Details About Vampire Diaries Pilot

Found a review of the pilot episode for The Vampire Diaries on CW this fall at the Hollywood Crush blog. It highlights the differences between the book series and the show. Enjoy!

There are, of course, a couple of fundamental differences from the books, not just the fact that Elena (Nina Dobrev) has dark eyes and hair (she’s a blue-eyed blond in the book) and she lives in Mystic Falls, not Fell’s Church. Instead of hailing from Renaissance Italy, Stefan (Paul Wesley, above left) appears to be from Civil War-era Mystic Falls (are we veering into “True Blood” territory now?). But the change makes sense: If they didn’t cast an Italian, it’d be annoying to hear an actor’s fake Italian accent throughout the show. In the book, Elena has a 4-year-old little sister, Margaret, who’s very peripheral to the story. For the show, she has a far more interesting teenage little brother, Jeremy, who has turned to drinking and drugs to deal with his grief.

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!