um, LADY-S----> http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009/02/twilight-f.html

"what if someone had a big brother?"


http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/03/01/vampire-...ueens-grandson/

you mean a good looking vampire brother with blue eyes????

**WARNING** -- this is a **S-P-O-I-L-E-R**...link! http://vampirediariesonline.com/spoilers/v...ics-first-look/ ))))((( take note of older brother ..late arrival in pilot,, go to "spoilers & casting info" link (off same link-fultonCritic) for an understanding of the characters.

http://vampirediariesonline.com/ian-somerh...ampire-diaries/

I second this YES!!!!!

OMG you have no idea how insanely excited I am about this!! Ian as an evil vampire!!! SQUEE!!!! yes yes YES!!!!

hey, M--please start a VAMPIRE DIARIES thread.. thanks!!)) I must have missed the casting announcement ((( just notified those other girls on that other site))

Your wish is my command!

*still bouncing*

With this, my head will explode: my two fandoms colliding! Ian and vampires!

This is so incredibly exciting! Ian, back on my TV on a weekly basis and as a vampire to boot!! How could this get any better? (Well maybe if it was going to be a daily show LOL!) Man, I LOVE vampires. I recently read all 4 books in the Twilight series on my Christmas break, I just couldn't put them down. I think my love affair with vampires started waaaaaay back with Barnabas Collins on Dark Shadows (yes I am dating myself).

With this news, I think Mick St. John might now have to be downgraded to my 2nd favourite vampire behind Damon.

old-man, do you know what network is this going to be on? Sounds like it could be a CW show to me. [edit] Never mind, I just noticed that the web address clearly states that it is "The CW's Vampire Diaries" doh![/edit]



Hehe, couldn't they have used a more current photo? Not that I'm complaining, any picture of Ian is good.

Wow! I'm going to go around with a big grin on my face all day now!

Very Exciting news, having Ian in it and then having Kevin Williamson producing it, definately will be successful. Plus vampires are way in right now

FARAN, I second that about the picture--never liked this one!)) majaB, I meant for you to get credit for starting the VD(hummm, sounds kind of venerial ) thread--you found Ian's cast membership)) lets's remember this is just for the pilot, am as sure as one can be. that this baby will fly--too many influential people backing this one!)) a little reflection:: you newer fans will not remember the FEARLESS pilot and the conterversity with the lead female, was to be tall and blond-became short and brunett)) lol_we are having FEARLESS all-over again, to not aleniate(sp) all the fans of the books--couldn't the powers just sign on a blond? )))((( man, this board ii full of Texans(smiles).. [edit} pilot should start shooting in a few days--the kid has about five or so pages of script and he comes in toward the end of the pilot..

yo, FARAN -- in this one he looks a little more....vampirish http://scifiwire.com/2009/03/losts-ian-somerhalder-pla.php (still thinking about that some-what ugly pict)

I love vampires I couldnt watch Dark Shadows since my little brother was scared of vampires but I worked my way around that even if we didnt have remotes at that time hehehe

I will tapeing the VAMPIRE DIARIES! that is for sure!!

hate to say this but I have yet to read the "Twilight" books but than the book stop has only just reopen so I will have to order some in

Haha, it's okay, Robbie... I don't need any credit for starting anything.

I guess I'm still a newer fan (medium fan? LOL). I wasn't around during the Fearless times but I've read some of the kerfluffle that went on back then and I've seen the pilot. Hope VD won't share its fate....

I think it could go either way.... there's a huge hype about Twilight, True Blood was also really successful (afaik), so another show with a "similar" outline (from what we know) could be either profiting from that or be rejected as a rip-off.

I know a lot of people complained about True Blood being a Twilight rip-off although the Sookie Stackhouse novels (which True Blood is based on) are older than the Twilight books.

So we'll see how it goes!

hey, we made the news headlines(March-26) on DARKHORIZONS--I had been checking this site for something official - went from not one to almost 6.000 links(google) for Ian Somerhalder-Vampire Diaries in one day-day is not over yet)) not too sure about this title = http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/13647/ian...to-suck-on-you/ ))(( click on the Zap2it link in this thread )) this old boy is taking a vampire break

I like the title...

