ALAN BALL Talks About Season 2 of TRUE BLOOD Interview

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ALAN BALL, creator of the HBO series, TRUE BLOOD, based on Charlaine Harris series of books, took some time to answer some of the burning questions we have about Season 2 (which premieres this Sunday Jun 14 at 9pm).

The question that most of us have on our mind is probably, how can True Blood be even sexier and gorier than it was last season?

Well, Alan Ball tells us it will be.

It will be sexier, gorier, funnier and deeper. This season the show is finding its identity and things get more organic.

Even though there is going to be another mystery this season, Alan Ball explained that the show is about more than just that, it's also about love story. And as opposed to last season when the audience was as clueless as Sookie and the town of Bon Temps about who the killer was, this season, we as the audience will be aware of a character that is up to no good before the characters on the show are.

Writing process for 'True Blood'

Alan Ball explained that 50% of it comes from the books and the other 50% conceived by him and his team of 4 writers including Brian Bruckner, Raelle Tucker, Alexander Woo, and Nancy Oliver. The books are narrated by Sookie and as so, other characters only exist when she interacts with them, which creates the need for writing about other characters when Sookie is not around. However, they stick pretty close to Sookie's story, only changing things here and there to make them more cinematically appealing.

In order to plan out the season, they take the book and find their favorite scenes. They then break it down over 12 episodes for the season. However, the writing of the show evolves and it always ends up becoming what it wants to and they end up rewriting things. They try to make the whole process very organic.

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