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Michael, that sounds like the I Am Legend approach.
A recent script that combined vampires with zombies really well was actually on last year's black list. It's called Bethlehem and is about a vampire that offers to protect humans during a zombie outbreak in exchange for blood. Pretty original concept and it has not been filmed yet.
There are ways to recreate things.
'Artist' is not a term you should use to refer to yourself. Let others, and your work, do it for you.
Vampires originally were monsters - not human. I think what's overdone is trying to make them human. Make them monsters and make them unstoppable.
There was a time when I agreed with this and to an extent, I still do. But I'm definitely no longer interested in vampires as monsters. I think movies like Vampires, 30 Days of Night, Daybreakers, etc. can be just as lame as any Twilight or Anne Rice fare. I agree that humanizing vampires has been overdone but I think that's because generally speaking, writers have only tried to create one type of "human" vampire, namely a moralistic one. I'm interested in characterization and making vampire monsters kind of takes that out of the equation.
I'm interested in characterization and making vampire monsters kind of takes that out of the equation.
Not at all. Nosferatu had plenty of character but he was most definitely a monster. Or taking it to a group mentality and the other end of the spectrum, the Raptors in Jurassic Park had character and at the same time they were monsters. One doesn't preclude the other.
Not at all. Nosferatu had plenty of character but he was most definitely a monster. Or taking it to a group mentality and the other end of the spectrum, the Raptors in Jurassic Park had character and at the same time they were monsters. One doesn't preclude the other.
Hmm. I can agree with Nosferatu, I suppose. You could apply the same logic to Werner Herzog's Nosferatu although I think he was humanized even more in that version so it starts to get a little more complicated.
I don't agree with the raptors in Jurassic Park. They're smart, scheming and have character in the way they behave, carry themselves and react to situations. All true. But this is obviously not the kind of characterization I was talking about.
Vampires are still in demand. Rules may change, but the song remains the same. It hasn't even been a year and H'Wood has a hundred Dracula pix in development, second only to Frankie.
And they keep churnin' out Underworld flicks too.
And even I got a vampire tale optioned, although the focus is more on the ghoul that watches over them.