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http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=19029
Source: Variety
February 21, 2007


Phoenix Pictures and Mike De Luca Productions will team for a feature adaptation of the Charlie Huston vampire novel Already Dead, says Variety. Scott Rosenberg will write the script.

Huston's novel is the first of a five-book series that the producers are eyeing as a potential franchise.

The series revolves around a vampire who happens to be a private detective hired by a New York socialite to track down her runaway daughter. The city's vampires are afflicted with a virus that requires them to drink blood, and they run through the city in clans. A new virus that turns victims into carnivorous zombies threatens to upset the balance between humans and vampires.

Huston's second novel in the series, "No Dominion," was just published.

Rosenberg, best known for script work that includes Beautiful Girls and Con Air, just completed a new version of The Dirty Dozen for Warner Bros.

I'm getting an Angel vibe from this,has anyone read the book ?
 
Here's a review of the book that gives a bit more detail on what it's about and how it plays,sounds promising

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Already-Dea...f=pd_ka_1/026-8290107-2085232?ie=UTF8&s=books

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Hard-boiled horror, 10 Dec 2006
Reviewer:N. Megahey (Belfast, N Ireland) - See all my reviews
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Joe Pitts isn't your usual kind of Private Investigator, but the case he has been assigned is a familiar one. The daughter of a rich family has gone missing - a wild child, she's headed off to the city to slum it and there's no knowing what kind of trouble she's going to get into. Her mother, who is a bit of a lush, has hired Joe, as she's heard that he has the right kind of contacts in the underworld of Alphabet City. The father wants to keep up appearances and doesn't want the likes of Joe around, so he demands discretion, and wants him to report to him rather than the mother. It turns out that their daughter is in a lot more trouble than you can imagine, and so is Joe, who gets slipped a mickey and takes a few knocks. Sound familiar? Well, the only 'Big Sleep' about this one is the terminal condition of Joe Pitt. He's already dead - a Vamprye.

Joe is part of the underworld in Alphabet City that the ordinary citizens know nothing about, pushing the Vamypre clans underground, forcing them into rival clans who look after and prey on their own turf, trying to keep it clean from a nasty Zombie infestation (or should that be Victims of Zombification?). Joe however has stumbled into something much worse - there's a carrier around who is more than just the regular mindless shambling brain eater - and the various factions, hoods, enclaves, clans and societies are more than a little upset with him for not clearing up the mess. With a young rich girl missing and dangerous rivals watching and hampering his every move, Joe finds himself in the middle of a very messy and dangerous situation.

There's all kinds of reasons why grafting horror and detective fiction together shouldn't work, but Charlie Huston is oblivious to them, mastering both genres with aplomb, merging the dark streets that a vampire haunts with the "mean streets a man must go who is not himself necessarily mean" of Chandler's Private Investigator. And a Vampyre has all the right characteristics of the reluctant, fatalistic loner with the necessarily brutality for the harsh, dark world he lives in - one that regular people know nothing about. The action flows along as it should and the writing is sharp with a hard-boiled edge we are unaccustomed to see in a horror novel. This really shouldn't work just as well as it should, but Huston adds something new here to horror mythology and does it exceptionally well. I'm looking forward to the next Joe Pitt case.
 
I love this series! Huston is a gritty writer and I think it will make a great movie/franchise with the right production. It more brutal and raw than say Angel or Buffy, but if you're a fan of the genre (or even just mystery/thriller) it's a must read.

For those of you who've read the novels, who do you guys think will or should be casted? who should direct?
 

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