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True Blood is an American television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris. The program will be broadcast on the HBO premium cable in the United States. It is produced by HBO in association with the company production of balloons, his face Here Entertainment. It was created September 7, 2008.
12 The second show of the season premiere episode June 14, 2009. On July 30, 2009, confirmed that HBO True Blood will be renewed for a third season.Alan Ball said he plans to start shooting the third season before Christmas 2009.
True Blood details the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional small town in Louisiana. Centers Series on Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), telepathic waitress in a bar, he falls for vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer).
The first season acclaimed by critics and has won numerous awards including a Golden Globe and an Emmy.
Series creator Alan Ball had previously worked with premium cable channel HBO on Six Feet Under, which lasted five seasons. In October 2005, after the end of Six Feet Under, Ball has signed a two-year agreement with HBO to develop and produce original programming for the network. TRUE Sang became the first project under the agreement after the ball became familiar with books by Charlaine Harris Southern Vampire Mystery. [5] A day earlier for an appointment with the dentist, Mr. Ball was browsing through Barnes and Noble and found dead in the dark, the first installment of series of Harris. Enjoying, Read more entries and was interested in "bring [] the vision Harris' television. "However, Mr. Harris has two options for adapting to other books. She said she decided to work with him, however, because they "really" is "me. That's what convinced me to go with him. I felt understood what he was doing with books. "
Hour-long pilot project was commissioned simultaneously with the completion of the development agreement before mentioned and was written, directed and produced by Ball. Cast Members Paquin, Kwanten and Trammell were announced in February 2007 and later Moyer April. [7] [8] The pilot was filmed in summer 2007 and was officially ordered to series in August, when Ball had already written several episodes. Production of the series started later than the autumn, Brook Kerr, who played Tara Thornton in the original pilot being replaced by Rutina Wesley. Two episodes of the series was filmed before the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike shut down production 12 episodes of the first season until 2008. That September, after only the first two episodes had aired, HBO has commissioned a second season of twelve episodes, with production planned from January 2009 for a summer release.
Title sequence Opening
True Blood Emmy title sequence was created by Digital Kitchen, a production studio was also responsible for create the title sequence of Six Feet Under. The sequence, which consists mainly of portraits of Series System Deep South, played a "Bad Things" by Jace Everett.
Digital Kitchen wants to explore the themes of redemption and forgiveness in the opening title sequence.
Conceptually, Digital Kitchen chose to build the movie around the idea of "the whore of the house of prayer" by mixing contradictory images of sex, violence and religion and show a view of a "supernatural beings, predatory creatures observing the man behind the scenes … "Kitchen Digital also wanted to explore the ideas of redemption and forgiveness, and therefore ready for the movie to progress all day and end at a baptism.
Most images used in the sequence was filmed on location in Digital Kitchen. The crew members took a trip four days in Louisiana to film and also fired at a church in Chicago and a scene in a bar in Seattle. In addition, several crew members Digital Kitchen has made a brief appearance in the sequence.
In the opening number, Digital Kitchen wanted to express how "fanaticism religious "and" sexual energy "could corrupt humans and animals do. Therefore, several executives of some plans have been cut to give an impression of nervous movement, while other plans were simply reproduce very slowly. Managers have also been spattered drops of blood. The sequence of transitions has been constructed differently, however, were made using a transfer technique of Polaroid. The last image at once and the first image of another have been taken as a single Polaroid photo, which was divided between the emulsion and backing. The emulsion was filmed be separated by chemical and shots of this separation is placed back into the past edition.
Of the eight different fonts, inspired by road signs in the South, was also manually created by Camm Rowland for sharing and crew credits, and the card series title.
Gary Calamar, the music supervisor for the series, said his goal for the soundtrack of the series is to create something "swampy, blues and shocking" and featuring local musicians Louisiana. Nathan Barr composer wrote the score for the original series featuring cello, guitar, prepared piano and harmonica glass among other instruments, which itself does. [edit] The theme is "Bad Things" by country music artist Jace Everett, from the 2005 self-titled debut.
