Danny Vamps It Up

Danny John-Jules signs up for Blade 2.

5 January, 2001

Having suffered behind the pointed teeth of the Cat since Red Dwarf was first let out of the bag (geddit?), Danny John-Jules has recently signed up for the sequel to the smash hit vampire action flick Blade.

Blade 2: Bloodlust will again feature Wesley Snipes as the half-man, half-vampire out for revenge. The plot apparently centres around a group of mutated vampires who will even feed off their own kind - thus threatening both the human and vampire populations.

The film will be directed by Guillermo del Toro, who has already scared the pants off audiences with Cronos - the tale of a kind of vampiric clockwork insect - and the Mira Sorvino sci-fi chiller Mimic.

Danny is just a part of the largely European flavour the film is taking (an attempt to cut down on the cost of importing garlic, perhaps?). Aside from del Toro, Alien: Resurrection's multi-lingual Ron Pearlman and Britain's own Luke 'Bros' Goss are also slated to appear alongside Snipes and Kris Kristofferson, who reprises his role of Whistler... even though he was killed off in the first movie.

Shooting of the $55 million movie begins in the Czech Republic's Prague Studios in the Spring.