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HBO Already Developing a “True Blood” Reboot Just Six Years After the Show’s Final Season

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Based on the novels by Charlaine Harris and created by Alan Ball, HBO’s vampire/werewolf/were-panther/you-name-it series “True Blood” aired between 2008 and 2014, officially coming to an end after seven seasons and 80 episodes. But since successful television shows are never really dead anymore, it seems HBO is already rebooting the series.

THR reports today that Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (“Riverdale,” “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”) is behind the reboot, with Alan Ball reportedly on board as executive producer.

The reboot is said to be in the very early stages of development.

The original series starred Anna Paquin as Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress whose life is forever changed when she meets and falls in love with Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), a vampire.

The series was set in a world wherein vampires and other monsters openly exist, with some of the vampires drinking the synthetic blood beverage known as “True Blood.”

Sookie’s relationship with Bill opens up a whole new world of monsters and madmen, dragging her family and friends into the supernatural insanity along with her.

The ensemble cast also included Ryan Kwanten as Jason Stackhouse, Sam Trammell as Sam Merlotte, Alexander Skarsgård as Eric Northman, Deborah Ann Woll as Jessica Hamby, and the late Nelsan Ellis as scene-stealing, fan-favorite character Lafayette Reynolds.

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Don’t Forget There’s an “Alien” TV Series Too! Here’s the Latest Update

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Pictured: 'Alien: Covenant'

There’s a lot going on in the world of Alien at the moment. The original classic is returning to theaters, for starters, and the Xenomorphs will be fighting Marvel’s superheroes in the upcoming mashup comic Aliens vs. Avengers. Of course, the main event for 2024 is Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, a brand new big screen movie set between Alien and Aliens!

With so much going on, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that Disney is also working on an “Alien” television series, in the works for FX from creator Noah Hawley (“Legion”).

The Alien franchise’s first ever television series is likely to arrive sometime in 2025, set to be the first story in the franchise that takes place on Earth, roughly 70 years in the future.

FX teases, “Expect a scary thrill ride set not too far in the future here on Earth.”

So what’s the latest on the “Alien” TV series? Deadline reports today that filming is underway in Thailand, and Sandra Yi Sencindiver (“Foundation”) is the latest actor to sign on.

According to Deadline’s report this morning, the series is set 30 years before the events of the original Alien – Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, meanwhile, takes place 20 years *after* the events of Ridley Scott’s Alien – dealing with “the emergence of the story’s infamous Weyland-Yutani Corporation and the race between corporations to create new android life.”

Deadline adds in today’s casting report, “We understand that Sencindiver appears in multiple eps and will play a senior member of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation.”

Sydney Chandler (Don’t Worry Darling), Babou Ceesay (“Guerrilla”), Jonathan Ajayi (“Wonder Woman 1984”), Erana James (“Uproar”), Lily Newmark (“Sex Education”), Diêm Camille (“Washington Black”), Adrian Edmondson (“War & Peace”), Timothy Olyphant (“Fargo”), David Rysdahl (“Fargo”), Essie Davis (The Babadook), Alex Lawther (The End of the F*cking World), Samuel Blenkin (“Black Mirror”), Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger), and Moe Bar-El (The Peripheral) star in the upcoming sci-fi/horror series.

Sydney Chandler is playing a character named Wendy in the series, said to be “a hybrid, a meta-human who has the brain and consciousness of a child but the body of an adult.”

Sandra Yi Sencindiver in “Foundation”

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