![]() The series continued with The Fall in 2010 and concluded with The Night Eternal in 2011. ![]() Vampires have a long proboscis stinger they use for feeding, and their facial features, hair, fingernails and genitals atrophy.ĭel Toro’s explored vampires in film before, offering a reinvention of the idea in his debut “Cronos” and presenting a “Strain”-like vampire-as-virus concept to “Blade II. In 2009, Del Toro released his debut novel, The Strain, co-authored with Chuck Hogan, as the first part of The Strain Trilogy, an apocalyptic horror series featuring vampires. Abraham Setrakian, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust, joins forces with CDC specialist Eph Goodweather to battle a vampiric virus that has infected New York in this first installment in a thrilling trilogy about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity. (They’ve also spawned a series of Dark Horse comics.) They’re based around a particular type of vampire biology that’s very much unlike the romantic vision of “Twilight” - vampires are parasitic, and vampirism is spread via a capillary worm that introduces an incurable virus to the host. “The Strain” novels, which were published in 2009, 20, read like del Doro and Hogan wrote them with film or TV in mind. ![]() Del Toro has plans for “The Strain” to be an event series with a set end date. Variety reports that FX has never ordered a pilot from a pitch before, but obviously the talent involved here is considerable. ![]() ![]() READ MORE: Guillermo del Toro Lands Hitchcockian Drama Series ‘Nutshell Studies’ at HBO ![]()
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