The Strain is the first book in a trilogy of novels from Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan that dives into a dark world inhabited by vampires. Once upon a time, it was said that the plan was to turn the idea into a television series, but when pitched to everyone’s favorite station, Fox, they asked that it be turned into a comedy more like Buffy the Vampire Slayer instead of being dark and horrifying. This not-so-successful TV pitch is what eventually lead to the decision to write the books, instead.

Now it appears that a TV series is again just as possible as ever before. It’s being reported that that Grady Twins Productions — a newly established company from talented female duo Marti Noxon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Dawn Parouse Olmstead (Prison Break) — has begun working with del Toro to develop a series that is planned to run at least three seasons. The plan is to put something together and begin shopping it around to potential buyers next year after the second book in the series is released.

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A while back it was reported that Guillermo del Toro was working on a new set of vampire novels with author Chuck Hogan. Now del Toro spoke a little more in depth on the approach to the series and the plot of the first book, which is apparently much further along than we thought. In fact, they’re already written.

This works perfectly, as we see all of these Guillermo del Toro stories what seems like every day of the week and we just are boggled at the time the man has. Well, he himself explained exactly how that is humanly possible.