"30 Days of Night: Dark Days" will expand the world of the first "30 Days of Night" film into a potential ongoing movie franchise if the comic's creator and writer Steve Niles gets his wish, but it will also expand the backstory of some of Niles' characters, even as it axes a couple more. Scripts always change transitioning from comics to film, and according to Niles the upcoming direct-to-DVD vampire sequel based on his graphic novel of the same name will be no different.
"In terms of the comic there was that whole New Orleans subplot, and there were those two characters Judith and George that just didn't make it into the movie," Niles told Bloody Disgusting. "They play a prominent role in the comic. We had to write our way around that, but it didn't turn into that big of a problem."
In fact, "Dark Days" gave Niles and his co-writer for the screenplay (director Ben Ketai) a chance to expand on some backstories that were passed over in the comics, such as those of the vampire hunters.
"In [the graphic novel] 'Dark Days,' you just catch up with 'new' Stella and her group of vampire hunters, and I don't think I gave them a beat of back-story," Niles explained. "For the film you got to really flesh them out, make them interesting characters that the audience would care about."
Stella's posse joins her in Los Angeles for "Dark Days," where she bats around some revenge in the direction of the vampires who ravaged her Alaskan town and killed her husband. So get ready to learn all about their pre-"Dark Days" lives and how they got there when the DVD ships.
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