Enter my contest for two "Blood Ties: Season One" DVDs and two Tanya Huff novels!
Now this is perfect timing! The "Blood Ties" television show is based on Tanya Huff's Blood Books series, and Doug Knipe, SciFi Guy somehow scored an interview with her. "As for empowered female protagonists, I'm all for it. I've always said my base line needs for reading are a kick-ass heroine and witty repartee." I was thrilled to find out that her writing process also includes a lot of Spider Solitaire.
Interview with acclaimed director Guillermo Del Toro about his new novel, The Strain, co-written with Chuck Hogan. "The idea behind The Strain was to try and marry old Eastern European folklore with an urban procedural feel. Which is very much the way, back in the day, Dracula must have read to contemporary readers. It was a very now, in the moment, modern novel. And I wanted to recapture that a little bit." (Time) I'll be having a contest for this book next week!
HBO's "True Blood," based on Charlaine Harris's beloved Southern Vampire books, will venture even farther from the novels in season two and Alan Ball, who claims he never watched even an episode of "Buffy," disses "Twilight." "I can't really talk that much about 'Twilight' because I haven't read any of the books or seen the movie, but I personally don't really understand why you would have vampires in something that's basically about abstinence."
I'm not the only on who think's Alan Ball's "True Blood" series doesn't compare with Charlaine Harris's novels. Karen Knotts writes: "I didn't anticipate enjoying Charlaine Harris' books as much as I do. After hearing great reviews of HBO's 'True Blood,' I watched the first episode -- and hated it. It was too campy, a too Disneyfied version of Louisiana for me." (Knoxnews)
Read Kimberly Swan's review of Kiss & Hell by Dakota Cassidy. "Delaney Markham is a medium plagued by requests from the dead, day and night. Having little choice but to acknowledge the spirits when they show up makes having a relationship nearly impossible, and causes most to believe she’s crazy." (Darque Reviews)
Read a review of Some Girls Bite by Chloe Neill. "Some Girls Bite is the first novel of the Chicagoland Vampires, a new urban fantasy series based around the experiences of Merit, an unwilling recruit to the vampire population of America’s Windy City." (Love Vampires)Watch a video with Paul Wesley, who plays Stefan in the upcoming "The Vampire Diaries" series, discuss comparisons with "Twilight."
MTV caught up with Ian Somerhalder, who plays Damon in "The Vampire Diaries." Video clip, too. "Somerhalder isn't about to complain about getting to play a guy who uses his dark vampire ways to make girls fall in love with him, because he thinks that his character's motives aren't necessarily all bad."
Anthony Head, who played Giles in "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer," isn't looking forward to the new "Buffy" movie by Fran Kuzui, who directed the original "Buffy" movie. "It was [Joss Whedon's] script at the age of 19, but they changed a lot of it. They said, 'Look, we know best and we know how to make this movie', and it became quite schlocky and high camp."
GRATUITOUS VIDEO OF THE DAY
I'm in a "Buffy" mood. I'm not going to watch the show for a few years and hope that I'll forget it enough so when I watch it again, it'll be like new. Check in with me in 2012 to see how this works out. Video by DesieDilema.
This one is by ColdSideofthePillow.
6 comments:
its funny my sister is rewatching Buffy and every so often she'll turn to me and ask how they could possibly remake this when the show such a big deal. I just shrug and say some people are idiots.
I think some people are trying to cash in on Joss Whedon's success and talent. The problem is that the original movie wasn't very good. Anthony Head was right about that.
That's true. Its fun if you like camp and it certainly was the sort of movie I enjoyed as a kid, but it has no real depth to it and hasn't aged well (especially against Buffy the tv show).
Kuzui is making a mistake by cutting Whedon out and wishing to completely reboot a franchise like that. It would better serve their purposes to either work with Whedon or instead of making a Buffy movie, make it about a slayer in a different generation.
Lexie, it sounds as if Whedon was cut out in the original movie after he wrote the screenplay. Their mistake. And Whedon is smart smart smart, so he wouldn't deal with Kuzui anyway.
Actually I was surprised he dealth with Fox again after they screwed up "Firefly," but I bet they offered him crazy stupid money and made promises, which they promptly broke. Whedon's problem is that he's smarter and more talented than the people controlling the money and they don't understand that.
Love Spuffy. I'm telling you that if True Blood doesn't stay with the books it's going to lose it's audience... it already annoyed me with a few major changes :(
It is horribe that True Blood doesn't even compare to the books. I still plan on watching True Blood but I think it's such a shame what they are doing to the series... if it wasn't for the love of the books I wouldn't bother watching the show.
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