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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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I don't mean to be rude to all these people writing and creating Vampire stories and shows, but seriously how many different stories can there BE as to how a vampire becomes a vampire...sheesh
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I don't hate her, but anything compared to Whedon is automatically inferior.
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I think I overdosed a few shows ago.
Come on writers, let's leave the vamps in their coffins for a bit and tread elsewhere. -
Have we had any reasonable Werewolf series of late? We could reanimate Chuck Connors!
How about a good Mummy series...
I loves me a vampire, but like Mullah says...we've overdosed. -
Which has a lot going for it, besides the vamps.
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"Remember when vampires were scary?" Bring it the fuck on. And good move Del Toro. You promoted the hell out of the book which got you on the NYTimes list, now you sell the rights to the book, and get a producer credit for every episode. BANK.
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Not to bash Buffy, which I did love, but after having just finished reading The Strain, these vamps aren't the romancing type. They fuck your shit up pretty good, pure and simple. No time for the sexy time. Think of it as more along the lines of I Am Legend.
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Not whatever that CGI generated mess was alleged to be.
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or some drug that turned you into a vampire? Was it called Ultraviolet or something? Anyway the benchmark for vampire shows isn't Buffy. Buffy was really very good so it's a bit unfair to use that. Try Forever Knight, or the recent not-quite-a-remake-but-close-enough Moonlight. If it's better than that cheese, like say True Blood, its good. If it's not cough*twilight*cough, its not good.
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If you like the 'horror' or sci-fi genres, you don't normally get much to chose from....now we have a fair selection...I am happy...otherwise what's left? Another cop show? Another show about doctors sleeping with each other? Another show about lawyers? Another MTV reality show? Another E! show about celebrity whores? Another show about pie-makers bringing dead people to life? Oh...sniff sniff...I so miss that show....boooohoooo!!!
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it is something original and wild like True Blood and not a procedural and/or a girlie soap like Twilight, Moonlight or the new CW show. Even Buffy and Angel had way too much teeniesoap and case of the week elements for my taste. Not even talking about the laughable make up effects and fight choreography.
A 30 Days of Night series for HBo or Showtime could be fantastic. I don't know enough about The Strain but I have trust in del Toro. -
Correct, it was a show from the UK from the late 90's which I thought was great. They never specifically said how you became a vampire in the show but it involved a battle between a shadowy government agency and an even more shadowy group of vampires. Ultraviolet light, carbon fibre ammunition, genetic engineering and electronically controlled coffins all made an appearance. Pity it didn't have a second season as it was great.
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as long it's not as shitty-stupid as Twilight. By the way, has anyone noticed the Angel similarities popping up in True Blood lately?
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Dark Shadows needs to be done as a campy 1960's movie with Willem Dafoe as Barnabas Collins.
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UltraViolet had excellent plotting. It wasn't just good vs evil. The vamps had a real plan, which may have been stolen for Blade.
It was only intended as a mini series. -
Heh. See what I did there? Annnnnnnyway, I think the strain will be more along the lines of 30 Days of Night then anything we've seen on TV yet.
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The book was a pretty good read, and had a lot of Blade 2 style vampire action, which is a plus. As long as they keep the spirit of the novel, I think this could help reverse the effeminate Vampire trend that started with Ann Rice and continues with the hell that is Twilight.
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Jul 30, 2009 9:49:40 AM CDT
Bobo says Christina "wants it" at The Queens Motor Inn
by petey_wheatstraw_the_devils_son_in_law
Oh, and as much as I'd like to read The Strain, I'd enjoy a slobbery beejay by Julie Strain even more. I have spoken!
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Jul 30, 2009 9:58:51 AM CDT
H_woodExecMakingStupidDecisions True Blood/Angel similarities?
by turketron_2
I'm guessing you're talking about the vampire flashbacks? Like the one with Bill from the newest episode, showing the terrible shit he used to do with his maker (in this case, the slaying of a married couple, followed by bloody sex next to the bodies)? Also, the fact that there's sort of "big-bads" this season, with the church people and Marianne the maenad is very cool.
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...by the amount of play they're getting in Hollywood.
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I love Guillermo del Toro, and was amused because I know someone named Chuck Hogan, so I picked up this book. It was okay, but in an effort to "make vampires scary again" everything cool was extracted from the myth for the purpose of this story. I mean, the vamps have stingers that shoot out from under their tongues. They drop excrement like flies everywhere they go. The "virus" replaced or killed off all of their organs... and I mean ALL of their organs. Their blood turned to milk filled with little worm creatures. This was a vampire story only in that the protagonists drank blood, and the writing was pretty basic... not professional-level at all. True Blood manages to keep all the "effeminite" qualities of vampires that made Interview popular without sacrificing the fact that they are efficient and powerful killing machines that should be feared. Add into the mix all of the other supernatural creatures that are popping up... More True Blood, less Twilight/Vampire Diaries/The Strain!
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Jul 30, 2009 11:45:03 AM CDT
"Their blood turned to milk filled with little worm creatures"
by turketron_2
Fucking.
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My buddy read the first book and from what he told me about it I don't see this working for TV, at least not on network TV.Also, I agree with the over exposure right now for vamps. I think some backlash is just around the corner. There will atleast be a lot from the Buffy fans for this show. I remember very vividly how on these very boards they blamed her for everything that lead to that show's demise from from the Riley character named after her dog to the end of the show. Buffy fans hated her.
