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Steve Niles on 30 Days of Night
By Fred Topel | Image property of Columbia Pictures.
30 Days of Night
Niles' 30 Days of Night
"It's my first time seeing it all cut together like that," said Niles. "I saw a test screening but everything was placeholders. There was no music, the ending. There was a lot of stuff. I'm thrilled. I am so happy, I can't tell you. I've been saying this in every interview I'm doing but I'm literally having the anti-Hollywood experience with this whole thing. They've treated mine and Ben's baby so well. I just can't believe it."
12 years ago, Niles was inspired by a newspaper article. "Every year, and if you check the papers, just about the time it goes dark in Barrow, [Alaska], there's always a little human interest piece about it. I was actually living in Minnesota at the time going through one of their winters. They tell you not to go outside, your flesh will freeze on contact. I was dealing with that and I read the little interest piece. What actually fascinated me at first, I was like, 'Oh, yeah, the darkness would be cool' but it was alcohol was not illegal. You could bring it in but they couldn't sell it there because of the increase in the suicide rate. I thought, 'God, what kind of tough people live here? What kind of people live in this place?' I tore it out. This was 12 years ago. I tore out the whole piece, I wrote 'vampires' in the corner and that seemed like the obvious, and it took me another five or six years until I was living in LA."
The project really took off when Niles hooked up with illustrator Ben Templesmith on Hellspawn. "We would have just massive time in between so we just started, actually what happened was Ted Adams from IDW called and said, 'Do you have any stories? We can't pay any money but we'll publish your comic.' Okay, here's my rejected pitch list. That's like fourth on the list. He just called me and said, 'the vampire idea is kind of cool.'"
The film stands out for its ferocious vampires. Credit goes to makeup artists, actors and the director, but it all began with Templesmith. "When me and Ben started talking, the first thing we really agreed on, I wanted to write a story about scary vampires and he wanted to draw scary vampires. The more we looked into it, the more we realized there hadn't been for a long time. Even the good vampire movies that have come out in the last 30-40 years are not scary. So that was one thing we agreed on right away. Ben's style is just what it is. That's what attracted me to working with him. I knew he would do that stuff. What I love about him, we were just wasting our time on Hellspawn, we were 30 Days finally was that Ben's not afraid to go dark. As in a little murky, it's a little hard to see which I think is perfect for a horror comic."
30 Days of Night opens to theatres on October 19th.
For the trailer, stills and more movie info, go to the 30 Days of Night
Movie Page.
Fred Topel
Sources: Image property of Columbia Pictures.
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