Twilight Opens a New Moon Door for Daybreakers by Nadya Vlassoff
The
Time is right for Daybreakers given the growing
popularity of Twilight, but are vampire lovers
ready for vampire virus outbreak? The Twilight
Saga media frenzy has been steadily chugging along
toward the New Moon release date for November
but another vampire film is jumping into the Twilight
limelight, as Daybreakers hopes to take a bite
out of the box-office jugular.
Written and directed by German brothers Michael and Peter Spierig, Daybreakers is a vampire tale with a different twist, with layers similar to Danny Boy's scarefest 28 Days where zombies take over the world after a virus outbreak and few humans remain to repopulate the earth. Daybreakers stars Ethan Hawke, Sam Neil, William Dafoe, and Isabel Lucas who is the new paparazzi darling after her breakout role in Transformers 2: Revenge of the fallen. Lucas is also well known in her native Australia for her role as Tasha on the soap Home and Away.
It's a battle of wills in Daybreakers as the vampires try to farm the remaining humans to maintain their food supply while, Edward , played by Ethan Hawke, a scientist looking to find a cure to help save the human race, Elvis (Dafoe), and Alison (Lucas) try to find a way to save the humanity from extinction. To large degree, Daybreakers is a cinematic race for survival with humans and vampires dying to win.
Can the soon to be Twilight saturated movie world handle yet another vampire-themed film? Apparently the sub-genre hasn't been sucked dry (pun intended) completely since movie-making creatives are continuing to churn out anything that resembles human entity with fangs. New Moon will be released in theatres on November 20, 2009 but Daybreakers won't take a bite out of the big screen until January of 2010.
When looking at release dates and box-office success, timing is everything in the film world. Interestingly, Daybreakers was filmed in 2007, a full year before Twilight even hit theatres. The Twilight Saga is paying off in more ways than one.
I, for one, am looking forward to this film as it might bring something rather unique to the table for horror and vampire lore.
Twilight doesn't offer anything new rather than it being a self-indulgent mess. Apparently, New Moon is the same (Bella going all emo because her Eddiekins left her and nearly commits suicide because of it. Pffft. Not a good way to send a message to young girls, isn't it?).
nilab
July 03, 2009 - 14:39
Subject: newmoon/ daybreakers
well not really these days we are all for good vampires to fall in love with.. as if any other movie stands a chance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i dont really care waiting for new moon impatiently... dont want to see any ugly looking vampires with faces shaped as horses seriously after edward no one want to see ugly............
The
Time is right for Daybreakers given the growing
popularity of Twilight, but are vampire lovers
ready for vampire virus outbreak? The Twilight
Saga media frenzy has been steadily chugging along
toward the New Moon release date for November
but another vampire film is jumping into the Twilight
limelight, as Daybreakers hopes to take a bite
out of the box-office jugular.
