Why True Blood Is Being Rebooted Before Twilight

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While viewers might be surprised to see that the comparatively modest HBO hit True Blood is set to be rebooted before the Twilight saga returns to screens, there are a plethora of reasons that the more adult-oriented vampire series made a comeback first. Twilight was a massive pop culture phenomenon around the time of its release, prompting a flurry of inevitable imitators. However, before Twilight’s hugely financially successful movie adaptations were even released, one of the franchise’s biggest competitors was already winning over critics and viewers alike.

Unlike the CW's The Vampire Diaries, which began airing in 2009 on the back of Twilight’s outsized success, the campy HBO fantasy series True Blood arrived on screens two months before 2008’s original Twilight movie adaptation was released. Like Twilight, True Blood told the story of an unassuming small-town girl who fell for an ageless, moody, but ultimately good-natured vampire. However, that was not the extent of the similarities between the two franchises.

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Both True Blood and theTwilight saga depicted vampires as more sexy than scary, with their respective plots paying a lot of attention to internal power struggles in secret vampiric societies. Owing more to Anne Rice’s Interview With A Vampire than Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot (despite their small-town settings), the Twilight saga and True Blood also both began to introduce more fantastical creatures like werewolves as their stories progressed. However, True Blood was a small-screen success whose early seasons earned Emmys and impressive cable ratings, whereas the Twilight saga was a bona fide blockbuster phenomenon that never won over critics but made