I'm sitting in the living room the other night watching the Chiller Channel (dish network's equivalent of fear net for those of you with Comcast). Tales From the Crypt came on. Back in the day I loved this show. It was one of the episodes from the second season, and it got me thinking. Does anyone else remember an episode from season 6 titled Comes The Dawn (Originally aired on 1/11/95)? It featured Bruce Payne, Vivian Wu, Susan Tyrrell and Michael Ironside.
My point? It was about two men who went to Alaska to hunt bear....well...I believe it was to poach actually.....But I digress. The thing is the men ran into a group of vampires. The last man standing managed to make it back to his hotel and made a final stand believing that he could hold the vampires off until dawn. The catch was that the sun wasn't going to rise for another two months (as he discovered just before being killed at what should have been sunrise). Sound familiar? It did to me!!
It got me thinking. How much inspiration can you get from TV shows (preferably older ones)? As far as I can find the people behind 30 Days of Night had nothing to do with this Crypt Episode, so it makes me wonder if they were inspired by it in any way.
Has anyone else out there ever watched an old program (or remembered one) and thought it would make a good feature length work? Has anyone ever acted upon these thoughts?
Anyway....I've got to get to work on the shooting script for my upcoming short film After Night Falls (no it doesn't take place in Alaska HaHaHa), so you all have a good night.
Good Luck and Good Life,
Jerry W. Hawkins
President
Hawkins Productions
www.hawkprod.com
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