Guillermo Del Toro Talks about his new Vampire Book Series THE STRAIN
As you may or may not know Guillermo Del Toro is developing a series of vampire books called 'The Strain' and this guy gets it! From the video below where he talks about the book you know this guy understands vampires and what they represent. Del Toro is going to bring back what vampires were meant to be. With all the weak sauce vampire movies and books being written this series is going to be a warm cup of blood for all of those people that are into vampire folk lore and stories. Del Toro says in this video that these vampires will be "Menacing and as Real, and as absolutely disgusting and alien as Possible. A plague of creatures where you did not recognize their humanity, but our own inhumanity in them." How great does that sound?! Check out the video and see what he has to say.
The novels are supposed to have a CSI type of feel to them, and be a very hard core look at the vampire. Below is a teaser promo from the first book 'The Strain: Book One of The Strain Trilogy' thanks to Harper Collins.
They have always been here. Vampires. In secret and in darkness. Waiting. Now their time has come.
In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country.
In two months-the world.
A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold.
In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing . . .
So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city-a city that includes his wife and son-before it is too late.
I will be picking up the book for sure and I doubt that a movie will follow at some point. The book comes out June 2nd.
Source: Harper Collins