Back in 2007, I wrote a screenplay for a film that is about vampires. This was before True Blood, Twilight or any semblance of the renaissance we are seeing at the moment for the humble bloodsucker.
I sent it off to BBC Films & the Film Council, and got past the initial reading rounds, enough to get notes back from them alongside their rejection to go any further with it.
The notes were good, and I was about to embark on a rewrite when 5:13 and The Joshua Tapes got greenlit and I had to start work on those.
This year, as I began to consider what I would like to set up for 2011, I took a look back at the material, saw that it had some legs and pitched it last month to a colleague of mine who is a pretty solid producer in her own right now.
Today she emails me back saying she’ll help being a sounding board for my redrafts and that we’ll take it from there.
Exciting stuff, but I’m terrified that by the time it actually gets made, this whole vampire mania will be over…
Either way, I’m rebooting the entire story from scratch, keeping all the themes that I know are unique to it, but working very hard to find the emotional truth to each and every character.
Let’s see where they take me I guess…
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Vampires will always be cool. They’ve been in and out of fashion for hundreds of years through books, film, games, TV.
I think, as along as there’s a story to tell, old folk lore, myths and legends will endure. I mean, if they can still tell a Robin Hood story after Kevin Costner and Bryan Adams, then that’s proof enough.
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