After the winner of Bridesmaids , we ’re stoked for the next big distaff - centrical clowning . Could Clueless creator ’s Amy Heckerling ’s supernatural romcom Vamps be the supernatural solution to the Hangover ? We spoke with the manufacturer to get the crashing details on Vamps .
tick off out our audience , plus a collection of brand new still . monition : Some plunderer ahead !
Clueless is an all - time comedy classic , and it was n’t just because of Heckerling ’s eldritch ability to zap audience members into the lives of upper crust kids in the 90s . The pic did n’t just have a plentiful - female child lexicon , it had heart . So we ’re stoked for her next motion-picture show , Vamps — about two vampire woman ( Krysten Ritter and Alicia Silverstone ) living in present Clarence Day New York City .
In an email interview , manufacturer Lauren Versel excuse the heart of the story : “ What bump when being [ eternally ] young has gotten old . ”
Versel continues , “ [ Vamps ] is an upbeat comedy about what it ’s really like to be a female lamia be in the modern world , and divvy up with job , geological dating , mode , technology and the ever - changing man . The [ main eccentric ] prove and keep up with fashion , gadgets , music , new terpsichore crazes , [ but ] they long for some aspects of the past . ” And that ’s how Vamps will stand out from the rest of the recent crop of vampire flicks — by being modern , and force the main characters to do so as well . “ They courageously forge ahead and keep on exist as long as potential . ”
But the reuniting of Silverstone and Heckerling is n’t the only intellect we ’re restfully squeeing about this moving picture . Did we mention that Sigourney Weaver has been regorge in this picture as the head lamia baddie ?
Versel explained that Weaver is the lamia who sires Silverstone ’s character Goody ( i.e. , turn her into a vampire for you non - fangbangers ) . Weaver goes by the name of Cisserus , and is a fearsome villain . Ritter is the “ younger ” vamp , Stacy .
Dan Stevens ( cousin Matthew from Downton Abbey ! ! ! ) has been cast as a younger Van Helsing , and Wallace Shawn ( inconceivable ! ) is the older vampire - hating Dr. Van Helsing . Justin Kirk ( Weeds ) is undertake the role Vadim , who could be either a vampire or a lamia aspirer , pronounce from the images we included below . Malcolm McDowell is the very vampiric - sounding Vlad . And also in this pic are Richard Lewis , Marilu Henner and Kristen Johnston . This is a massive cast . But we do it everyone attached .
Finally we could n’t help but mark the fantabulous image of Theda Bara over on the Vampsfacebookpage . While Bara is n’t in the movie specifically , the manufacturer revealed that this image was what inspired Heckerling while working on this story . Fingers crossed they pull a little fashion intake from that iconic ma’am , as well .
There ’s still no release date fix , just yet — but Versel say the picture will be released sometime in 2012 . Until then , you ’ll have to make do with this gallery of stills from the film ( most of which look jolly fun ) and this VERY spoilery prolonged synopsis :
When two sexy distaff vampires living it up in modern - day New York City each return in love with a homo , they must make a choice that will jeopardise their immortality — and maybe much more . Written and guide by Amy Heckerling ( Clueless , Fast Times at Ridgemont High ) , VAMPS is a comedy - phantasy - love affair that puts a sweet and uproariously cheerful twist on the lamia musical style .
Stacy and Goody are a span of typical attractive New York 20 - somethings . They enjoy club , dating , instant messaging and Facebook . But there ’s one big difference : They ’re vampire . Not the old dreary and gloomy kind , but a new , upbeat and politically right breed that prefers to be squall ELFs ( Extended Life Forms ) and look twelve - measure “ Sanguines Anonymous ” get together to help them curb any temptation to feed on human blood . They cast out the “ cinque - Good Book ” but not the superhuman abilities that get with vampirism , using them not only to accomplish personal ends but also to do some goodness in the world .
When night come down , the roomie stir up up in their coffins in their Greenwich Village apartment and go out on the town , to night school , or to their burying ground - transformation job . But their mod lifestyle is tag by shadows from the past times . As they traverse the metropolis , it becomes a living account book for the older and wiser Goody , whose material age is closemouthed to 200 . The streets turn to cobblestones , skyscrapers metamorphose into old , smaller social organization , and long - dead generations of New Yorkers parade before her . treat has see it all , and over the years has developed a passion for activism , from protest the Civil War to marching with worker during the Industrial Age .
The pair ’s destiny is set on a new course when love steals into each of their lives . Stacy meets JOEY , a geeky schoolmate with whom she begins a passionate text - messaging romance . And the forever young delicacy re - encounters DANNY , a now - married sometime flame-60 years old , to be accurate - whom she first met decades earlier at a demonstration . Still an activist , Danny was her one lawful love .
But even in love , the women must overcome obstacles pose in move long ago . Stacy learns that Joey ’s last name is Van Helsing , and the name is no coincidence . Joey ’s parent , like their legendary namesake , are expert vampire Hunter engage the age - old battle against her kind . And despite their persist common attraction , Goody is storm to hide her genuine identity from Danny , who reserves his deepest heart for his trouble wife . Worse , the New York authorities have launched a programme to clamp down on the lamia residential area by level them out during daylight hour .
When Stacy becomes pregnant , the stage is set for a final tally with history . If Stacy wants to stay with Joey and see their unborn nestling survive , she and Goody must join forces with the Van Helsings to kill the bloodthirsty CISSERUS - the ancient “ stem ” vampire who turn them into creature of the night in the first place . Doing so could require the ultimate ritual killing for both woman , but Goody is determined that they live - or die - by her long - hold credo : “ Sometimes it seems so insufferable to make anything good materialize , but I opine you have to keep try . ”
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