Before Making SE7EN David Fincher Was Developing a BLADE Movie with David S. Goyer

David S. Goyer wrote all three scripts for the original Blade trilogy, which concluded with him directing Blade: Trinity. The first director that he actually started working with on the first film in the franchise was David Fincher. This was before Fincher made Se7en, and it was something he was enthusiastic about.

Goyer talked about this during an interview with the Happy Sad Confused podcast, saying:

“I developed a draft with Fincher before he had done Se7en. I think he had done Alien 3 and maybe he was developing Se7en. I developed a draft with him. I remember going to our producers office… There was this giant conference table. Fincher laid out 40 to 50 books of photography and art with post-it notes inside them. He said, ‘This is the movie.'”

Fincher had a grand vision for the movie and he proceeded to lay out his vision for one particular scene over the course of two hours in one of their meetings. Goyer talked about that meeting saying:

“[Fincher] took us on a two-hour tour around the table of the aesthetics of this scene, that character. It was such a fully fleshed out visual pitch… I had never seen something like that before. A lot of that thinking infused my further revisions.”

Eventually, Fincher stepped away from the project when it hit some development issues, and he turned his focus and attention to Se7en. It would’ve been interesting to see Fincher’s vision of Blade brought to life, but the movie ended up being helmed by Stephen Norrington and it turned out awesome!