Earlier in the week CW announced its forthcoming line-up and included in it was a new show called Vampire Diaries. If you’re like me you were relieved because we all know we need more high school vampire drama. The show is based on L.J. Smith’s novel series of same name, and below there a clip, trailer, and some images.
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This is the synopsis from the CW season schedule:
Four months after the tragic car accident that killed their parents, 17-year-old Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev, “DeGrassi: The Next Generation”) and her 15-year-old brother, Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen, “Everwood”) are still trying to cope with their grief and move on with their lives. Elena has always been the star student; beautiful, popular and involved with school and friends, but now she finds herself struggling to hide her sadness from the world. As the school year begins, Elena and her friends are fascinated by a handsome and mysterious new student, Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley, “Army Wives”). Stefan and Elena are immediately drawn to one another, and Elena has no way of knowing that Stefan is a centuries-old vampire, struggling to live peacefully among humans, while his brother Damon (Ian Somerhalder, “Lost”) is the embodiment of vampire violence and brutality. Now these two vampire brothers – one good, one evil – are at war for Elena’s soul and for the souls of her friends, family and all the residents of the small town of Mystic Falls, Virginia. Based on the series of books by L. J. Smith (not the former TE of the Eagles apparently), THE VAMPIRE DIARIES is from Alloy Entertainment and Bonanza Productions Inc in association with Warner Bros. Television and CBS Television Studios with executive producers Kevin Williamson (”Dawson’s Creek,” “I Know What You Did Last Summer”), Julie Plec (”Kyle XY,” “Wasteland”), Leslie Morgenstein (”Gossip Girl,” “Privileged”) and Bob Levy (”Gossip Girl,” “Privileged”). Marcos Siega (”Dexter”) directed the pilot.
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I don’t know how I feel about this. I LOVE this series (possibly mainly because the girl is the ONLY Elena spelled correctly I have ever encountered in my reading). But the story wasn’t bad, either.
And now it’s going to be a teenage soap opera? What? I don’t know whether to be excited or horrified. If it’s good, I’m all over it. If it’s bad, I’m cursing the CW. Surely I can find a real swamp spell-caster around here somewhere….
PS – Damon, Obviously this means I’ll pick this show up when it airs.
Hehe nice
I’ve honestly never heard of the books prior to seeing the tv deal a week or so ago. I am one of those people that completely skips what I’m assuming is this book’s traditional section in stores.
Can we assume that it was Twilight’s popularity that brought the author back to work in this series? I know that a shot in the dark, but ti was the first thing that came to mind.
I read this series when I was in like 5th or 6th grade…14 years ago now? LJ Smith has written a lot of other books in the meantime (that I am currently working my way back through, now that I’m way too old for it, LOL). But I saw recently where she is revisiting the VD world with a new trilogy about the other brother, Damon (but still involving Elena and Stefan…Jay can we change your name?!). And my immediate thought was that she (or her publisher) was jumping on the Twilight craze for vampire YA fic and that was why it was suddenly necessary to tell more of that story. Now I wonder if it has to do with this TV deal. I’m not sure it has to do with Twilight, at least not completely, because True Blood is also popular right now, and Buffy and Angel were popular for years before Twilight (on the CW for a while, too). But while Twi-crack may not be the only reason, I’m sure it’s one of the big ones.