BLADE: TRINITY Director Weighs In On Patton Oswalt's Claims Wesley Snipes Strangled Him On Set

BLADE: TRINITY Director Weighs In On Patton Oswalt's Claims Wesley Snipes Strangled Him On Set

Blade: Trinity director David S. Goyer has shared his take on Patton Oswalt's shocking comments that Wesley Snipes choked the filmmaker on set, but are we any closer to figuring out what really happened?

By JoshWilding - Jul 23, 2021 03:07 AM EST
Filed Under: Blade Trinity
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Blade: Trinity served as a terrible conclusion to the Vampire Hunter's big screen trilogy, but it's no secret that the production was a troubled one. 

Way back in 2012, Patton Oswalt claimed that lead star Wesley Snipes "tried to strangle the director, David Goyer." He added that the filmmaker then enlisted some bikers he met in a strip club to act as his security and when the actor saw them, he "freaked out and went back to his trailer." 

Oswalt even alleged that Snipes would only communicate with Goyer via Post-it notes after a disagreement over which of them should quit the project, and that he'd sign them "From Blade."

Last year, Snipes would deny those claims, arguing that "[people] are predisposed to believing the Black guy is always the problem," claiming that, if it was true, he'd have been arrested. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Goyer finally responded to these dualling accounts of what happened, but chose his words extremely carefully. 

"Let’s just say I have tremendous respect for Wesley as an actor. He used to be a friend. We’re not friends anymore. I am friends with Patton, and I worked with Patton since, so...I don’t think anyone involved in that film had a good experience on that film. Certainly, I didn’t. I don’t think anybody involved with that film is happy with the results. It was a very tortured production."

It feels like we may never know what really took place on the set of Blade: Trinity, but you can certainly read into Goyer's comments in a number of ways. Thankfully, the future of the franchise looks bright with Bassam Tariq set to take the helm of a reboot for Marvel Studios starring Mahershala Ali.

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manofillintent1
manofillintent1 - 7/23/2021, 3:27 AM
JonAwesome
JonAwesome - 7/23/2021, 3:32 AM
@manofillintent1 - I wonder how much it cost the film to make those CGI eyes just because Snipes didn’t want to cooperate.
Darth258
Darth258 - 7/23/2021, 4:59 AM
@JonAwesome - What's the story behind that?
ElricReturns
ElricReturns - 7/23/2021, 3:32 AM
I honestly don't understand how people hold Blade Trinity up to scrutiny but give the other 2 a pass. Perhaps back in the day the difference in quality from the 1st to last was more noticeable, I seem to remember a quality dip too, but you watch these movies now and it's the same kinda campy Gothic Underworld hyper stylized post Matrix cheese-fest. The third isn't any more or less camp or over the top as the others. The acting in these movies is always enjoyable but not very great, but at least Trinity gives up eye candy and some charisma in the form of Beal and Deadpool: The College Years.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 7/23/2021, 4:16 AM
@ElricReturns - I enjoyed Trinity, but it definitely is my least favorite of the 3. But you're right, it wasn't any more cheesy than the others. I do feel like Blade 2 was the best. It felt like the most serious of them all.

I will say that the decision to use the Blood God in the first one was weird, because nothing can possibility top that as far as threats go. But then again they had no idea of a sequel would ever get made, so I get it.
eddyxx
eddyxx - 7/23/2021, 4:52 AM
@ElricReturns -

No sorry but the first Blade movie blows away it’s sequels.
ElvenKingSlayer
ElvenKingSlayer - 7/23/2021, 4:53 AM
@ElricReturns - the first one was the first movie to use bullet time which matrix get's all credit for. Kinda like the Spielberg effect Hitchcock first used..
SethBullock
SethBullock - 7/23/2021, 5:10 AM
@ElricReturns - Blade 1 was released before The Matrix, and I would say that the Wachowskis ripped off a lot of things from Blade (and from Dark City, and from a million other sources, but Blade and Dark City were incredibly obvious since they were released just a year earlier).

