Blade: Trinity the 'worst experience' of the director's life

David S. Goyer says making Blade: Trinity was the 'worst experience' of his career.

The first two Blade movies, directed by Stephen Norrington and Guillermo del Toro respectively, were huge hits both critically and commercially.

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There was high hopes for Blade: Trinity after it was announced that Ryan Reynolds and Jessica Biel would be joining the cast alongside Wesley Snipes as the titular hero, with Goyer writing and directing.

However, the production was a mess and various stories have emerged regarding Snipes' temperament and attitude on set. He allegedly smoked weed in his trailer constantly and even physically threatened Goyer at points, while not taking kindly to the screen time given to Reynolds in particular.

It wasn't a happy time for Goyer.

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"The worst experience of my professional career," he said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast when asked about the movie.

"It was an incredibly fraught experience it was personally very difficult. I was very depressed afterwards. You talked about one of the nadirs it was definitely that this is even before the movie came out. Despite all of that I still think Wesley is one of the greatest actors of the current generation and it's a tragedy that he's not acting as much as-- I mean the guy is brilliant uh he was going through a lot of trouble at the time.

"All that tax stuff was happening right as we started and  in fact on our first day of filming there was this whole kerfuffle because the IRS had withheld like a bunch of his money and that was all going on in the background and it was...that's kind of all I'll say about it for now but it was it was a mess."

Blade: Trinity cast: Wesley Snipes Ryan Reynolds, Jessica Biel, Kris Kristofferson, Dominic Purcell, Parker Posey and Triple H

Snipes denies assaulting Blade director

For his part, Snipes denies assaulting Goyer, saying he would have been arrested had he done so.

"If I had tried to strangle David Goyer, you probably wouldn't be talking to me now," he told the Guardian three years ago.

"A black guy with muscles strangling the director of a movie is going to jail, I guarantee you."

The Blade franchise is set to continue within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with Mahershala Ali taking on the role.