Mystery author Chuck Hogan and colossus caretaker Guillermo del Toro ’s lamia novel The Strain is getting its own series on FX ! Which intend we ’ll finally have a vampire show without dry - humping to songs by The Fray . Hooray !
Deadlinebroke the news that del Toro and Hogan are teaming up with Lost ’s Carlton Cuse . The pilot will be co - written by the author and directed by del Toro . Cuse will work on modernise the first season , which will pass over the entire first book of the serial publication . The scriptwriting begins at the remainder of this year , with hopes to shoot in September , right after Pacific Rim opens next July . excuse Deadline of this upcoming serial :
In the opening book of the serial , a Boeing 777 lands at JFK , with no communication or signs of life history . Eph Goodweather , who investigate biological scourge to the CDC , is called in and break all the passengers dead , and signboard that a foreign being had been aboard the watercraft . before long , he team with X - professor and Holocaust survivor Abraham Setrakian , who tack together a ragtag group that represent humankind ’s only promise when a swarm of lamia cursorily wrick civilisation into their buffet . Fittingly for FX ’s manlike focus , unlike the traditional , romanticized portrayal of lamia as tux - clad studs , The Strain is vary male person - oriented with bloodsuckers who have no seductive powers – they are sponge , husks of their former human figure with stingers that drain blood for nutrition , while spreading capillary worms that exchange victim into more vampires under the control of The Master .
Not mentioned in this synopsis ? That fact that while the vampires bung on you , they also denounce their pants . Bring on the mud - bottomed beasties !
Guillermo del ToroHorrorTelevisionThe StrainVampires
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