Friday, June 24, 2011

Warner Bros. Acquires Vampire 'Blood Wars'

Warner Bros. has just acquired "Blood Wars," a radical reinvention of vampire mytholog.

In the Warner Bros. version of the story, vampires have control of the world and humans are their slaves. But humans infiltrate the vampire army and plan a rebellion. The project is based on a story by Chad St. John and Blacklight Transmedia. Dalan Musson is writing the script. Jon Berg is overseeing for Warner Bros. Sarah Bowen is Imagine's executive overseeing it.

The undead remains big. Twentieth Century Fox has "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," which Tim Burton and Jim Lemley are producing, and Warners has a number of vampire projects in various stages of development.
They include "The Hunger," a remake of Tony Scott's 1983 film, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," based on the television show, "Midnight Mass," based on the DC Comic, "Nocturnal," with Legendary Pictures and "Bite Me," with Thunder Road and Mad Chance.

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