What’s with this vampire craze? Twilight, True Blood and a countless other number of vampire projects are currently hitting the small and big screen in record numbers. Maybe Hollywood is trying to tell us something? Anyhow, toss the hat of uber director Ridley Scott into the ring of potential vampire projects.
For more details on what exactly he’s brewing, read on…
According to Variety, writer John Logan is adapting the film and also wrote Gladiator for Scott (as well as the awefullly bad Star Trek Nemesis) basing the script on an upcoming novel by Jordan Ainsley. Supposedly the plotline goes a little something like this –
In the novel, terminally ill patients become healthy after they are bitten by bats in South America, and the government conducts secret tests on human subjects to see if the virus can cure illness. The result is an apocalyptic unleashing of bloodthirsty vampire test subjects that include death row inmates.
Sounds interesting, but whether or not it will make it to theaters before the current vampire fever is over is yet to be seen. I suppose if Ridley Scott is involved it stands a fighting chance to get the most out of the seven figures that FOX2000 paid to get the rights.
