends with both Blade director Stephen Norrington and Blade II director Guillermo del Toro, and asked for their advice.

Del Toro did conceptual artwork for the film and was thanked in the end credits.

Goyer's original plans for the third Blade movie were very different to what ended up on screen.

This guy's in black leather and has guns let's just do the matrix again but i think del toro resists that urge

no for sure um i was so i mean i would say amount i would say is about the same but i would say you definitely are right in the uh kind of uh variety that we get and then a little bit more uh like kind of distinct as far as like it feeling more uh a little bit more uh super powered like you had mentioned uh but of course i do think you know del toro being a you know, uh, horror director, uh, compared to Steven Norrington of the last film, uh, definitely brings a lot more of the horror sensibilities, you know, whether it be the look of the Reapers with, uh, you know, the design, the split open mouth and like the, like the little, uh, tongue sucker that comes out with the little fangs on like it just the whole thing about it is just it's gross it's nasty it's awesome it looks like it's very like i don't know it's very simple like like in a way it's just like well hey what if their mouths just like opened more and there was more mouth in there it's like oh my god that's terrifying

Apparently, the concept before he kind of arrived was that their mouths would be in their hands, like in their palms.

And so they would just kind of grab someone.

Hulk! [birds chirping] Blade, released August 21st, 1998.

This is directed by Stephen Norrington, uh, who was a longtime effects artist and sculptor for Stan Winston and Rick Baker.

Um, he, uh, did a movie, uh, before this that is a bit of a cult classic, apparently, Death Machine.

Um, but then, uh, the movie that put a nail, uh, in his, uh, directing career, uh-

It's a very famous anime that studios for years, specifically Warner Brothers, has tried to make a live-action version of this film going back to the early 2000s.

The likes of Stephen Norrington from Blade, Amit Kuletsara, Taika Waititi, they all, at some point, were attached to direct this thing, could not crack it.

They approached Jordan Peele about it.

He passed, but...

I'm gonna do a quick review of the original nineteen ninety-eight Blade movie.

Starring Wesley Snipes and directed by Stephen Norrington, this was a fantastic introduction to the Blade character, who over the years has been adapted, uh, from, of course, making his first appearance back in Tomb of Dracula, the, the classic nineteen seventies series, and slowly evolved and so forth.

He actually then had a nice run on the Amazing Spider-Man, the Saturday morning TV show of the nineteen nineties before solidifying in nineteen ninety-eight with Blade, which, of interesting note, this is the first successful Marvel adaptation up to this point.

Like, they've had many debacles.

He brings much of the prieless and his attitude perfectly to the role of this seamless slaughter of vampires is brilliant.

He gets some nice, uh, pairing off with the villain with Stephen Dorff, which is weird because Stephen Dorff, not really, not really a tall actor compared to Wesley Snipes, but he, he really brings some gravitas to, uh, Deacon Frost, a very cool twist on the character.

And Stephen Norrington does some cool action and some, uh, great fight scenes.

So yeah, a lot of fun, great va- visual effects.

Marvel superhero movies that we recall.

That director is Stephen Norrington.

He directed Blade and his first film was a film called Death Machine from 94.

Have you seen it, Mars?

This guy sounds familiar and looks familiar.

Stephen Norrington.

Okay, I don't have him.

He was the director of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.