
Unless you’re still suffering from that New Year’s drink on, you’ve noticed the trailers for Sperig brother’s vampire epic, Daybreakers. I’ll be the first to admit that the trailer’s “What if Blade had failed?” vibe makes my forehead wrinkle in not so good ways, so I am not expecting much and am prayerful that I will be pleasantly shocked.
Daybreakers features Ethan Hawke and Sam Neil and answers the question left on the cutting room floor after the first Blade movie (and subsequently answered in the travesty known as Blade: Trinity to fill in a gigantic plot hole).
Namely, “If everyone on earth is a vampire, where in the holy hell will all the human blood need to feed them come from?”
I have to say that the thing that intriges me most isn’t the struggle for the vampire cure. It’s the whole notion of Sam Neil’s vampire antagonist character and his reasons for wanting to destroy the vampire cure.
He doesn’t seem to necessarily enjoy being a vampire, so he isn’t driven by the traditional vampire movie plot motivation of needing to stay at the top of the food chain. The root of his opposition is pure capitalism.
Simply put, the cure will prevent him from exploiting the bank accounts of the world’s bloodsucking population by selling them an untested (and mutagenic) blood substitute while keeping the supply of pure human blood limited and driving up prices for the rare commodity!
That, folks, is as fucking epic of a dig at corporate greed as you’ll ever see.
Daybreakers hits theaters tomorrow (January 8th), so I will see you at the flicks, beloved readers.
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