What is the core attraction of Twilight- vampires or a love story? Do the vampire copycat movies/shows have it wrong?
Quoting ABC News:
If a studio comes up with a surprise hit, get ready for an avalanche of similar films or TV series the following two years from rival studios.
Hollywood’s hot new trend is vampires.
By this time next year, the world will likely be tired of fangs.
We can blame every teenage girl’s favourite film, last year’s Twilight, for the mass-shipment of pasty, blood-thirsty vampires to cinemas and TV.
Twilight cost just $US37 million ($40.8 million) to make, but earned almost $US400 million ($441.5 million).
In November the sequel, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, hit multiplexes and 12 months later the third edition, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, is set for release.
On TV, we have vampires in the series True Blood. The Vampire Diaries also just launched on US TV.
Probably the best person to quiz about Hollywood’s love of flogging a successful idea to death is director-writer-producer JJ Abrams.
He has one of Hollywood’s freshest minds, creating the TV series Lost, Alias and Fringe, and the feature film Cloverfield.
Ironically, the 43-year-old New Yorker’s two grandest projects were re-makes of former successful, but flogged-to-death franchises, Star Trek and Mission: Impossible.
“You see this all the time,” Abrams said of Hollywood’s love of jumping on the bandwagon.
“When there is something that is successful, invariably there is something ripping it off right on its heels.
“Typically, I feel those rip-offs are usually unsuccessful partly because the thunder was already stolen from the first thing.
“The thing what really clicked wasn’t the thing they thought clicked.
“[With Twilight] it’s not the vampires, though there’s nothing wrong with a good vampire movie.”
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