10 Action Movies That Prove Hollywood Hates You

If David S Goyer took the reins on Blade: Trinity with the intention of taking a wrecking ball to the franchise, he did a very respectable job. Like X-Men: The Last Stand, it’s a second sequel that does everything wrong and has no right to exist.

This is the one where Dracula (renamed “Drake”) is found in Iraq and Blade gets two new sidekicks in the form of Jessica Biel and Ryan Reynolds but, disappointingly for the writer who brought Batman and Superman into the Twenty-first century, Goyer makes little attempt made to extend the Blade universe. The behind the scenes stories, however, are fascinating.

According to Patton Oswalt, who plays tech guy Hedges, relations between Goyer and Wesley Snipes were so strained that the star attempted to strangle him on set, prompting the filmmaker to hire a biker gang he’d met in a strip club as bodyguards. Director and star communicated through post-it notes for the rest of the shoot (Wesley signed his “from Blade”), with a stand-in fulfilling the actor’s duties while Snipes smoked weed in his trailer.