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SD Comic-Con ’10: ‘True Blood’ Author Talks Books, Show & Sookie Turning
The San Diego Comic-Con Spotlight panel just came to an end with author Charlaine Harris, who is known in the horror world as the author of the the Sookie Stackhouse novels that are the inspiration for HBO’s “True Blood”. After receiving the Comic-Con Inkpot Award for excellence in fantasy and sci-fi writing, she talked about the next story, “Death’s Excellent Vacation”, along with details on the Sookie Companion and her thoughts on the show.
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At the panel at the San Diego Comic-Con Harris revealed that she’s under contract to pen three more Sookie Stackhouse books, with the next coming in May. Featuring Sookie, Pam, and a stripper pole, on the first Tuesday in August the short story “Death’s Excellent Vacation” is being released. Arriving in February is the Sookie Companion containing: A FAQ by Charlaine, an interview with Alan Ball, recipes, secret emails between Bill and Eric, and an original novella with Sookie, Sam, and Quinn.
When asked if she ever considers adding any of the new characters from the TV show into the books. She screamed: “No!” Adding that there are “separate entertainment vehicles … two experiences for the price of one.”
She also dismissed rumors that Sookie’s telepathy is related to her fairy blood and added that Bubba will be in the next book.
But the big news is that Harris was firm on the idea that Sookie will never “turn”, although, as we know, the show could go a completely different direction.
The new trailer for epic survival thriller The Dog Stars warns to fear the survivors of the apocalypse.
Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein), Josh Brolin (Weapons), and Margaret Qualley (The Substance) try to maintain their humanity in the intense new trailer for Ridley Scott‘s survivor thriller, releasing in theaters on August 28, 2026.
The film is “set in a world where survival is instinct, but humanity is a choice. Scott tells the story of Hig, a young pilot who, together with a military survivalist, Bangley, has carved out an efficient but isolated homestead in a brutal post-apocalyptic world until a mysterious radio transmission spurs Hig to venture into the unknown in search of the hope and humanity he still believes exists.”
Guy Pearce, Benedict Wong, and Allison Janney also star.
The film is based on Peter Heller’s bestselling novel and written by Mark L. Smith (Overlord, The Revenant) and produced by Ridley Scott, Michael Pruss, Mark L. Smith, and Cliff Roberts.
Check out the new trailer and poster below, which emphasize the thrills in the upcoming survival thriller. But it’s one that’s also filled with hope.
“I think people will be surprised and engaged, actually. I would say, hmm… charmed as well,” Scott says of the film. “Although, there is some violence.”
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