Moving from sci-fi to horror is not a big leap, and especially when there are going to be a lot of Joss Whedon connections once you move, but Adam Baldwin seems set to take his next movie role. Cinematical are reporting from Moviehole…
…will star in Thirst, a new vampire movie from director Jeremy Kasten. Alongside Baldwin will be other Whedon alumni Clare Kramer, Tom Lenk, and Serena Scott Thomas (from TV’s Buffy)…Producer Mark A. Altman says that it’s a unique look at a vampire film, and that’s what makes him excited about it. The story focuses around a girl with a terminal illness who contemplates vampirism as a means of avoiding death (well, sort of avoiding death. You know how that whole vampire deal works). He describes their approach to the film as a “ragged documentary style,” dark, edgy and very, very gory and “sick.”
It’s interesting because we’ve just been talking about Zombie movies and the feeling is that there’s not really much to be told in that genre now, how can you make a Zombie movie new and interesting? In the same way are Vampire films reaching that arch? What more could be told? What fresh take could be made on them? Perhaps making a movie from the Vampire point of view, although that was quite well done in the John Carpenter movie Vampires. What do you think?
