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The gang's all here for BLADE 3

While writer-producer David Goyer has been talking up potential plot points for a third film in the vampire hunting BLADE franchise, never has he stated that the project would be a definite go... until now.

"It's pretty much a go, unless the tracking is so completely off the mark," reveals Goyer while promoting BLADE 2. "But it's pretty much a go."

Additionally, the scribe goes on to describe the project in detail, revealing similarities to a certain Frank Miller comic book.

"If we get our way in the third film, it's going to take place 25 years after BLADE 2," says Goyer. "Blade, because he's half human/half vampire, he ages more slowly he would still be played by [Wesley Snipes]. But when the third film opens and Guillermo [del Toro] wants to come back and we'd do it together nobody's seen Blade for like 15 years. Nobody knows where he is. And the world has changed and the vampires have actually taken over. In BLADE 3, the vampires are the status quo. They've imprisoned all the humans. The humans are the slave force and are in concentration camps... things like that. In a way, BLADE 3 would sort of go the way of THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS. In the first DARK KNIGHT story, nobody's heard from Batman in 10 years and the world has kind of gone to shit."

Del Toro confirms his involvement with a third BLADE feature, and admits to having his own selfish reasons for helming the above-described project.

"[I'll be involved] if they like the take that David and I have on it which is the vampires have won because I would like to do SPARTACUS with vampires," says del Toro. "It would be the next logical consequence of this, but we will see. Aside from working with David, I do not ever want to direct a movie that I don't write. I have never done that in the past and I don't want to do it again except with David because he has a very good sensibility for the comic book pacing and defining the characters on the go."

However, Snipes, Goyer, and del Toro may not be the only alumni returning for BLADE 3.

"Kris [Kristofferson] will probably come back," reveals Goyer. "If its 20 years in the future, I think it might be in flashback. I don't know we'd have to figure it out. I asked Kris in Prague if he would come back for BLADE 3 and he said, 'Yeah, I'd have to.' And I said, 'Why?' And he said, 'Because my kids love these movies and they love that I'm in them.' And there may even be a way that we might bring Luke Goss [who plays the Reaper vampire Nomack] back."