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Next time you’re walking around your local comic book store, stop a moment and check out that zit-covered kid digging through his wallet for a few bucks to buy the latest issue of X-Men. In about fifteen years, that kid could be making the movies you pay 10 bucks to see on a Friday night. About a month ago, on the movie news and gossip web page Dark Horizons, the activities of writer/director David Goyer and his latest directing effort, Blade Trinity, (opening December 8), were given more attention than just about anything else on the site. As the man who helped jump-start Marvel Comics’ film division with the action horror classic Blade and in part paved the way for everything from Spiderman to The Incredibles, Goyer is someone in Hollywood who genre fans not only listen to, but can trust. Goyer has spread his creative wings in recent years by not only dabbling in comic-book writing with JSA (Justice Society of America) which he writes with Geoffrey Johns, but with directing. His first film, the painfully under-seen drama Zig Zag, premiered at Ann Arbor’s own Michigan Theater, where Goyer introduced the film to a packed audience of friends, family and fans. Goyer has made the seemingly impossible leap from local comic stores to Hollywood now seem completely possible. The Ann Arbor Paper had to pleasure of catching up with him as he dashed through the area promoting Blade Trinity. Ann
Arbor Paper: So how’s it going? A2P:
Has the reaction to the new film been pretty positive so far? A2P:
Tell me and our readers a little bit about your history in Ann Arbor. A2P:
What were some of the inspirations in Ann Arbor that made you desire
to want to be in the film business? A2P:
Wow, what year was that around? A2P:
Right around the time he wrote Raiders of the Lost Ark and Return
of the Jedi! A2P:
When you were writing Blade Trinity, did you have any idea you’d
end up directing it? A2P:
I saw that when you presented it at the Michigan Theater. A2P:
So you’re the screenwriter of the summer’s upcoming
Batman Begins film as well right? A2P:
Are there any dream comic book characters you’d love to bring
to the big screen? A2P:
The amount of tickets sold to comic book movies like Spiderman 2
don’t equal up to the amount of actual Spiderman comic books
that are sold every month. Why? A2P:
How did you ever come up with the line from the first Blade movie,
“Some motherfucker’s always trying to ice skate uphill?” A2P:
Do you feel like in Hollywood you’ve been wrongly classified
as just the guy who does kick-ass comic book action movies? A2P:
So you feel like after the experience of being involved in big movies
like Blade and Batman so much recently that you’d like to
go back to making a little film like Zig Zag again? A2P:
So what’s next? A2P:
Finally, here’s the question all of our readers have been
dying to know. If Blade was kidnapped by a group of vampires who
were obsessed with sports and challenged Blade to one sport and
he could pick it, what would it be? A2P:
Definitely! Why javelin? |
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