"True Blood" is excellent. And I figure it's got another ... what? Three seasons ahead of it? It's the last hurrah of the vampire genre for a while.
Meanwhile, "Twilight's" the saturation point -- the place where the mythos becomes mainstream and defanged. I'd bet anything there's a few misguided efforts -- hey! The timing sounds right for the new "Buffy" movie! -- but I sincerely doubt anything will capture the public enthusiasm for a while.
Just guessing trends, which is akin to predicting the wind, but I'll bet my hunch bears out. I already know a lot of publishers are refusing to take vampire stories, because they're played out, and that's not a good sign.
Buffy without Joss is bad wrong bad wrong bad. Why don't they make it without vampires, too? Oh and the lead character can be a boy.
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Why don't they make it without vampires, too? Oh and the lead character can be a boy.
Or they could just get Laurell K. Hamilton to write the screenplay.
I think I might just watch the final movie in the Twilight franchise (I have no interest in watching the first 3) just because it is such a clusterfuck of a novel. I need to see how this will translate to film.
I hope it's cool.
Sure he does. I'm pretty sure he gets royalties, one way or the other. That being said, I'm also pretty sure he doesn't want to his signature creation trashed.
Still ... the reaction to the news is uggghhhhly, all around. I can't recall the last time I saw reaction to the possibility of a movie being so uniformly negative.
People learned their lesson from The Cat in the Hat.
The Adelaide Advertiser has a piece from The Hollywood Reporter.
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