DEADBOLT: WILL ‘TWILIGHT’ AND ‘NEW MOON’ SPAWN DESIGNER VAMPIRE KNOCK-OFFS?

The Deadbolt has another great article about the effects that Twilight and New Moon will have on future vampire stories and entertainment.

Will Twilight and New Moon spawn designer vampire knock-Offs? It’s not a question of “will,” it’s a matter of “when.” With Twilight mania raging worldwide and the upcoming sequel New Moon not even wrapped up filming yet in Vancouver, new life has been injected into vampire fiction as new novels are cropping up by the week to jump on the Twilight bandwagon. The time that we’re likely to see an explosion of Twilight wannabes is the gap between New Moon and the third Twilight Saga film, Eclipse, so don’t say I didn’t warn you.

This is in no way a negative inference on fiction literature at large since it exists to entertain and sweep you into worlds far away in the mind, but the drama of the vampire legend is nothing new or inventive. Keep in mind, even Blade made its way back as a short lived TV series over the past couple of years with shows like True Blood popping up as well. Vampires have always intrigued us bloodthirsty humans. From books to film to television and back to novels, throughout the years new vampire worlds have revamped the concept of the traditional stake-in-the-heart type vampire to incorporate more current themes, opinion, values, social trends, and personal author thoughts in a wide open information age that has had an impact on how stories are conceived. And with each new vampire world comes even more sub-vampire copycats.

What Twilight does well is that it gives fans a fresh and appealing battle of the species – werewolves and vampires (Ouellette and Cullen) – to serve as the richer entry point into the love we can’t have and the deeper, more explicit love we should wait for. It really means that we’re all vampires and werewolves just like Edward and Jacob Black when it comes to love and relationships. In the coming Twilight years, we’re likely to see a lot of tier-two vampires pitted against like a Godzilla movie. If it makes money vampires films could possibly go the way of the wave of Asian horror remakes, It’s always, “Too much of a good thing…”

[New Moon Twilight] However, as we’ve seen with the Stephenie Meyer based Twilight Saga and the upcoming Twilight sequel New Moon, the new generation of literary vampire fiction is appealing to many on a global scale. And without that ongoing, centuries old desire to create the perfect vampire, much of the genre wouldn’t exist. But how much of the genre will be affected by the Twilight Saga when it’s all said and done years from now?

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The last line in the article, “Remember, though, if you own a fake Louis Vuitton handbag, it’s not a Louis Vuitton handbag.”, is so true. I love that line! And really, no matter how hard anyone tries to create a similar world to Stephenie Meyer’s, it could never ever be the same. I don’t think anyone will ever be able to recreate the feeling I get when I read any of the Twilight Saga.

What did you think of this article? Do you think anyone else could do the Twilight world justice?