TV/Movies Megathread

[Barrister]

The development of Blade 3 was infamously difficult, with (IIRC) Wesley Snipes and the director reduced to communicating in writing as they hated each other so much.

[Savonarola]

The development of Blade 3 was infamously difficult, with (IIRC) Wesley Snipes and the director reduced to communicating in writing as they hated each other so much.

According to IMDB Wesley only communicated to anyone via post-it notes, only responded when addressed a "Blade" and spent all his time in his trailer smoking marijuana.  (He was also some sort of Sovereign Citizen at the time.)

[Barrister]

I looked it up - a lot of the stories appear to come from Patton Oswalt here:

https://tv.avclub.com/patton-oswalt-on-his-most-memorable-roles-and-giving-li-1798234688

It also mentions Snipes only came to set for close-ups - his body double did everything else.  Which led to a lot of terrible jokes being told, and then them cutting to a stone-faced Blade.

Also Snipes went to choke-out the director one day, so that night he paid for a bunch of bikers to pretend to be his body guards and freak Snipes out.

[Sheilbh]

Watching a UK police procedural called *Line of Duty*. So odd to see a modern day gritty cop show where the cops do not carry handguns ... I'm so used the US type of show of this sort. Pretty good so far.

I enjoy Line of Duty a lot.

There was an article - I think by Chris Orr at the Atlantic - on this about how the lack of guns (and presence of CCTV) changes the style and pace of UK police procedurals. I think he'd been watching Broadchurch and Happy Valley (which are both excellent). Though for a Brit procedural Line of Duty is still quite high-paced and very popular. The latest series had 13-15million people tuning in each week

[The Larch]

The development of Blade 3 was infamously difficult, with (IIRC) Wesley Snipes and the director reduced to communicating in writing as they hated each other so much.

Yeah, apparently he really resented having the characters of Biel and Reynolds feature so heavily in the film, thus eclipsing him, and wouldn't talk to them either during the shooting of the film.

[Valmy]

I wondered why Snipes just vanished from movies after the early 2000s. I guess insanity is the reason why.

[Barrister]

I wondered why Snipes just vanished from movies after the early 2000s. I guess insanity is the reason why.

Going to jail for not paying his taxes probably didn't help...

[The Larch]

I wondered why Snipes just vanished from movies after the early 2000s. I guess insanity is the reason why.

After Blade Trinity he has mostly done direct to video movies only, except for a couple of titles that went to he big screen, like the 3rd Expendables movie. On top of that, as Beeb said, he spent a couple of years in jail for his tax conviction.

[Jacob]

When I was in LA to record game audio back in the day, I heard it said that Wesley Snipes was a total dick to work with. And that was, like, their go-to example without being prompted to bring up the topic. So yeah, he had a bit of a reputation.

[Oexmelin]

There's even footage of a clueless interviewer asking Reynolds how it was to work with Snipes... and Reynolds answers something like: "You're... your're joking, right?".

[Josquius]

I looked it up - a lot of the stories appear to come from Patton Oswalt here:

https://tv.avclub.com/patton-oswalt-on-his-most-memorable-roles-and-giving-li-1798234688

It also mentions Snipes only came to set for close-ups - his body double did everything else.  Which led to a lot of terrible jokes being told, and then them cutting to a stone-faced Blade.

Also Snipes went to choke-out the director one day, so that night he paid for a bunch of bikers to pretend to be his body guards and freak Snipes out.

Huh. So sounds like Blade 3 was originally meant to be a Day Breakers.
That was a good film.

I do love a good tale of disastrous productions

[HVC]

Just watched the trailer for the friends reunion. It was kind of depressing.

[Admiral Yi]

Just watched the trailer for the friends reunion. It was kind of depressing.

Don't ever go back.

Has there ever been a reunion special that didn't suck?  Including the Disney Star Wars.

[The Larch]

Just watched the trailer for the friends reunion. It was kind of depressing.

Don't ever go back.

Has there ever been a reunion special that didn't suck?  Including the Disney Star Wars.

During lockdown a few shows from the recent past did online reunions for charity purposes and some of them were genuinelly cool.

[crazy canuck]

There's even footage of a clueless interviewer asking Reynolds how it was to work with Snipes... and Reynolds answers something like: "You're... your're joking, right?".

Another funny bit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKRxK1Vdq8A