Elektra / Atlantic Records released a soundtrack of True Blood, May 19, 2009, the day of the release of the DVD and Blu-Ray's first season. Original score Nathan Barr for True Blood has been released on CD on the Varese Sarabande label September 8, 2009.
Both Nathan and Jace Everett Barr ₩ 2009 awards the Broadcast Music Incorporated, in the category of cable BMI, respectively, True Blood original score and song.
Marketing
The first True Blood has been preceded by a viral marketing / reality game (ARG alternative) campaign, based BloodCopy.com. This included the creation several websites, coding web addresses on the envelopes sent to Anonymous good image of blog writers and others, and even the action of the "one Vampires "who tried to join others of its kind to discuss the recent creation of" TruBlood "a glass of fiction that appears in the show. A MySpace account under the name "Blood" was, as of June 19, uploaded two videos, one entitled "Vampire Taste test – True Blood vs Human "and another called" BloodCopy Samson Exclusive Interview with the Vampire. "A comic prequel was given to participants Comic-Con 2008. The comic centers around an old vampire named Lamar, who tells the reader how TruBlood the surface and discussed with vampires before the public school courses. At one point, Lamar TruBlood wondered if the world safe for vampires or their part.
Several prominent notices issued on HBO and Facebook before the first of the series, the vampires in the placement of ads similar to beer and wine. Some beverage vending machines the United States was also equipped with maps indicating it was "sold" to TruBlood.
Islands DVD of the first episode were presented to delegates of "Midnight Madness" event special sessions of the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. Blockbuster Video provided free rent the first episode of True Blood several days before it was broadcast on HBO. The video had a watermark Promotion low throughout the episode.
On April 16, 2009, HBO released the first teaser poster for season 2. The image that uses a technical perspective, shows that observers of both images. A season of advertising and promotion two minute video that appears Bob Dylan, "Here Lies Beyond Nothin '" was released by Entertainment Tonight, in early May
On September 10, 2009, began selling HBO.com Tru Blood, the drink of fiction that appears in the show. In real life, is an orange soda blood, developed and manufactured by Omni Consumer Products, a company that specializes in the Brand defictionalizing television and movies.
There is also a community site del Sol, antagonists of the series of books, videos of hot topics such as becoming a vampire.
FX (UK), the United Kingdom and Ireland body broadcasting the series, has launched an extensive promotional site for the series.
On September 15, 2009, HBO presented a check mark on the Patent and Trademark Office for a possible future game based on electronics True Blood.
On September 18, 2009, HBO launched a jewelry line real blood in collaboration with New York designer Udi Behr. Inspired by the series, Gothic jewelry will look and will be sterling silver, steel and polished rubies.
Actors and Characters
True Blood uses a full cast of regular characters and group rotation basis impermanent secondary characters. Although the series is based on the fictional town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, a remarkable number of actors which includes the distribution are outside the United States. In an interview, Ball said he did not deliberately trying to "un-American" players, but he was ready to go anywhere I needed in order to "find the actor who plays the character of breathing." Ball went on to explain that in the smelter, had more than one approach that reproduce the character quite convincingly that physically resemble the characters in the book. Noting that there is a clear difference between the characters represented in True Blood and those described in The Southern Vampire Mysteries, Harris described as comprehensive in terms of how their work has been reinterpreted.
[edit] Cast
The series takes place in the city fictitious Bon Temps, Louisiana. The program recognizes that supernatural creatures such as vampires, telepaths, Shapeshifters and other creatures mythical exist.
In the first season of the vampires have recently been "out of the box, and many are trying to integrate or" mainstream " in society, a process facilitated by the sale of artificial blood called Tru Blood. "The main characters are the series Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), and a telepathic waitress in a local bar called Merlotte property of Shapeshifter Sat Merlotte (Sam Trammell). Sookie's best friend Tara Thornton (Rutina Wesley) began working in Merlotte in the pilot, and entered a brief relationship with Sam during the first season.
