Hey All! I wanted to share some awesome things! Rachel Caine's Morganville Vampires Series has become a TV series on YouTube adapted by Geek and Sundry! If you've read the books or even if you haven't this is a great time to start!
Here's some information about the show.
Morganville: The Series
Revitalizes Vampire Genre Just in Time for Halloween
Rachel
Caine’s Snarky Vampires Perfect for Geek & Sundry’s October Line-up
Geek & Sundry: Rachel Caine is adapting
her Morganville Vampires books –
fifteen (15) total – for a hilarious fright fest of a web series. Each episode
of the first season is expected to be 8-12 minutes long, bringing the entire
season to about an hour and is freely adapted by Rachel from the first novel – Glass Houses. The first season will
begin airing on Geek & Sundry
October 27th with a prime schedule planned out… the hope is that the
first season finale lands on Halloween day.
Thanks
to a passionate fanbase who fully supported the Kickstarter project (and whose
funds were then matched by Felicia Day’s Geek
& Sundry), Morganville Vampires:
Book Series became Morganville: The
Series and utilized one of the fastest, most innovative platforms for
upcoming shows. Through the expansive reach of Youtube, Rachel’s fans can enjoy
the show without the long wait that comes through traditional television and
also, reach a worldwide audience faster. All around it made the most sense for
a book series of this size and caliber.
Even
though web series are seen as non-traditional formats, the casting process and
scouting for film locations remains normal. Auditions were held in Dallas, LA,
Austin, New Orleans and some digital (to give fans of the books a chance at the
spotlight too). Rachel wrote all the character monologues for the auditions.
The entire show ended up being filmed on location in Dallas, Texas in four
separate venues, including a coffee shop, a turn-of-last-century Victorian
home, a hospital, and a university. Nearly every episode ends with Rachel’s
infamous cliffhanger endings!
Switching
from book to film writing was easier than Rachel expected. The very first thing
she did, ended up setting the stage for the adaptation process and made it
easier for her to focus on the story she wished to tell. Rachel says, “The
first thing I tried to do, since I wrote the book in 2006, was to write down
everything I remembered from it without re-reading it. That was fascinating,
because what I wrote down was really the core story, and that turned out to be
what needed to be told in the show. So while I did go back to the book, I did
it for the purposes of review, not inspiration.”
Fans
might be wondering how a 10-day- shoot in April 2014 could possibly yield a
story they recognize, Rachel is confident the series delivers and explains,
“For practical purposes, you can only have so many characters in a show with
this running time, so some characters from the novel, while really interesting,
ended up not being central to the plot (like Miranda). However, I did think it
was important to introduce Myrnin, who is a fan favorite character, into the
mix early, so he makes a short appearance this season.”
To
find out more, check out these sites for the scoop on Rachel Caine, The
Morganville Vampires Books and Morganville: The Series.
Watch
the trailer below:
Looks awesome right? Well the good news is you can watch the first four episodes now! Just click the links below and the finale for season 1 airs tomorrow so make sure to subscribe too Geek and Sunndry's YouTube Channel!
And newly added!!!! The season 1 finale!
Episode 5-- Burn--
Summary -- Morganville - a brave
teen (Claire Danvers) moves to the very isolated West Texas town to attend the
local university, only to (a) run afoul of the local mean (very mean) girls,
and (b) move to the safety of off-campus housing with three strangers.
But
the plot thickens when she discovers that her new housemates aren’t crazy:
Morganville really is run by vampires. They own it, and every one in it. And
now ... they own her.
Morganville: The Series – The show stars fan
favorites Robert Picardo as Oliver (Star Trek: Voyager) and Amber Benson (Buffy
The Vampire Slayer) as Amelie, as well as Lindsay Seidel (Claire), Jordan
Taylor Farris (Shane), Haileigh Todd (Eve), Ben Easter (Michael), Nikki Donley
(Hannah), Afomia Hailemeskel (Monica), Jessi Mechler (Gina), Taylor Murphy
(Jennifer), Gregory Connors (Brandon) and Chase Ryan Jeffery (Myrnin). It is directed
by Blake Calhoun, known for his
award-winning and groundbreaking digital series Pink and Continuum, the show was
filmed on location in Texas on a Blackmagic camera.
Rachel Caine – is a fictional character herself … a pen name
of writer Roxanne Conrad. Since 2003, Rachel has written in the adult Urban
Fantasy genre (the Weather Warden, Outcast Season, Revivalist and Red Letter
Days series) as well as in Young Adult fiction (the Morganville Vampires series
and award-winning novel Prince of Shadows). She is the author of more than forty
novels and many short stories, and is regularly featured in anthology collections,
most recently the Charlaine Harris edited Dead But Not Forgotten.
And here's the awesome special content! I have a special video and pics from the set and a cast photo taken at NY Comic Con!
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| Photo credit: Tez Greenwood and was taken at MCM London Comic Con. Ben Easter (Michael), Shane (Jordan Farris), Claire (Lindsay Seidel), Rachel Caine, Oliver (Robert Picardo), and Amelie (Amber Benson) all pose for fans. |
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| All behind the scenes photos taken by Photographer: Julio César Cedillo |
Hope you enjoyed!
Hugs,
Jaime
