Try it yourselves, get the first story arc of Steve Niles’ and Ben Templesmith’s 30 Days of Night and if you don’t imagine it as a film at least every a couple of pages, well I’ll be proven wrong. Every panel, every setting I was thinking what a great vampire movie it could become, all dark and claustrophobic in a way that has nothing to do with space but atmosphere. The night comes, the sun will be away for a month, a horde of hungry vampires has come for them and yes, it will soon be on the big screen. Damn I’m expecting this!
Barrow is a small Alaskan town where once every year darkness falls and stays for a whole month. 30 days with no sunlight, the vampire heaven! A group of bloodthirsty undead finds out about this tourist resort and the rest is one of the greatest horror comics ever created, still continuing through various spin-offs and sequels. The movie is directed by David Slade (he used to make videoclips and he also directed Hard Candy) with Josh Hartnett (Lucky Number Slevin, The Black Dahlia, Sin City) and Melissa George (Dark City, Mullholand Drive, Alias) in the leading roles, great actors and a much promising young creator who have the unique opportunity of putting their signatures on a thrilling horror story.
Steve Niles originally wrote 30 Days of Night as a screenplay and now, especially after his direct connection to the film, we will at last see what his vision was like. I have to admit I’m a sucker for vampire films but this will be something absolutely special, Hartnett with his cool attitude being a detective against an army of monsters, blocked in a ruined city that needs to survive what looks like an eternity, hell, how could they make a boring movie out of it?
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