In the first episode, viewers are introduced to the culture of the vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), who is saved by Sookie when a local couple who try to escape in blood. After drinking the blood of the Bill, Sookie becomes physically attached to the bill, and shortly after the beginning of a relationship.
Sookie lives with her grandmother Adele (Lois Smith). His older brother Jason (Ryan Kwanten), is a supervisor of the crew of the road and a womanizer. Mystery major concern of the first season Jason Stackhouse and murder of several women who have relationships with, from Maudet Pickens (Danielle Sapia), waitress Merlotte's Green Dawn (Lynn Collins) and his girlfriend Amy (Lizzy Caplan).
Jason worked with Hoyt Fortenberry (Jim Parrack) and Leni Rene (Michael Raymond James). Lenier engaged in Merlotte's waitress Arlene Fowler (Carrie Preston), and it is later revealed to be of Good Cheer serial killer.
Detective Andy Bellefleur (Chris Bauer) investigate murders in Bon Temps, and promotes the role of Jason Stackhouse prime suspect when evidence to the contrary, at the end season, which fell off the wagon. Bellefleur is leader of the sheriff of the city, Dearborn Bud (William Sanderson). Andy Prima, Terry (Todd Lowe) is a retired veteran Army working at Merlotte's kitchen. Working with him is Tara's cousin Lafayette Reynolds (Nelsen Ellis), who also works as a drug trafficker, is in the blood of vampires, the knowledge within the series as "V".
Tara's mother and aunt Lafayette, Thornton is Lettie Mae (Adina Porter), an alcoholic who undergoes an exorcism "in the middle of the first season to exorcise his demons." It begins sober Tara at the end of the first season.
Humans are given in sex with vampires are known as Fang-bangers "and the first season the main destination for "Fang-bangers" is the local bar called Fangtasia Vampire ", which is owned and operated by Nordic Eric (Alexander Skarsg? RD), a vampire who is the sheriff of Louisiana, known as Area 5 by the vampires. Eric used to Sookie to find a burglar in his bar, but once the author (a vampire) is revealed and try to kill Sookie, issues the bill and kill the thief to save her. The bill is thus punished for killing another vampire being forced to create a new vampire. She is Jessica Hamby (Deborah Ann Woll), a girl of seventeen. Once again proof to be a handful Eric and the end of the first season which is captured by the bill.
Towards the end of the first season, Tara is involved in a DUI after have been homeless with her mother, and conforms to the "Social workers Maryann Forrester (Michelle Forbes) who agrees to take Tara in with Maryann While Tara is introduced into the Eggs Benedict Talley, who feels an attraction.
During the first season of the anti-vampire is represented by the "Fellowship Of The Sun ", a church based in Dallas, by the Rev. Steve Newlin (Michael McMillian) and his wife Sarah (Anna Camp). After the close of the murder of his girlfriend in the penultimate episode of season one, Jason Stackhouse is recruited by the Church.
During the second season, has increased the influence Maryann Forrester and the conflict between vampires and humans. Mostly the distribution of benefits arising from the first season and several characters are introduced. Maryann Forrester reveals that he is a supernatural being with the power to influence human beings, starting with Tara and eggs, but spread Soon all the people of Bon Temps.
Sookie is hired Eric to investigate a missing vampire in Dallas. Godric (Allan Hyde) is a vampire more than two thousand years who is kidnapped by the Brotherhood of the Sun, although it was later revealed, was delivered to a attempt to calm the relations between the two species.
In Bon Temps, Daphne Landry (Ashley Jones) joins as a waitress in Merlotte again, but found later that Sam is a Shapeshifter. In the community of the camp is Jason Sun with a rival named Luke McDonald (Wes Brown), which competes against Jason. In Fangtasia Eric Northman Commander of Pam (Kristin Bauer) gets a bigger role, and in the middle of the second season on Lafayette and said it will begin selling "V" for Eric.
