Sucking the life out of "Near Dark"

from the La Times this morning

Sucking the life out of "Near Dark": Remember when cynical observers said "True Blood" was too similar to "Twilight"? It looks like the backers of another vampire project, a remake of Kathryn Bigelow's "Near Dark," are closing the coffin on their plans because they fear the same critique. Producer Brad Fuller explains to reporter Chris Hewitt: "'Near Dark' is probably not going to happen....I think that 'Twilight' was the same type of thing we were going for, although 'Near Dark' was a much darker, sexier, rated-R version of that. But I’m concerned that, conceptually, that 'Near Dark' and 'Twilight' are too similar in terms of a vampire movie. For now, that movie is on hold.' Now here’s something new –- usually, when a movie is a surprise hit, you can’t move in Hollywood without bumping into a similar project designed to cash in. It’s not often when the opposite occurs, and a hit movie causes another in development to stall. But that seems to be the case with the remake of Bigelow’s 1987 vampire western, in which a young farmer (Adrian Pasdar) falls in love with a girl (Jenny Wright), only to find that she’s part of a family of utterly demented vampires, played by half the cast of 'Aliens.' 'The concept of "one person’s a vampire, the other person isn’t and they’re in love," with the success of that film, we would not measure up,' continued Fuller. 'It’s not the right time to make that.' " [Empire]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/12/near-dark.html