Morganville:
The Series Revitalizes Vampire Genre Just in Time for Halloween
Rachel
Caine’s Snarky Vampires Perfect for Geek & Sundry’s October #Halloweek 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 The Morganville Vampires Books
and Morganville: The Series on Geek and Sundry!
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.
Where to Find Rachel!
About the Morganville 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 andContinuum, and the show was filmed on
location in Texas on a Blackmagic camera.
WATCH THE FIRST TWO EPISODES NOW AVAILABLE!
EPISODE 1: GLASS HOUSE
EPISODE 2: BITE ME
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