Bill manufacturer Lorraine (Mariana Klaveno) the return of a mid-season arc, where it tries to bill to admit his love for her, which later revealed that she has never ceased to love after separation. Dallas has also presented at Godric's Lt. Elizabeth (Valerie Cruz) and her lover man Hugo (Christopher Gartin). Also in Dallas, the public face of the American Vampire League, Nan Flanagan (Jessica Tuck) finally meets Sookie and Bill, as previously shown in television programs.
In the penultimate episode of the second season the vampire queen of Louisiana Anne-Sophie (Evan Rachel Wood) is introduced. Bill and Eric visit in an attempt to find a way to defeat Maryann.
Land
After the creation of synthetic blood, vampires have gone from legendary monsters to fellow citizens overnight. Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) is a telepathic waitress at Merlotte and the small Louisiana town, Good Time, owned by Sam Merlotte (Sam Trammell), a Shapeshifter, although it remains the hidden secret. One night, Sookie meets Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), a 173 years, beautiful vampire who has returned to Bon Temps after the death of his last remaining parent. Since she can not hear his thoughts, it was easy to be in his company and throughout the first season, two become the relationship.
Season
Main article: True Blood (Season 1)
The mystery concerns top of the first season of murders of women connected with Sookie's brother Jason (Ryan Kwanten). Maudet Dawn Pickens and green are strangled shortly after were alone with Jason. Although Detective Bellefleur little doubt that Jason is the killer, the local police do not suspect him either. Jason and grandmother of Sookie is murdered shortly thereafter. At the end of the season it is revealed that promised Arlene Fowler Rene Lenier is actually a man named Marshall said he had created a false identity, Cajun and stress free. It has been killing women he considers "Fang-bangers."
The first season also focuses on relationship with Sookie draft Bill and the relationship with Sam's friend Tara Sookie. Bill explains the rules of being a vampire and Sookie after he kills a vampire to protect Sookie, is forced to turn a daughter, Jessica, as punishment. In the last episode of the season, this new vampire is found with Bill in their custody. After Maudet and murder of Dawn, Jason becomes addicted to vampire blood and has a brief relationship with another addict, Amy Burley, who ends when she is killed by Drew. After one season with the discovery of a body in the car of Detective Andy Bellefleur parking Merlotte. The first episode The second season reveals that the body is that of Miss Jeannette, the pharmacy clerk that he gave false exorcisms to Tara and her mother.
The second season
Main article: True Blood (Season 2)
The centers of the second season of the sheriff's disappearance 2000 years old vampire zone 9, Godric (Allan Hyde). Recruiting Eric Sookie and Bill in helping to find Godric. With Sookie and Bill, in Dallas, a supernatural being maenad cause destruction Maryann called Bon Temps.
Reception
Critical reception of True Blood has been generally positive, despite initial impressions were mixed. The critic of The New York Post wrote episodes of opening: "If the program new HBO vampire is any indication, there are deaths would still numerous – especially among vampire hunters and viewers who love them – because everyone would be dying of boredom. And if the new HBO series of death, obsessed by Alan Ball, creator of the legendary Six Feet Under, whose new program True Blood, which is not so you get cold blood in the back, and leave you cold. "
Considering that the United States today, concluded: "Sexy, witty and truly special, True Blood is a bloody Southern Gothic romantic parable set in a world where vampires are out of the house and the campaign for equality rights. Part mystery, fantasy, comedy party and all wildly imaginative exaggeration, [true] blood shows that if life is always full of life — or death – left in the "Star-Crossed lovers paradigm of 'cute'. Just know that your claim Thurs romantic.
To the end of the first season, scored True Blood 64, indicating generally favorable reviews on Metacritic, an aggregator of critical responses. The second season has been a more favorable rating of 74 in Metacritic.
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