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2001-06-20 14:15:41 CST

SciFi.Com reports the following:
Matt Schulze, who plays a vampire named Chupa in the upcoming Blade 2, told SCI FI Wire that the sequel to 1999's hit Blade features villains that are even worse than bloodsuckers. "I'm the leader of this Vietnam kind of crew that gets hired," he said in an interview. "Five people--me, Ron Perlman and a couple other actors--go in to kill these reapers. A reaper is this half-ghost, devil type creature that has the ability to fly. You have to see it. The story is that they've captured Prague. I'm fighting with Blade because I don't like his leadership, so I'm a rebel in that sense, but I'm actually a good guy in the whole element of the picture."

Chupa gets in on a lot of action scenes, including a martial-arts battle with 20 reapers and a scene where Schulze said Chupa beats Kris Kristofferson's character, Whistler, to death. That makes two deaths for Whistler in as many Blade movies.

Though there is wirework in the film, Schulze did all of his fighting on the ground--either hand to hand or with guns. In one of the gun battles, Schulze said, "There's one scene that I have where I kill 150 people, and the whole place blows up, and it's $100,000 a shot, so it's just amazing." Blade 2 is tentatively set for a February 2002 release.