New Vampire Drama Heading to The CW
February 11, 2009 by Amber
Filed under Celebrity, Television
Looking to piggy back on the success of novel-turned-blockbuster-movie, Twilight, U.S. network The CW has just announced that it’s developing a pilot for a potential new series about a young high school student caught in a love triangle with two vampires.
If the plot sounds familiar, it’s because it is – but no, it’s not a cheap Twilight rip-off. In actual fact, the series is based on The Vampire Diaries, a quartet of young adult books written by Ljane Smith and first published in 1991.
The stories revolve around young Elena Gilbert, an American high school student who comes back from France and falls in love with two vampire brothers, one good, and one evil. Kinda makes Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight seem even less original that it already was.
The television series of the same name will be produced by the people behind cult series Gossip Girl, Alloy Entertainment, and run by Dawson’s Creek’s own Kevin Williamson, and with pedigrees like that running the show, there’s no doubt the pilot will be a killer hit.
With adaptations of Twilight and now The Vampire Diaries making it onto television and movie screens, I guess we can all expect the vampire craze sweeping through tweens across the globe to last well into the forseeable future.
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