Blade II (2002)

New this week Trivia: "Blade II" is the only film Guillermo del Toro has directed where he was not a credited writer. (Though he did do some uncredited touch-up work, mainly on the dialogue).

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Trivia: Whenever you see Scud, he's wearing a t-shirt with the logo of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defence (B.P.R.D.). The B.P.R.D. is the agency that Hellboy, another comic book character, works for. Hellboy is the next movie to be directed by Guillermo del Toro, Blade II's director.

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Trivia: As well as the Scud and del Toro Hellboy connections, Ron Perlman, who plays Reinhardt, plays Hellboy, and Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy, helped create the look of Blade II as a concept artist. Del Toro and Mignola got together during the making of Blade II to talk about making Hellboy into a movie.

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Trivia: Michael Jackson was supposed to make a guest appearance in the House Of Pain. If you watch the deleted scenes, Nyssa watches a man empty human entrails from a box in one of the rooms upstairs. This part was supposed to be Jackson, be he had to drop out.

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Trivia: The way Blade slices Reinhardt in half is a tribute to the anime film "Vampire Hunter D" in which the main character disposes of numerous enemies (vampire or otherwise) in the exact same manner.

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Trivia: At the end of the film, Rush is killed by Blade, who is hiding behind the curtain at a peep-show booth. In the 1996 film "The Crow: City of Angels", the lead character Ashe surprises a villain in the same manner. Both films were written by David S. Goyer. Goyer had disowned "The Crow: City of Angels" however, due to studio-enforced edits, and decided to re-use the scene in this film.

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Trivia: Matt Schulze, the actor who plays Chupa, was actually in Blade 1 as Crease, the vampire who gets his hand chopped off by Blade's sword handle in the Vampire Archives. It was actually his first real movie role.

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Trivia: During the ending of the film, when we see Rush in the sex shop, pay close attention to the... *ahem*... dildos on the counter in front of him. Eagle-eyed viewers will notice that one of the dildos is actually the elongated tongue of one of the "Reaper" vampires seen throughout the film. It was left a generic "fleshy" color to help it blend in with the dildos on the counter, but it's there.

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Trivia: According to series star Wesley Snipes, the scene in which Reinhardt snidely asks Blade "Can you blush?" is based on an actual incident from his life.

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