Sean Marshall Most of us are used to Hollywood rebooting beloved films for the new generation but it’s rare to come across television shows that get the same treatment. Well, it looks like HBO will be rebooting one of their fan-favorite shows & some fans might not be with this move. HBO announced today that they will be rebooting their 2008 vampire series True Blood.
The pilot episode will be headed by Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa & NOS4A2 creator Jami O’Brien will co-write the pilot, & O’Brien also will executive produce. Alan Ball, creator of the original series will executive produce the show.
The series revolves around Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress living in the fictional rural town of Bon Temps, Louisiana. It is set two years after the invention of a synthetic blood product branded “Tru Blood” that has allowed vampires to “come out of the coffin” and let their presence be known to mankind. It chronicles the vampires’ struggle for equal rights and assimilation while anti-vampire organizations begin to gain power. Sookie’s world is turned upside down when she falls in love with 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), and for the first time, she must navigate the trials and terrors of intimacy and relationships
