Source: Bloody-Disgusting
Bloody-Disgusting broke the news a few days ago that a sequel to the 2007 vampire movie 30 Days of Night was in the works, set to be directed by first time film director Ben Ketai and released by Columbia Pictures and Ghost House Pictures. However, the film will be straight to DVD (Sigh). Today, an official announcement and plot synopsis of 30 Days of Night: Dark Days was released. Check it out below.
Here is the official plot synopsis for 30 Days of Night: Dark Days:
It’s been a year since the Alaskan town of Barrow’s population was decimated by vampires during its annual month long sunset. Riddled with grief over the death of her husband, bound by nightmares and void of all emotions beyond hate and sorrow, Stella (Sanchez) has spent the past months traveling the world, trying to convince others that vampires exist. Met with skepticism and laughter, Stella is ready to throw in the towel when a group of lost souls (Coiro, Baird and Perrineau) offers an incredible opportunity: the chance to exact revenge upon Lilith (Kirshner), the vampire queen responsible for the assault on her sleepy Alaskan town. With nothing remaining to live for, and nothing left to fear, Stella joins their mission and ventures into the uncharted underbelly of Los Angeles where she pushes herself to the most extreme limits to stop the evil from striking again.
The first film, 30 Days of Night, based on the popular graphic novel series of the same name, was one of the best vampire films to be released in quite a while, and I cannot understand why they are going the straight-to-DVD route with the sequel. Sequels to theatrical movies that go directly to DVD generally don’t go very well, and the plot synopsis does not sound promising either. If David Slade (the director of the first film) were directing Dark Days, I would have higher hopes. But, since he is not, chances are I’ll just be content watching the original 2007 film. But hey, you never know.
As far as I can tell, none of the original actors are returning for this sequel, not even Melissa George who played “Stella” in the original film. Replacing her is Kiele Sanchez (A Perfect Getaway, Lost). The rest of the cast of 30 Days of Night: Dark Days includes: Diora Baird (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Wedding Crashers), Rhys Coiro (Entourage, 24 and the upcoming Straw Dogs), Mia Kirshner (The L Word, The Black Dahlia), and Harold Perrineau (Oz, Lost, The Matrix Revolutions).
Check out the trailer from the original film below as a reminder of what the sequel probably won’t be like:
