UndergroundOnline's Dan Epstein recently interviewed the man who has worked tobring many comics to the big screen, David Goyer. Goyertalked about some of his past and his future writing endeavors on comicbook movies.
Epstein told Goyer that hebelieved with Stephen Norrington directing, Nicholas Cage starring, andGoyer's script that the Ghost Rider film had potential tobe better than the first Blade film (C2F has previously reportedthat Norrington, Cage, and Goyer are no longer attached to the Ghost Rider film). Goyer agreed with Epstein. He said, "It was goingto be dark, no question, and a really amazing movie. Who knows what's goingto happen with it now?" He told Epstein that the fate of the movie is currentlyup in the air.
Goyer talked to Epstein aboutone of his Marvel scripts that so far has gone unproduced. A while backGoyer wrote the script for a Venom feature film. He does not recallthe experience fondly, "Yeah, that was a bit of a [pause and a breath].It wasn't great [laughs]. I never was a big Venom fan and, at the time,the people at New Line really wanted me to do it. It's one of the few timesthat - even though I love New Line - I allowed myself to be talked intosomething."
According to Goyer it wasn'tthat hard to write a Venom movie without Spider-Man. Goyer explainedVenom's spider logo as being the containment mark of an arachnid alienspecies that lives on the planet where the symbiote had it's origins.
The film Venom was true tothe character's roots and not exactly a hero. Goyer said, "Venom wasn'ta great guy but, in the script, his enemy Carnage was infinitely worse.He was an anti-hero kind of like Blade. He's not a hero when the moviebegins. There was always a Jekyll and Hyde element to it. He was wrestlingwith the symbiote the whole time."
A Marvel character is oneof the reasons why Goyer is beginning to produce and direct the scriptsthat he writes. Goyer was not happy with the way the Nick Fury: Agentof Shield Tele-movie turned out. The film was one of many Goyer scriptsthat turned out far from how he envisioned it. Goyer said, "Thatwas another project that I had written and by the time they wanted to doit, I was on to something else, so I just said, forget it. Which, by theway, is why I'm starting to produce and direct more, because I was gettingtired of projects not getting out the way I wanted to. Nick Fury couldhave been better than it was I don't know what happened with that."
Goyer provided Epstein withsome info on Blade 3. As C2F reported, Goyer is scaling down the post-apocalypticplanet ruled by Vampires take for Blade 3. He said, "I'm comingoff that idea a little bit. Because I know that they are working on I AmLegend [based on the Richard Matheson book, on which The Omega Man wasbased]. I decided to tweak my idea."
Goyer revealed that oneplot under consideration for Blade 3 has the Daywalker's shadowwar against the undead brought out into the public light. Goyer said,"What we're talking about is actually having the vampires outing Bladeand letting the world know he exists. They turn the tables on him, so thecops and all of the humans are hunting Blade. They think he's crazy andthat he's a monster. The vampires are doing a PR smear on him."
Epstein ended the interviewby asking Goyer if he had any more comic book projects he was interestedin developing. Goyer said for the time being he doesn't want to do anymore comic book stuff. But he might be interested in developing some DCcomics' characters for the big screen if the chance came about.
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