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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Showrunner Noxon Developing Vampire Series Based on del Toro’s Novel THE STRAIN!!

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“Buffy The Vampire Slayer” and “Angel” writer-producer Marti Noxon is working with producing partner Dawn Parouse Olmstead to bring Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s “The Strain” novels to the small screen.

The books are about a microorganism that either kills you or turns you into a vampire.

If memory serves, the novels evolved out of a proposed TV series that couldn’t find any takers. Perhaps del Toro hopes having a TV-vampire vet scripting will garner the project some small-screen traction.

Noxon and Parouse Olmstead’s other projects include “Gigantic,” a series about the teen children of celebrities coming early next year to the TEENick cable channel, and they are developing a series about a feminist pornographer for Diane Keaton and HBO.

Find all of Variety’s story on what Noxon and Parouse Olmstead (whose joint company is called The Grady Twins in homage to “The Shining”) are up to here.


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Hmmm
by wonderllama
Jul 30th, 2009
01:46:38 AM
Uh oh Here come the Noxon haters...
by Cartman86
Jul 30th, 2009
01:55:23 AM
Vampires Suck, We Want Clowns on TV
by iownyou
Jul 30th, 2009
02:00:22 AM
YET ANOTHER SERIES ABOUT VAMPIRES...
by Mullah Omar
Jul 30th, 2009
02:17:51 AM
Alternatives...
by wonderllama
Jul 30th, 2009
02:23:54 AM
Vampires are the new Cop/Doctors show
by Miyamoto_Musashi
Jul 30th, 2009
02:48:01 AM
Getting my fix from True Blood
by Miyamoto_Musashi
Jul 30th, 2009
02:55:20 AM
Didn't Del Toro say something like
by SecretDwarfHooker
Jul 30th, 2009
02:58:27 AM
This isn't your Buffy or Twighlight...
by FrenchBastard03
Jul 30th, 2009
03:06:05 AM
Er.. Twilight rather..*
by FrenchBastard03
Jul 30th, 2009
03:08:11 AM
I sincerely hope you mean "I am Legend" the book.
by Shan
Jul 30th, 2009
03:25:12 AM
Wasn't there a British tv show once about a virus
by Amy Chasing
Jul 30th, 2009
03:29:45 AM
Nothing wrong with vampires
by MonkeyManReturns
Jul 30th, 2009
03:45:48 AM
Ultraviolet it was ...
by Shan
Jul 30th, 2009
06:50:47 AM
nother vamp series!
by H_woodExecMakingStupidDecision s
Jul 30th, 2009
06:53:02 AM
I found Ultravilot ot be an Ultra Let-downn
by Yeti
Jul 30th, 2009
08:11:05 AM
The idea has promise
by UCB Agent1
Jul 30th, 2009
09:03:32 AM
Bobo says Christina "wants it" at The Queens Motor Inn
by Petey_Wheatstraw_The_Devils_So n_In_Law
Jul 30th, 2009
09:49:40 AM
H_woodExecMakingStupidDecision s True Blood/Angel similarities?
by turketron_2
Jul 30th, 2009
09:58:51 AM
You'd almost think vamps are real...
by Bass Ackwards
Jul 30th, 2009
10:33:28 AM
The book sucked (har, har)
by frozen01
Jul 30th, 2009
10:39:08 AM
"Their blood turned to milk filled with little worm creatures"
by turketron_2
Jul 30th, 2009
11:45:03 AM
Hmmm...
by Mr.FTW
Jul 30th, 2009
12:14:11 PM
frozen01, I agree, the book wasn't very good.
by johnnyangel
Jul 30th, 2009
12:37:22 PM
Amy Chasling - Ultraviolet the series
by Hint_of_Smegma
Jul 30th, 2009
12:46:58 PM
Ugh, Diane Keaton
by photoboy
Jul 30th, 2009
12:57:59 PM
/sigh
by ziah_vaempiir
Jul 30th, 2009
03:36:15 PM
by followers...
by ziah_vaempiir
Jul 30th, 2009
03:41:13 PM
well, if you want to make vampires depressing
by punto
Jul 30th, 2009
04:53:35 PM
New series ideas
by FastEddie8139
Jul 30th, 2009
08:21:26 PM
MORE
by FastEddie8139
Jul 30th, 2009
08:25:02 PM
I read it....it sucked...no pun intended.
by MJohnson
Jul 30th, 2009
09:19:55 PM
Marti Noxon is incompetent,
by felwithe
Jul 30th, 2009
09:43:08 PM
last 2 seasons of buffy
by Adelai Niska
Jul 31st, 2009
01:19:36 AM
Why does this woman keep getting gigs?
by AnnoyYou
Jul 31st, 2009
02:12:03 AM
"she singlehandedly (well, with Whedon's tacit approval) ruined"
by felwithe
Jul 31st, 2009
04:51:22 AM
@ thangos
by ziah_vaempiir
Jul 31st, 2009
12:53:34 PM
CSI Transylvania
by LordJiggy
Jul 31st, 2009
01:50:24 PM
NY Times Vampire Op-Ed by del Toro & Hogan
by growltiger
Jul 31st, 2009
03:27:35 PM
Enough with the vampires!
by Cutelittleartist
Jul 31st, 2009
07:13:22 PM
Actually, Buffy's Season Of Sex Was Great!!!
by Media Messiah
Jul 31st, 2009
08:52:39 PM
Marti: Sorry For The Misspelling, Girl!!!
by Media Messiah
Jul 31st, 2009
08:56:19 PM
Cutelittleartist: Larry Talbot was awesome
by growltiger
Jul 31st, 2009
09:17:07 PM
I'm reading the book right now
by antonphd
Aug 1st, 2009
11:20:50 PM

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