He made it to Perez.

http://perezhilton.com/2009-03-26-the-next-robert-pattinson

I looooooooooooooooooove vampires and since I'm a little girl, I watch all movies, series etc. with vampires. !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great news! I guess Ian must be happy´with this role (I hope, he is).
And I hope we don't have to wait so long to see the show....

Speaking of old pictures...

http://blogs.nypost.com/popwrap/archives/2...competiton.html

They really couldn't find an older one, could they?

Wow, they should have asked Robbie for baby pics!

And did you read the comments? "He looks way too teen-sy and young for that character" Why yes, 10 years ago, we ALL looked a little younger!!!

OMG! Seriously.

Wow, I cannot believe how this news has exploded all over the net! This is fantastic! There's no way, with all this buzz, that this one isn't going to be given the green light for a full season (or 2, or 3...)

IMO he never looked more like a vampire than he did at the Pulse premiere:

So true, Faran! They should have used that pic!

totally agree!!!

Pulse premiere! I was looking for that pic the other day but couldn't find it. Now I know I was looking in the wrong category. (Yeah I know, not a good sign if even _I_ can't find the pics in my own gallery!! )

ETA:

Vampire Ian



Look! Look! He's going for her neck! He's going to bite her!

I'm really excited for this show, and I was wondering if there was any potential for us to do a website for it. (I know there are others out there). This series brings two of MediaBlvd's absolute favorite people together with Ian and Paul Wesley. Just something simmering on the stove, but I''m really psyched for this one. Whatever happens, since Ian is in it, we will be promoting this show really hard.

Maja, would you like to sink your teeth into this one? You know, a sister site to yours, but for the show? We can give support while you really hit hard on this. What do you say? I think it would be GREAT for our boy if we started promoting this show heavily as of now!

*makes googly eyes at Maja*

This show is so everything we have wanted to embrace with MediaBlvd. Ian came to us back when we were covering Young Americans, and was our first celebrity contact. Long story short, MB will always support Ian and everything that he does, and we will be putting everything we can behind that very fine young actor. But this show has something else in that all the we would want to do for Ian, Paul Wesley is also along for the ride. Who, besides Ian is probably our 2nd favorite actor in all of actordom. We will commit totally, all of the resources that MediaBlvd has, which depending on who you talk too or either a lot, or none at all, to making this show succeed. I'm excited about this one, more than I have been about anyother show since Roswell. If you know my name in fandom, that is saying a lot.

Kenn, Selkie, Maja

I've been reading the books off and on for a few weeks and I'm really really really excited. I've been meaning to pop in here (All I saw was 'Vampire Diaries' on the sticky tab didn't think of the board) for the last few days *sheepish* Also I had no idea Ian was in this. None. *is very closed off lately* (Yahoo! informed me of such things this morning )

Hey PQ, this makes me happy to no end that you posted back here!

Oh yes, I'd love to sink my teeth into Ian... wait... that wasn't what you asked, was it?

Ugh... evil temptress... you know very well I just can't say no if it's anything to support Ian. But I haven't even had time to post the news on my site (or LJ)... but then the Easter break is coming up and I'll have a few days off then... mhmmm....

Okay... not saying yes, I really have to think about it. Could you PM me with some details?

And hey Pixie Queen!!! Great to see you again!!

Aw, really? You're that happy about it? Good to see you. Kind of.

I started on book one weeks ago but haven;t had alot of time to read much but I am itching to pick it back up.

Hey Maja! Selkie trying to talk you into the website game? *peeks, joking* I'm back here smiling a bit obviously.

Aww, that makes me sad! The kind of I mean. For what it's worth, Saturday afternoons are sort of the one time a week where I'm totally all about what my 6 year old son wants to do, which currently is swimming. Do I really just get a kind of though?

Kenn, can you talk to Maja and tell her what we were thinking about? I think it's better if you two could talk directly.

When Maja says she'll "think", good things always end up happening!

