With vampires seemingly 'back' (Twilight, True Blood), where's Ripper?

[Admiral_Young]

Re: With vampires seemingly 'back' (Twilight, True Blood), where's Rip

I still want to see Ripper as well...they could pull off a two hour TV movie on the BBC or something like that. The last news that I heard on it was from two years ago where Joss was asked about the status of it and he said it was in limbo but still had some hope for it (paraphrasing). I still also have an interest in seeing a Buffy Animated Series.

 

[Kemaiku]

Re: With vampires seemingly 'back' (Twilight, True Blood), where's Rip

I still want to see Ripper as well...they could pull off a two hour TV movie on the BBC or something like that. The last news that I heard on it was from two years ago where Joss was asked about the status of it and he said it was in limbo but still had some hope for it (paraphrasing). I still also have an interest in seeing a Buffy Animated Series.

Ripper, if it ever gets made, has a pilot centering around Zombies, and will feature Giles solving mystical cases each week with an assortment of more mundane demons, Vampires won't be playing a part in it.

As for exactly why that would be would spoil the upcoming Buffy Season 8/Angel Aftermath crossover to mention it here.

 

[Greg Cox]

Re: With vampires seemingly 'back' (Twilight, True Blood), where's Rip

@Gov: I have all of Hammer's Vampire movies on DVD and two editions of Carmilla's original print, I would love to see a big screen adaptation of Carmilla...that wasn't some trashy lesbian Vampire b-movie.

Have you seen the tv-version with Meg Tilly? It aired back in 1990, and was fairly classy. It switched the setting to the pre-Civil War South (plantations and hoop skirts and such), but was an interesting interpretation.

 

[Kemaiku]

Re: With vampires seemingly 'back' (Twilight, True Blood), where's Rip

I hadn't heard of that one but I'll check it out if I get the chance, thanks.

 

[Gov Kodos]

Re: With vampires seemingly 'back' (Twilight, True Blood), where's Rip

@Gov: I have all of Hammer's Vampire movies on DVD and two editions of Carmilla's original print, I would love to see a big screen adaptation of Carmilla...that wasn't some trashy lesbian Vampire b-movie.

Have you seen the tv-version with Meg Tilly? It aired back in 1990, and was fairly classy. It switched the setting to the pre-Civil War South (plantations and hoop skirts and such), but was an interesting interpretation.

I haven't seen the Meg Tilly film. I would love to find it, I'll have to look around. Is the TV version a mini-series or a stand alone film?

I have to agree with Chemahkuu, Carmilla is the kind of story more likely to be turned into a latenight softcore b-movie than taken seriously. It's unfortunate, as the story is unlike Dracula and has more feeling to the vampire antagonist that is more in tune with how vampires are often portrayed today.

 

[Greg Cox]

Re: With vampires seemingly 'back' (Twilight, True Blood), where's Rip

According to IMDB, it was an episode of an anthology series titled "Nightmare Classics."

I don't remember any other episodes.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Re: With vampires seemingly 'back' (Twilight, True Blood), where's Rip

Tony Head's site reported at the end of last year that Ripper had been green-lighted, or at least a script had been commissioned...

'RIPPER'​

We can now confirm that 'Ripper' may be given a green light for development. Although one step nearer the possibility of becoming a reality, it is still subject to there being a script. If made, it would be a one-off 90 minute TV movie.​

]If and when more information becomes available it will be announced here on Anthony's website.​

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[Ethros]

Re: With vampires seemingly 'back' (Twilight, True Blood), where's Rip

 

[I am not Spock]

Re: With vampires seemingly 'back' (Twilight, True Blood), where's Rip

Sigh. Guess I'll just have to read the Buffy season eight comics and Angel:After the Fall for my continuing Slayerverse fix.

Actually, that's an idea. If the TV movie never happens, couldn't Joss write Ripper as a comic series?