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The people are hungering for vampires right now, and not just the Twilight sort. Based on the smash success of Ryan Coogler's Sinners, Stephen Graham Jones's book The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, the Interview with the Vampire TV series, Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3, Lady Dimitrescu from Resident Evil: Village, and the anguish of nerds everywhere who are wondering how the hell the Blade movie starring Mahershala Ali hasn't come out yet, bloodsuckers ain't dead. And for Absolute Batman writer Scott Snyder, neither is his love of his American Vampire Vertigo series that he co-wrote with Stephen King for the first 5 issues, with art by Rafael Albuquerque. 

In an interview with Polygon, Snyder revealed that American Vampire is still precious to him.

"I’ve told my agent over and over I would drop everything to work on that," Snyder began. "I love the book so much that it’s a world I want to play in in multiple media. It’s my favorite. You’re not supposed to pick favorites because it’s like children, but American Vampire will always be my favorite."

For Snyder, there is an animated adaptation of his and Jock's horror comic, Wytches, already in the works at Prime Video. But given the way that American Vampire covers a vast swath of both time and space, it's a story that feels uniquely suited for exploring on either the big or small screen. American Vampire has a Western atmosphere to it, continuing the legacy of Kathryn Bigelow's 1987 movie Near Dark, the latter of which envisioned vampires in the American West as grimy, unglamorous, and highly, highly combustible in sunlight. Come on, HBO, give us the American Vampire TV series already!

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