...and glean a thing or two on IRON MAN, and, most importantly, have a definitive answer to the question: When they make ?x comic book? into a movie, it?s time for the genre to go away for a while.Since we last talked, or, you know, that interview that is now lost to my technological travails.

You have to say that. You have to say that you lost it.

Oh, I know.* This is the second go-round with you, and?

(Laughs.)

I?m just trying to monopolize your time.

And I have to preface that I have a bad cold, but it doesn?t matter because it?s print.

We were talking about the ending of BLADE TRINITY at the time. You were tinkering with it and could possibly go in two different directions with it. Are you still working on that?

There are a lot of rumors about the ending, none of which are completely right. I?ve seen a lot of people saying that he dies, or that they changed the ending so that he doesn?t die. I don?t want to give anything away, obviously, but I love it when I read stuff online that is put forward with such complete (authority), and then it becomes canon because other websites pick it up and you just sit there, shake your head and say, ?No, you don?t know. That?s not even remotely what?s happening.? But there are definitely different endings that we?ve been playing around with, some versions of which will show up on the DVD as deleted scenes. We?re doing a third test in the coming weeks, and that will be the ending that was scripted. We?ve never tested that ending, so we?ll see how that goes. There were also a lot of differences of opinion as to ? and, unfortunately, until the movie comes out, I can?t fully reveal this. But there was a lot of internal dissent between different parties as to what way to go with the ending.

Between New Line and yourself?

And even Marvel, too. It?s actually been quite the happy family in the main, but there are just a lot of different people with wildly opinions about how, as the third movie, it should end. Everyone was very passionate about it, and I was surprised at the positions some of the party took.