Despite its lackluster box-office performance, "30 Days of Night" is getting a sequel. The vampire horror franchise created by Steve Niles will live on in the form of "30 Days of Night: Dark Days," which follows the journey of Stella Oleson as she seeks vengeance upon the vampires who ravaged her hometown and killed her husband.
Niles went into detail on the project during an interview with Shock Till You Drop, revealing that the vampires in "Dark Days" will be much closer to the villains he envisioned in the comics—namely, the vampires will speak.
"I have them doing what I originally wanted which is speaking all languages," Niles told the site of the sequel's vampire menace.
The Ben Ketai-helmed sequel has a distinct advantage over the Josh Hartnett-starring "30 Days of Night," namely that "Dark Days" can hop straight into a vampire-infested story.
"The first movie established the vampires' fear of exposure, that the fact that nobody believes in them is their greatest strength," Niles described. "So now, we just had to accelerate that. In the new movie, we had to start with what happened in New Orleans. We just moved that storyline from the original book to the beginning of this new one. There's some evidence of what happened in Barrow and Stella Oleson is out there trying to spread the word just like in the 'Dark Days' comics."
Even if many elements from the comics are making their way into the films, Niles confirmed that some details would have to be left out.
"I have a scene where there's a plane and with everybody dead on a tarmac from the vampire attack," the writer said. "And Guillermo Del Toro just did it in 'The Strain' [novel], which is going to wind up on the screen and I thought, 'Okay, skip that.' We're going to be accused of stealing it from them or vice versa."
"I'd say there's about as many changes as there were from the first graphic novel to the first movie, but not as drastic," he elaborated. "We'll get a lot more of the vampire lore. This is the arc that introduces us a friendly version of those creature things. That was one of the challenges, how do we make one of these guys even remotely sympathetic? It's going to be a lot of fun."
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