@Blah-Blah-Blah: he's taking his bias of gary oldman as count dracula to the xtreeeme. Personally I enjoy ALL of Gary Oldmans work, but let's be reasonable here. he wasn't THAT scary as dracula. Now, Christopher Lee was scary. Max Shreick was scary...

ManjiKengo

@idrisz: yep. some say that lillith, the first wife of adam, was what we would consider a vampire because she lived off baby blood. But that's horse shit.

Anyway, moral is that many myths surround the act of drinking blood to substain a creature/entity/god and not all of them are emo gary oldmans or christopher lees.

ManjiKengo

Classy Vampires are ghey, sorry. Anne Rice blows. Lesate was a simpering fool and wimp. But that is just my two cents adjusted for inflation.

Blah-Blah-Blah

@idrisz: I never said it was Bram stoker that invented Vampires. Vampire mythology is thousands of years old.

The onley reason I named that is because I kinda like the idea of classy vampires rather then the common savages.

Acunia

@ Acunia

What ever. I guess you have not heard about the Sabbat then from Vampire:The Masquerade. Go read about them. They RULE for villains.

Blah-Blah-Blah

I almost did a spit take when I read his name. Im an artist also and my name is quite similar to the interviewer. Mine only being off by one letter - the letter "n".

I suppose anyone who cares can probably guess where that goes.

Japanese_Monk

@Acunia: not ALL vampires have to have style like Dracula. The whole style and class thing also takes away from the scariness. I don't know about you, but I like to be freaked the f*ck out. "style" only serves to make the vampire itself a bad-ass. (see: Hellsing) which makes it somewhat relatable and understandable, and thus much less scary.

warpped655

@Acunia:

Vampire wasn't invented by Bram Stoker, vampire exist in many cultures way before Stoker wrote Dracule, they are depicts as savage beast..

not the gentleman shown in Dracula.

idrisz

It won't be much of a game because if I recall correctly theu spent over half the 30 days just chilling out in houses. If i want to spend a couple of hours doing nothing and being bored out of my mind I would watch teh movie again.

MBC

I personally liked the movie in the way of scary visuals.
the plot was very "dawn of the dead" like... not saying that is bad or good really, just noting it...

warpped655

@Blah-Blah-Blah: What are you talking about? Vampires are suppost to have style, Just look/read abouth them in Bram stoker's Dracula. The vampires in 30 Days were nothing but a bunch of savages with no class.

Acunia

I didn't like the movie at all. As far as I knew, the vampires weren't explained.

Does the GN do a better job at that?

Atsumi

The visuals are nice in the 30 Days of Night graphic novel

LittleBigPlaneteer

The comic wasn't even very good but the movie still managed to mess it up.

whiptcracker

I didn't see the movie, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was ruined by casting...

This comic is excellent though. I think he has a somewhat naive view of what doing a game of it with EA would be like, but then I'm sure my specific views on how most comics get produced would be just as uninformed or worse ;)

DaiMacculate

My flatmate asked me to alert people that this film served only one purpose in the world: To make other films look better.

Mattz

What? That movie RULED. The BEST vampires in a very very long time for sure. They made all other vampires in other movies look ghey.

And if they made a game right this would be an excellent Survival Horror game. I am interested for sure.

Blah-Blah-Blah

I don't know how the comic is, but the movie was bad in my opinion. The idiot vampires were annoying.

Acunia

Templesmith is god. No, not because of that hack Steve Niles' 30 Days of Bullshit, but because of his own Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse, and Warren Ellis' Fell. Fucking brilliant. I approve of anything he approves of.

Strange Bedfellows

@ManjiKengo
Christopher Lee was scary. Max Shreick was scary...

I agree with that man....

Blah-Blah-Blah

@PearceShea: I don't know how somebody can say that they're sick of realistic pictures. Ashley Wood is another one that I just can't stand, so I'm glad you drew that comparison. Coheed got one of these guys to do their graphic novel for the last album, and the fan reaction was way against it so they started all over again, and I'm really glad. I'd hate to see my favorite band have their most unique aspect ruined like that.

