Kristen and I appreciate it very much and I have been passing that along to fans and letting them know that they can take a breath, they can relax and just put the stress on me, because Don and David are listening to us and including us and we’re highly involved.” They always ask tons of questions and we’ve met with them several times and I love it. is quick to point out, “I would like to say already that Don and David have been so respectful of the world, even here in the beginning stages, and so careful to listen to Kristin and me and ask. One of the resounding comments that we’ve seen since announcing this is, “I hope they do it justice I’m so excited to see what they’d do with it.” So we’re going to have a lot of eyes that are going to be judging every move we make. It’s going to be about striking that balance to make everyone feel that we’ve done justice to the books. ![]() Inside joke isn’t the best analogy, but you don’t want it to be so exclusive that people feel excluded from the creative, but you also do have a very large audience to keep happy and to honor. So it’s going to be something that we’re going to have to scour the world for in terms of who could play this character and honor the spirit of the books and who Zoey is.”ĭavid feels that the challenges they’re facing are similar to those anyone doing an adaptation faces: “It’s always in honoring the spirit of the existing world and those characters and making sure that you’re leaving yourself in a space where it’s not so much of an inside joke for anyone who hasn’t read the book. This is a long chunk of time that people have been engaged with this character for. I think we’re going to have to cast someone who is a relative unknown, so that they don’t come with any preconceived baggage from other roles or other franchises. So it’s a very personal experience and for us, everyone has their own image of who Zoey is in their mind right now, including P.C., right? But every reader has their own version of who that person is, and so I think it’s one of those things where we have to be super careful as we juggle casting. “Books are such a personal experience for everyone most people are reading them when they’re wrapped up late at night, cozied into bed, the last thing you’re reading before you close your eyes or you’re on a train home from work and it’s like your solace from the end of your day. “It’s as tricky as it sounds,” muses David. The paranormal aspect of it was just like icing on the cake or gravy - not that you would put gravy on cake. “And I was, like, ‘Yeah, I can do that too, but I really want to join the YA wave.’ It was just starting to get some momentum and, because of teaching for so long, I decided right then that I wanted to tell a story about the kids I saw every day. “She said she was thinking more about a nasty college co-ed with biting and sucking classes, and bondage classes,” P.C. Let me do it like that let me try high school.’ Young Adult.’ Back in 2005 she said, ‘What’s ‘Young Adult?’ and I said, ‘YA, Young Adult. I taught high school for 15 years, and when my agent came to me in 2005 and said, ‘I want you to write a story about a vampire finishing school,’ I was, like, ‘Ooh!’ As soon as she said school, I thought young adults, because I was teaching high school, and so I said, ‘Yeah, yeah. emphasizes is, “I didn’t look at House of Night as a vampire story. ![]() Cast and David Cormican, who is producing the series along with Don Carmody, please scroll down. So I just have always thought that it’s a very close identification between young adults and paranormal beings like vampires.”įor more with P.C. And, of course, hormones in teenagers are going crazy and they’re dealing with their own passions. Blood passion, blood lust and that type of thing. ![]() Because when you deal with vampires, you’re also dealing with a lot of passions that come to the forefront. I think that they identify very closely with beings that are ‘extra’ in different ways, including their emotions. They also all want to be special, they all want to be the brightest and most beautiful about something, whether it’s on the football field or in a drama class or just the fashion parade going on every day in school. They believe they’re immortal, right? Because you do believe you’re immortal when you’re a teenager. during an exclusive interview with Closer Weekly, “but I have always thought that young adults are kind of like vampires. “OK, just bear with me on this,” laughs P.C. ‘Dark Shadows: Reincarnation’ in Development at the CW - Plus An Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Original
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