Vampire Movies and Tv Shows on the Way: Here's Your Guide to Them
You’ve got to give writer/producer Rob Thomas credit. While somehow managing to make zombies (or at least one of them) endearing with the TV version of Vertigo Comics’ iZombie, he’s willing to give vampires an even shake. Thomas began adapting the 1987 feature The Lost Boys into a television series, and the reported approach being taken was an intriguing one. Assuming the proposed show goes seven seasons, it will follow the lead characters over the course of seventy years beginning in 1967, each season jumping forward a decade in time. If that actually comes to pass, it means that the show would ultimately move to 2037, offering up a unique look at vampires in the future. According to Thomas, the show will examine what it truly means to be immortal.
But as things are moving forward, there seems to have been some changes. Offers the official synopsis of the pilot, “After 25 years away from home, Lucy Emerson (who is at the end of her financial rope) returns home to the small California beach town of Santa Carla, to live with her father Frank and teach at the local high school. But Lucy either doesn’t know or doesn’t share the town’s big secret with her two sons, Michael and Sam: Santa Carla has a nest of vampires secreted inside the city limits, and they are getting hungrier by the day.”
In terms of casting, Teen Wolf star Tyler Posey is Michael, played by Jason Patric in the film. Kiele Sanchez is Lucy (Dianne Weist played the matriarch in the film), and Dakota Shapiro is David, leader of the vampires (Kiefer Sutherland in the film). The script is by Heather Mitchell and Catherine Hardwicke, who will direct. Catherine, of course directed Twilight. In an exclusive interview, she offered her opinion on the enduring popularity of vampires in our culture.
“If you go back 2000 years, you would read about the vampire legend in China. You’d read about it in Europe and all over the world because there’s just something about drinking blood. You know, is that going to give me special powers? Well, a little via a fountain of youth. It’s always intrigued people, the idea of what blood means to somebody if you take somebody else’s blood. Also, vampires are very sexy. I mean, you know, zombies are not too sexy. I know they’re very popular right now on a certain TV show, but you don’t really want to make out with a zombie. Whereas a vampire continuously kisses your neck and if they go too far and get too excited, they could bite you and kill you. I mean, there’s just so many layers to vampires, I think.”