And Blade 1 and 2 were/are like a billion times better than 3.
Twenty23Three
Twenty23Three - 7/23/2021, 5:24 AM
@ElricReturns - for me they’re mostly on par during a period of time where everyone had to be wearing tench coats and shades. Trinity, whilst not any better or worse in my eyes, just didn’t feel in the same universe as the first two. They never felt like the kind of universe where literally Dracula would show up
tripttwe
tripttwe - 7/23/2021, 7:20 AM
@ElricReturns - Blade was before the first Matrix.
MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 7/23/2021, 8:24 AM
@ElricReturns - I've never said it, but I've always found the Blade movies a good bit overrated. All the same, Trinity is definitely the noticeable worst of the bunch by a proper margin. Snipes just didn't seem to care, the continued use of need-to-be-cool new characters was unexciting, and from the moment they made their reincarnated Dracula name himself "Drake", well...

ElricReturns
ElricReturns - 7/23/2021, 8:33 AM
@ElvenKingSlayer - I thought Equilibrium was the first to use Billet Time.
ElricReturns
ElricReturns - 7/23/2021, 8:42 AM
@ElvenKingSlayer - nevermind you are 100% correct and im remembering wrong. Man, my memory is getting BAD!
JonC
JonC - 7/23/2021, 10:08 AM
@ElricReturns - My problem with most of the Blade stories is that a good portion of the vampires are just douche bags...
Mugens
Mugens - 7/23/2021, 3:33 AM
Goyer should have never been given the reigns to begin with. Not sure what happened back then and really don't care at this point, but for me Blade II was the highlight of the trilogy, which is no surprise given the Director of that film.
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 7/23/2021, 3:43 AM
>Snipes deadass chocked that bitch Gayer.

>
>WITH NO REPERCUSSIONS!!!

>When accused by /ourguy/ Patton, Snipes pulls the race card

>Kek

>At the end of the day, he's not behind bars, to that kinda black vampire ass privilege gotta be worth something, innit?


HOLY SHIT, THIS WHOLE THING SOUNDS EXTREMELY BASED!!!


For this Neil Gayman cosplayer at least, i'm sure he approves! :3

To me tho...it's sad af.
WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 7/23/2021, 3:52 AM
@Doomsday8888 - “choked”… “biased”
eddyxx
eddyxx - 7/23/2021, 4:55 AM
@WruceBayne -

No he definitely means based. It’s 4Chan lingo hence the Bane gif and the >s.
Evansly
Evansly - 7/23/2021, 5:48 AM
@Doomsday8888 - "Neil Gayman cosplayer" that is damn hilarious!
WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 7/23/2021, 6:01 AM
@eddyxx - oh, I stand corrected. I’m definitely not up on the 4chan stuff. I figured he meant “biased” because Flash (yeah I couldn’t remember his name) choked that lady on camera
MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 7/23/2021, 8:26 AM
@Doomsday8888 - Kudos to you, because when I read ">WITH NO REPERCUSSIONS!!!" it was just second nature that I read it exactly in Bane's voice.
4thMaster
4thMaster - 7/23/2021, 10:47 AM
@Doomsday8888 - "Neil Gayman cosplayer"
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 7/23/2021, 3:47 AM
I wonder if snipes choked him because he was trying to ice skate uphill and he just wasn’t feeling that
McMurdo
McMurdo - 7/23/2021, 7:03 AM
@MyCoolYoung - he’s the OG Ezra
Chuck420Taylor
Chuck420Taylor - 8/10/2021, 6:54 PM
@McMurdo - I HATE the fact I actually like your comment. kudos to you
WakandanQueen
WakandanQueen - 7/23/2021, 3:50 AM
Hot take: Blade 2>Blade
99OPTIMISTPRIME
99OPTIMISTPRIME - 7/23/2021, 4:00 AM
@WakandanQueen -
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 7/23/2021, 4:18 AM
@WakandanQueen - they are both awesome, but Blade 2 was a little better.
Fares
Fares - 7/23/2021, 5:07 AM
@WakandanQueen - I don't think it's that hot. Although I can see reasons for liking the first one more.
99OPTIMISTPRIME
99OPTIMISTPRIME - 7/23/2021, 3:57 AM
If you listen to the film commentary with Goyer, Ryan Reynolds, and Jessica Biel, they don't give ANY indication that either production or Wesley Snipes, were problematic.
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