TRUE BLOOD: Anna Paquin Wishes HBO’s New Version The Best
HBO’s True Blood reboot with Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is happening. And today, original star Anna Paquin wished the new version well.
Paquin tells Collider: “We do live in an era of entertainment where the reboot and the sequel have become a currency. So, is it time? I don’t know. That’s not my department. It was some of the best years of my life, but I don’t think them continuing to tell those stories or continuing in that world has anything to do with the thing we created. That’s its own special little entity that was ours and came with a whole family of cast and crew who are still in touch. We had a Cinco de Mayo lockdown Zoom with our cast and crew, and there were 75 people. We all are a family who has stayed in touch, and not just the actors. These are our people.”
She says: “I wish them well. I don’t know if they need us for anything. But it’s a fun world. It’s a supernatural world with endless possibilities. Of course, there’s room to do more and to tell more stories within that universe. We don’t own it.“
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Aguirre-Sacasa will co-write the new True Blood pilot with Jami O’Brien (NOS4A2). Aguirre-Sacasa and O’Brien will also serve as exec producers with Alan Ball.
Ball (American Beauty, Six Feet Under) created True Blood based on Charlaine Harris’ best-selling novels, True Blood centered on a small-town Louisiana waitress Sookie Stackhouse. Already is viewed as an oddball by her friends and neighbors, since she can read minds, it doesn’t exactly help her reputation when she falls for a 173-year-old vampire who has come out of the coffin along with many of his undead comrades now that synthetic blood has made it possible for vampires to survive without preying on humans. Still, the conservative locals aren’t wild about mortal-vampire liaisons, especially Sookie’s boss, who carries a torch for her.
Season one of True Blood sports a 61% on Rotten Tomatoes. The Critics Consensus reads: It’s unabashedly soapy and it occasionally wavers in its social commentary, but it’s a gory, sexy genre romp with a strong supporting cast.
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