Guillermo del Toro: The Strain Trilogy

What started out to become a TV series for Fox has evolved into a book series: That’s the backstory for “The Strain”, a trilogy of co-written by screenwriter-director Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. Here is a teaser for the plot:

They have always been here. Vampires. In secret and in darkness. Waiting. Now their time has come.

In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country.

In two months — the world.

And here is what del Toro had to say about the books in this brief video clip:

The money quote from the clip:

“None of this romantic, languid young men sucking the necks of beautiful people…I tried also to make the vampires as menacing and as real and as absolutely disgusting and as alien as possible. I tried to make them into a plague of creatures where you did not recognize their humanity — but our own inhumanity in them.”

For more info, you can go to Del Torro Films, the official fansite for Guillermo del Toro.

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