Title: Vampires among us? HBO says "yes"
Bob Gutowski - July 22, 2008 04:38 PM (GMT)
So I've just become aware of HBO's upcoming "TrueBlood" series. I watched all seven On Demand teasers last night, and I did some research and found out that this is based on a series of books, and that Anna Paquin will play the female lead, a human.
Am we not excited, or am we not?
Tom Kessler - July 22, 2008 06:06 PM (GMT)
This is from Alan Ball, the man behind SIX FEET UNDER.
Yes, we are excited.
Very, very excited.
Steve Erickson - July 22, 2008 10:36 PM (GMT)
They've done a great viral marketing campaign, with several entertaining websites (lovebitten.net, bloodcopy.com) and YouTube videos. Alan Ball is a mixed bag for me, but I'm looking forward to this.
Richard Harland Smith - July 23, 2008 03:38 PM (GMT)
I remember getting my first glimpse of Alan Ball on the SIX FEET UNDER supplements and thinking, "This guy needs to seriously get over himself." I liked a lot of 6FU, disliked a lot of it, too, and the series (for me anyway) really lost its way after a while but the show really did do something novel and I appreciate it for that and its cadre of wonderful actors. The show took something mundane (however grim) and built a real life around it... it'll be interesting to see if they can do the opposite with TRUE BLOOD, to take something fantastic and traditionally a bit hysterical and give it a sense of truth. If it becomes a kind of QUEER LIKE FOLK with vampires instead of queers, then nah.
Bob Gutowski - July 23, 2008 03:42 PM (GMT)
I keep thinking of "Alien Nation," actually.
Chris Stangl - July 23, 2008 11:45 PM (GMT)
Dear Vampires,
I am bored of you.
Your friend,
Chris Stangl
Bob Gutowski - July 24, 2008 06:19 PM (GMT)
...and Alan Cumming, too.
Actaully, I'll watch the vampires, but can we send Cumming back to Scotland for a few years? It seems that MTV's going to remake THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, and I'm afraid, Dimmy, I'm afraid...
Lisa Larkin - July 28, 2008 09:20 PM (GMT)
This was by far the most ubiquitous viral marketing campaign at comic-con this year. I missed the panel but when we went to RockBottom on Friday before the PINEAPPLE EXPRESS screening, they had TRUBLOOD fake commercials running on all the monitors. One was a spoof of those match.com ads where they harp on being rejected by eHarmony. The TruBlood version was a dating service that matched humans and vampires.
Bob Gutowski - July 29, 2008 01:50 PM (GMT)