HBO still wants to do bad, bad things with Sookie Stackhouse, and its banking on you being interested in watching.
Variety reports that HBOs greenlit a reboot of True Blood, its trashy supernatural soap opera based on Charlaine Harris Southern Vampire Mysteriesseries of novels. Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and NOS4A2 showrunner Jami OBrien will run and write the series along with Alan Ball (who previously worked on True Blood and Six Feet Under for the network), who will serve as an executive producer.
Because the original True Bloods final episode premiered only six years ago, a full-on retelling of that story would be an odd direction for HBO to go in, especially considering theres so much more to Harris books that the first adaptation never got around to exploring. We already know that HBO and the team attached to the new True Blood can do tawdy, sexy dramas involving monsters and mystery. Now we need to see if they can manage to breathe new life into a dearly departed series no one exactly asked for because we havent begun to miss it quite yet.
Oddly enough, Aguirre-Sacasa was recently working on another vampire project, the Bram Stokers Dracula-inspired The Brides for ABC. The network ultimately passed but it was meant to star Gina Torres, so heres hoping the creator makes the smart move and brings her along for the ride. OBriens series NOS4A2, which also involved vampires, came to an end after its second season earlier this year on AMC.
Currently, none of the cast of HBOs original series has been announced as being part of the project, and the network hasnt released any proper details about just what shape the reboots actually going to take. Well bring you more as we know it.
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HBO’s Bringing True Blood Back From the Dead