MoarFightos

@jp182: And as an aside, I think things like Vampires, Werewolves and Zombies are sometimes fine un-explained. In part because they are just sort of a horror "given" and in part because, being such a given, there really isn't a background story that hasn't been used - they often lessen the story.

And sometimes it's fun to just not get the background. Look at all the Hellboy comics. Part of the fun is that the vast majority of the shit that goes down is with little or no explanation. There are hints and suggestions and sometimes at the end of an entire GN a small piece of the puzzle may fall into place, but that's it.

In fact, this seems like a more realistic approach to a story. A known quantity quickly becomes boring (think of the last fifth of bioshock) and in real life we rarelt know even close to everything about anything.

PearceShea

@MoarFightos: To each their own but I love the IDW/Ben Templesmith/Ashley Wood style of illustration. I've read comics obsessivly since I was a kid and I am beyond sick of the rote, polished realistic style found in so many other comics. Templesmith and Wood's illustrations also help push the form in the direction of being accepted as art, simply because they are so clearly artistic. Same would be true of Mike Minghella (or little Mike Minghella, Gabriel Wa) or Frank Miller.

PearceShea

@The Wreckard: As I recall, even in the movie he's only a gentleman to a girl that looks like his ex-lover. He pretty much killed or tried to kill everyone else he met!

Yes, there CAN be different types of vampires. Some people prefer their vampires to be scary and some prefer them to be classy and stylish. It's just a preference thing.

I personally liked the fact that 30 Days of Night (book and comic) tried to do something alittle different with the whole genre. Now the Graphic Novel explained things about the vampires alittle more but the GN also had MANY books to do that.

jp182

@The Wreckard: That's very true. The Coppola version turned him into a gothic anti-hero but the book had him as a flat out Victorian horror.

I think it's easy to get the notion of the romantic vampire from Dracula - the book is, after all, about various Victorian anxiety's about sex and promiscuity (a similarly good, though completly different book -comedy, not horror- on the matter is TC Boyle's Road to Wellville)- but the Dracula therein sure wasn't classy or romantic; he did seem to possess a certain sense of refinement, but then again, who in that book didn't?

There are plenty of very old stories, however, wherein a noble or someone similarly refined drinks or bathes in blood; as with all vampire stories, this has more to do with social criticism than horror.

PearceShea

The art in 30 Days of Night is terrible. I've never seen the movie, but it's one of those hot topic style art schemes in which none of the pictures are very clear but you're supposed to be impressed at how dark and artsy it is.

MoarFightos

@Acunia: You obviously have not read Bram Stoker's Dracula, only seen the film.

The vampire as a romantic figure is a product of the 70's, and the vampire gentleman a product of early Hollywood. Before that, vampires were more like what you see in 30 Days of Night.

Dracula in Bram Stoker's book isn't very gentlemanly.

The Wreckard

The film was one of my favorite horror movies of 2007. I loved the art direction, the vampire attacks were savage and thrilling, and the 30-day siege felt sufficiently desperate and hopeless. The head vampire was especially creepy, with his fancy clothes and Yoda-like philosophizing (even with a blood-soaked mouth). Good stuff! Let's be Neflix friends if you agree!

topaz420

I really love the 30 days of night take of vampires. Gaping maws full of rows upon rows of teeth and razor sharp claws are so much better than a couple little fangs and a funny accent.

Also, please do not confuse the comics with the movie, which was passable at best.

Defenestrated

I loved the comic series. Still do. The art style is certainly different but i wouldn't compare it to anything out of Hot Topic.

If done well, they could almost do a very abstract cell shading style. Something like Okami, but instead of being inspired by feudal japan calligraphy, it could be based off the original artwork from the comic.

The comic was so much better than the movie. The vampires had a more involved storyline. They were three-dimensional. Not like how they were in the movie, which was basically, "Ooh! Vampires!"

Ps. another awsome comic that was a Billion times better than the movie was "History of Violence." That movie was a example of missing a great opportunity.

XWonka

If the game were made using Templesmith's art style I would totally buy it.

Wubbytoes

The movie sucked.

Allen750

@Strange Bedfellows: Hells yes.
We need a Wormwood or Fell adventure game instead of this.

PlanHex