One of the greatest vampire movies of all-time is Near Dark, the Kathryn Bigelow-directed 1987 masterpiece penned by Eric Red.
In it, a small-town farmer’s son reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after he is turned by a beautiful drifter. Bill Paxton, Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, and Lance Henriksen starred.
But what if they made a sequel?
Red, who created the original, had some ideas, which he put down on paper. This paper became a treatment, which is shared exclusively over at AITH. Here’s what Red had to say about it:
Ten years ago, I got to thinking about what would happen if the saga of NEAR DARK continued in a way that stayed true to the modern vampire western fundamentals of the piece. The vampire clan of Jesse, Severn, Diamondback and Homer had to have kin, after all. So I mapped out a sequel. Allowing for the passage of time since the original, the follow up picks up fifteen years later and follows Caleb and Mae’s now grown daughter, Sarah. You can read it here for the first time anywhere. The film will never get made, but so what? Happy Halloween horror fans, here’s the outline of how I saw NEAR DARK II!
