ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: The idea of doing a spinoff has been around for a while. Why was the time right to pull the trigger?
JULIE PLEC: It’s actually something that we’ve been talking about for two years, that we contemplated trying to get off its feet last year, but there was just too much work to do in too little time. So that gave us an opportunity this year to spend a lot more time putting it together — seeing if, obviously, our actors had any interest whatsoever continuing the life of these characters [Laughs] and if there was a story to tell. It all came together in a way that we finally felt would not detract from our most important baby right now, The Vampire Diaries, and would give us a chance to expand the universe with characters that we’ve had another year to get to know.
What can you tease about the April 25 episode?
The idea is that a turn of events in Mystic Falls sends Klaus to New Orleans to solve a mystery. He gets word that some people are making a move against him that might concern him. So he heads to New Orleans to try to figure who’s plotting against him and what they’re up to. And in unfolding that mystery, it takes him back to a town that several hundred years ago, he was actually one of the original settlers of and helped build. He reacquaints himself with a vampire that he actually turned back in the day, Marcel, who has created a whole set of rules and a whole society for the supernatural community that he’s in charge of — sort of tipping his hat to Klaus and saying, “You taught me everything I know.” So Klaus’ protegé is now the big king of the supernatural community in New Orleans and Klaus is stepping back into that.
Have you cast Marcel?
No, we start casting, I think, in the next week or two.
How would you describe him?
He is the life of the party. He is diabolical, and dangerous, and he is a rock star. If anything, he’s that kind of hard-partying, hard-living vampire who knows how to enjoy the most out of life in the French Quarter.
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My preference: keep Rebekah and take the rest of the Originals to the spinoff.
ReplyDeleteThis times a million! Rebekah is the only original I want on TVD.
ReplyDeleteDoes the whole vampire french quarter thing seem a little too Anne Rice for anybody else?
ReplyDeleteAlthough I hate Klaus as no other character before (at least right now I can't remember one) and I doubt that I would watch Originals, I absolutely support the decision to make a spinoff. Cause it's obviously the only way to ever get rid of Klaus on TVD.
ReplyDelete"And if there was a story to tell"? Is the woman crazy? She has 1000 years of original history to explore and show. That would be easier as prequel than a separate show, but it would also be harder. Or a challenge for a good producer.
"Who’s plotting against him"? Try the entire world. Acting like he does, killing if he's bored, destroying
peoples lives for fun, threatening and torturing as normal way of communication, daggering his family for disagreeing, … Guess he didn't make friends with that behavior.
I doubt that this former protégé of Klaus, Marcel, can be any worse than Klaus himself. If not for anything else, you can simply kill him, without eliminating an entire line of vamps.
I think that Becca and Klaus will be reunited next week, or the week after that. No matter what that psycho does to her, she always gets back to him. And then she is shocked if he betrays her and puts her in a coffin. Again.
Yeah, that's right JP, take the best writers to Originals and let TVD get ruined and canceled.
Not with Klaus in it. Too many corpses for Anne Rice.
ReplyDeleteI love Interview (movie and book) cause it's not this bullshit pop crap filling movies and shows in the last years. And because of Claudia (Kirsten). She was just brilliant! Queen of the damned, for example is too pop. But I like it because of Aalyah. And the music (love the concert).