Jami O’Brien (
Fear The Walking Dead) are writing and executive producing the reboot, alongside the OG creator and showrunner
Alan Ball, who will also work as an executive producer.
When approached by Variety, HBO reps declined to comment on the upcoming reboot, which means we know pretty much nothing about it so far.
But if the reboot is anything like the OG horny vampire classic, we should expect a bunch of hot vampires, a whole bunch of nearly-porn sex scenes and, if we’re lucky,
Alexander Skarsgard’s bare ass. I mean, it’s truly what we deserve.
True Blood features vampires and other mythical – yet horny – creatures who were able to live amongst humans thanks to a synthetic blood substitute that saved us from being devoured by Alexander Skarsgard.
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The Dresden Files,
Shadowhunters, the beginning of
True Blood more or less directly adapted the first installment in the saga, then over time gradually moved away from the source material and became its own thing.
The flipside of this is that
The Southern Vampire Mysteries (to give it its official title) novels weren’t actually that good, with author Charlaine Harris being far more interested in small town melodrama than supernatural worldbuilding, as well as remaining utterly blind to how obnoxious and irritating the central heroine Sookie was (even more so than she was in the TV show).
Ceaseless litanies of people complaining about the existence of remakes have been around for as long as remakes themselves, as in the eyes of many, there can never be any justification for retreading familiar ground. Perhaps if this new version of