Final 12 months, it was reported that The Righteous Gem stones creator Danny McBride had lined up his subsequent sequence for HBO by the use of the Grady Hendrix horror novel The Southern Ebook Membership’s Information to Slaying Vampires. There’s been little information on its improvement since then, and sadly, the undertaking may not occur in any respect, based on McBride, who says that it is “kind of floating on the market proper now.”
Talking with The Hollywood Reporter about his life and profession, the topic of the HBO vampire sequence got here up, which is described as “Metal Magnolias meets Dracula.” McBride was set to adapt Hendrix’s best-selling novel along with his Righteous Gem stones associate, Edi Patterson, after the undertaking had beforehand been in improvement at Amazon and switched houses after a sequence of delays. Now it seems as if issues have stalled but once more, with McBride noting that HBO has seemingly soured on the concept:
“We’ve not gotten a lot momentum on it. Even at HBO, it is robust making a 30-minute present ensemble that mixes genres. Actually tough. I really like that property and would like to do one thing with it, however I do not know. We labored on it for a bit and we weren’t getting the response to it that we had been wanting. It is kind of floating on the market proper now.”
In Hendrix’s novel, the members of a girl’s e book membership who meet often to debate their love of true crime should discover a option to do battle with a mysterious newcomer to their small Southern city. It is a easy premise, but one which appears ripe for a small-screen adaptation that would discover its many themes of friendship, energy, and household. Sadly, McBride famous as soon as extra that HBO has just about misplaced curiosity within the undertaking at this level:
“It is all right here. To me, it is a no-brainer. I really feel like HBO ought to simply need to go greenlight that now. We must always have moved proper into capturing the pilot after we wrapped Gem stones. Perhaps it is simply not what they’re on the lookout for proper now.”
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Supply: The Hollywood Reporter