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Coen Bros. Regular Stephen Root To Play HBO Vampire In Alan Ball’s TRUE BLOOD!!

So... by blckmgk13	May 8th, 2008 01:36:42 AM
Is this cool news?
Worried. . . by loonigrrl	May 8th, 2008 01:36:56 AM
This is one of my favorite series, but they've totally miscast Sookie. Anna Paquin just is not Sookie Stackhouse. Oh . . . and the fact that she's a horrible actor doesn't help.
You had me at Coen Brothers...then I read the rest of it by leobloom	May 8th, 2008 02:13:07 AM
and you lost me. Forever and ever.
Fuck yes it's cool news!!! by Hercules	May 8th, 2008 02:19:11 AM
Stephen Root as a lonely vampire in an Alan Ball HBO series? Where's the not-cool element in this????
I trust Alan Ball...the source material is horrible... by FilmCritic3000	May 8th, 2008 02:24:30 AM
The Charlaine Harris novels this series is based on are terrible Anne Rice ripoffs, with people turning into weredogs and werejaguars. I hope Alan Ball can pull off a Herculean feat and make this a compelling watch and a television series that stands on its own.
by loonigrrl	May 8th, 2008 03:26:32 AM
An Anne Rice rip off? Have you even read these books??!?! In what way are they rip offs? Because they're about vampires? What a load of crap. Like AR owns the market on were-animals.
herc, why is another project with an emo vamp cool? by bacci40	May 8th, 2008 03:33:09 AM
just cuz root is in it? hurry up and start the sag strike already...i want to see that midget hayden walking the picket line
Stephen Rooty Toot Toot by tonagan	May 8th, 2008 04:09:47 AM
That's an interesting casting choice.
Now we know what he needs the red stapler for... by qilphil	May 8th, 2008 04:52:12 AM
punching holes ...
Louisiana Vampires? by Xiphos	May 8th, 2008 05:05:45 AM
I've never heard of these books and don't know anything about them, but the Lousiana connection makes me think of fruity Anne Rice Vamps and that's not good. However, seeing Jimmy James/Bill Dauterive as a lonely Vamp does hold some interest. What's the basic outline of the story from the books, anybody care to recap here? Thanks.
Bacci40 by Xiphos	May 8th, 2008 05:07:16 AM
Are you talking about the fidget from Heroes?
uhfuhrfur huhuh set the building on fire by johnnyjlawless	May 8th, 2008 05:13:04 AM

He's sort of nerdy looking for a vampire by Yeti	May 8th, 2008 06:34:12 AM
As for Anne Rice she's become a PFOJ (personal friend of Jesus) so no interest in the "supernatural" except for her faith.
THANK YOU, Herc! by Fawst	May 8th, 2008 07:32:18 AM
I've been dying for news about this for a looooong time. Wasn't the pilot finished a year or two back? I seriously thought this project was left for dead. Glad to hear it's moving forward. By the way, I find it very creepy that Michael Emerson's wife played his mother on the show. Eew.
Ball = bad news by m_prevette	May 8th, 2008 07:53:17 AM
American Beauty was a fluke...seems like he specializes in odd for odd's sake. Six Feet Under started out fine but quickly became too precious for it's own good, so pretentious it was unbearable - halfway thru season 3 it was obvious they'd hit the point of no return and I bailed. And vampires can't be lonely. They don't have souls...they're creatures...undead...I guess they'll sit there in BAD southern Y'ALL accents eating grits...sheesh!
Goddammit am I ever sick... by Kid Z	May 8th, 2008 08:30:19 AM
...of f***ing vampires! Give it a reat already!
6FU by Node32774	May 8th, 2008 08:42:14 AM
I'll admit the show did take a bit of a slide i nthe third season with toom uch time spent on Nate's psycho knocked up eventual wife but the last two seasons were a return to from. Great series overall. And the finale was an all too rare perfect conclusion to a television series.
Hell with Alan Ball and True Blood by Geophyrd	May 8th, 2008 08:59:53 AM
What about Preacher? I know Mark Steven Johnson is making a flick in Rome with Kristen Bell...when are they going to make the series?
were-animals, psychics, AND lonely vampires? by blckmgk13	May 8th, 2008 10:06:37 AM
definitely breaking new ground there, maybe they will make him a private investigator as well. Sorry but the addition of stephen root does not make this cool. Sounds like a mix between the skinwalkers, the covenant, and "blood and donuts". In fact the addition of Stephen Root comes across more "Buffy the Vampire Slayer - the movie" level of corniness then legitimate wow factor.
Nothing is Private/Towelhead was fucking amazing.... by DanielKurland	May 8th, 2008 10:17:14 AM
I saw it in SEPTEMBER, why has it not been released yet! Who cares if its touchy material.
AICN wtf? by cloud_86	May 8th, 2008 10:26:30 AM
i totally agree with you FilmCritic3000 wats with the source material?
Oh well by AngelCordy	May 8th, 2008 12:39:55 PM
Hope it's better than "Twilight", whose fanbase, quite frankly, scares the fuck out of me.
Stephen Root by Quin the Eskimo	May 8th, 2008 01:21:33 PM
does not get enough love 'round these parts.
Stephen Root and Coen by hst666	May 8th, 2008 03:54:35 PM
Can someone identify the roles he has played. I have seen every movie of theirs through Man Who Wasn't There and I don't remember him in too many roles. Were they mainly bit parts? I could just be brainfarting here
Who's Stephen Root? by -guyinthebackrow	May 8th, 2008 04:43:59 PM
?
Stephen Root is by hst666	May 8th, 2008 06:23:49 PM
The Billionaire station owner in Newsradio, The meek guy in Office Space who ends up sipping drinks in the tropics, the voice of the bald, fat, unlucky neighbor in King of the Hill, and the guy who approaches Vince Vaughan with the Dodgeball contest idea in Dodgeball
Checked IMDB by hst666	May 8th, 2008 06:26:52 PM
Apparently the first Coen Brothers film he was in was O Brother, Where Art Thou, which is why I do not associate him with them like I do Polito or Goodman.
Fruity Anne Rice vampires = bitten by fruit bats? by Cletus Van Damme	May 9th, 2008 11:36:12 AM
That's my theory

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