MorganVille Vampires novels continued for 15 volumes, until ending in 2013. Now they will get a new stab at life in the Indie world at Geek & Sundry!
If you’ve read Rachel Caine’s interesting and slow-burn developing series, The Morganville Vampires, you probably never thought it could be brought to anything other than network TV.
However, Indie innovators Geek & Sundry, after launching other original shows like Spellslingers, TableTop, and the Guild, decided to help bring the successfully Kickstarted campaign for a series to their YouTube channel through the mini-medium of web-length episodes at the end of this last October.
Here at MFM, where we’ve read Caine’s books, we found the series to be very ambitious and well-cast, but perhaps not the perfect fit for the web. Nonetheless, the concept has amazing potential for future low-budget filmmakers and content creators, who, in the past, have had no chance to option novels that were professionally published.
Check out this trendsetting series, make your own decisions, and weigh in with your own thoughts–and whether you think this might be the beginning of a new trend!
Jeremy T. Hanke
The director of two feature length films and half a dozen short films, Jeremy Hanke founded MicroFilmmaker Magazine to help all no-budget filmmakers make better films. The second edition of his well-received book on low-budget special effects techniques, GreenScreen Made Easy, (which he co-wrote with Michele Yamazaki) is being released by MWP in fall 2016. He's curently working on the sci-fi collaborative community, World of Depleted, and directed the debut action short in this series, Depleted: Day 419 .