One more thing, is anyone else tired of vampire science? Vampires need to be supernatural evil and not be governed or manipulated by science like being some kind of latent gene, micro organism or disease. -
Sort of like a bad Stephen King book, but with less style and even goofier more stereotypical characters.
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..that aired in the UK was brilliant. I am getting a bit fed up with stories about the 'scientific' explanation for vampires, it being reduced to the results of a virus has really been done to death - and the only times I've enjoyed that explanation have been in the novel I Am Legend and in Ultraviolet. I wasn't too impressed with the book for The Strain, so I'm not holding my breath for this - and even less so if anyone involved with Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a part of it. Fuck, I hated that show. I hated Angel as well - in fact the only thing I like from Whedon's camp was Firefly. That was good. Everything else, overhyped tripe.
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She's so fucking annoying in everything she's in. And she always wears the same damn glasses too.
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wow, how creative. another tv show about vampires.
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and by moronic followers I mean the tweeny/moonlight/diares folowers, not the true blood ones which is half decent but yes, alan ball is stealing from angel. Very similar storyboard...And spike would kick Bill and Lenora's ass at the same time.
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Marti Noxon is your girl. The thing about producing a show for nickelodeon made me kinda laugh tho.
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H_woodExecMakingStupidDecisions: Buffy and Angel were not the first vamp shows to utilize flashbacks or the bond between a vampire and it's maker.
ziah_vaempiir: Spike and Angel are the least menacing vamps ever. I find it weird that the Buffy fans are trying to lift the mantle of badass when their vampires are every bit as wimpy and emo as Twilights. A vampire knockoff of David Bowie and a vampire with a soul that will turn evil if he ever loves again? LMAO, From where I stand Twilight vamps and Buffy vamps are one and the same. Both are wimpy, emo and were created for young girls. -
Coming soon on FOX: Rose McGowan, Christina Ricci, and Lucy Liu as three young lawyers making their way in the Boston legal system, but they're hiding something: THEY'RE VAMPIRES! David E. Kelley brings his quirky humor and legal fetish to the underground world of vampire lawyers in, "Bloodsuckers," this fall on FOX.
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You've watched as "ER" showed you the chaos involved in running a cash-strapped urban emergency room. Now tune in for a very special series about the trials and tribulations surrounding an emergency room that's entirely staffed with VAMPIRES! Did they just order that blood for a transfusion, or a snack? Don't miss Anthony Edwards, Sherry Stringfield, Julianna Margulies, Laura Innes, and John Stamos in "VER," this fall on NBC.
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and it's almost funny that she'll be helming Yet Another Vampire Show. It's amazing she's helming anything after she ruined the last two seasons of Buffy. With her incompetence. Did I mention she was incompetent?
Then again her specialty is ridiculous melodrama, so who knows, maybe it'll be a huge hit with all of the 12 year old girls who aren't yet obsessed with Twilight. -
were hurt equally by Noxon writing crazy melodrama AND SMG's indifference to actually acting... a combo which created hugely over-emotional moments played by a blank and expressionless actress.
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Her track record is awful, she singlehandedly (well, with Whedon's tacit approval) ruined one of the best series on television, and yet she still gets work. What gives? Deal with the devil, incriminating photos - WHAT? And for the record, this series sounds like her usual crap.
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Jul 31, 2009 4:51:22 AM CDT
"she singlehandedly (well, with Whedon's tacit approval) ruined"
by felwithe
Whedon has a well known blind spot for people he likes. Just look at Dollhouse: Tamoh Penikett has the acting chops of a chopping block, yet he gets one of the major roles on the show, because Joss is a huge fan of BSG.
His great big love for the people in his circle works when they're talented (Anthony Stewart Head, Allyson Hannigan, Nathan Fillion, Nicholas Brendon), but it creates some really embarrassing productions when they aren't. -
Ok, what other vampire TV show utilized flashbacks in order to qualify the protaginists's historical personality duplicity? I'm willing to listen. Additionally Spike's soul issues only came up in the last season. He spent multiple years on the show being a badass. And no I would not categorize Twi vamps and Buffy vamps anywhere near the same. Angel slowly drove dru insane before turning her and killing the family of a vampire hunter and turning one of his children so the hunter had to stake his own 5 year old daughter...that's pretty f'ing evil. True Blood gets to use a gallon buckets of blood and show lots of boobies which visually shocks but the storyline is tame. Not that I don't love it. But Bill is wimpier than angel. Now Eric...there is a vamp that could make me scared again.
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The book was weak, and the "hero" has three major moments of "dramatic convenience" stupidity, moments that only existed to create a reversal and allow them to keep padding the books. Don't waste your time.
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Check it out: http://tinyurl.com/lptopp
I thought it was interesting. -
Bring on the werewolves!
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Although the beginning of the season was uneven, boy...did it build to something truly great...something that broke new ground in adult subject matter and visuals on American television. This specific season, was based upon Marty Nixon's steamy college life--a depiction, as vectored through Buffy, that showed how sex can sometimes substitute for what is missing in one's life, and not always in a good way. It took a season to let this dynamic build-up, in order to deliver a more subtantial pay-off in the end...and it was all more than worth it. Bravo, Marty!!!
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Smile!!!
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Lugosi's Dracula was creepy and melodramatic but Chaney, Jr's wolf-man made me a horror geek. Vampires were no longer human, just monsters posing as humans. But the werewolf was trapped between the natural and supernatural worlds. Great stuff.
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Picked it up a few weeks ago. I was sucked in and read late into the night for a couple days... then got bored. I don't know if this will make a good tv show. I kind of doubt it. It's a little too much for tv.
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