The kind of only implies that I can 'see you' meaning 'see your posts'. . And of course not, I should have been more clear, but I do like 'talking' to you. You know that. No worries, things haven't been so easy on my end either so I totally get where you're coming from. You get more than 'kind of' really. I'm very, very glad to 'see you', in all actuality, it's been way too long.

And, uhm, if that makes no sense, I apologize. I'm currently falling asleep and multi-tasking alot of stuff.

Good luck, Maja

Hey MajaBee, good to meet you here. I wanted to talk about this outside of the PM thing in public, cause it's going to be public pretty soon. Selkie can tell you, but I'm sort of the individual behind the scenes who defines where we are going to go with MB. Personally, having a chance to support Ian is really the reason that we formed MB and made it what it is. If I had a chance to describe what we want to do with this site, and why the Directors of the site keep it going, it is really just to tweak things with the publicists and the shows, etc to keep things going for people like Ian, who have touched all of our lives. So MB is going to support Ian in whatever he does. and you can take that to the bank. MB wouldn't exist without Ian having sent me a personal email way back in the Young American days, and having encouraged me to keep doing this. That is what it is though. We have moved on from that and have some cool stuff going on. We sort of started doing that for a lot of people along the way, and we have some pretty good contacts with MediaBlvd Magazine. Unofficially, MB is kind of set up to do whatever we can to make sure Ian becomes the next Tom Cruise. Hopefully he will remember us then. The weird thing is we had to expand when we started doing the magazine and we found a lot of other people who were just as deserving for us to try to tweak their careers. If you took Ian our of the picture, Paul Wesley is kind of there next in line. So for what it is worth, we are going to promote this show heavilly.

I'm tickled pink that everyone is embracing this.

Personally, I'm tickled purple.

I'm up for, well, anything at this point. If need be

Kenn - Purple?

hi, gals(& guy)--this is wonderful what you people are proposing to do)) will send Ian an e-mail tonight about THIS)) MAJA, do not be hasty in your decision --this one might explode, and your slate is full already-lol)

have been trying to find out when the pilot will start shooting -- haven't had any contact with the BOY in a few days )) this looks somewhat official(remember this was to start shooting, I think, around the 23/March) <<
VAMPIRE DIARIES, THEDirector: Marcos SiegaExec. Prod: Kevin Williamson, Julie Plec, Bob Levy, Leslie MorgensteinLine Producer: Pascal VerschoorisPD: Jillian ScottPM: Wayne BennettPC: Eva MorganLM: Sheri MayervichCasting: Mayrs/BrandstatterExtras: Sandra Ken FreemanSched: Mar 30/09 - Apr 16/092880 Underhill Ave., North OfficesBurnaby, BCV5A 3C5TEL: 637 >>))(( so it looks like 30/MARCH----> 16/APRIL))) ....pilot will be shot in Canada, as will the show if picked up, in the Vancouver area)) which will require the actors to move to this area-- the ones not living in area..

Hey Old-man, thanks for the update about the show. Thanks also for the advice to Maja, that is well given. We tend to go overboard here at times, and it would be hard to imagine anything you or anyone could say to temper our interest in jumping on this show. But your advice is much appreciated.

Selkie filled me in on your connection to this forum, and we haven't talked before. I should tell you though, that this entire website largely exists because at one point along time ago Ian was gracious enough to say thank you to me for us covering Young Americans. That was a bit of motivation at a time when it was sorely needed, and to a large extent, led to this.

I have two sons of my own, and I can only hope that they grow up to be as giving as Ian has been. We'd put up everything to support that young man, or I should say I'd put up everything that MediaBlvd is or has ever acheived to do whatever we could for Ian, totally based on probably something that he just did because it's how he does things, saying thank you I mean. That being said, it means a lot, and is something that we hold dear here at MB, that one email so long ago. I can't wait for us to have a website featuring this show, and I hope Maja can find the time to help out with it.

Kenn

Oh dear god NO!!!! I can't even watch anything with that guy in it anymore after all his crazy antics.

Hey Kenn! Good to see you. Funny, on the weekend I was looking at that magazine you gave me in Vegas - the one with the Shaun/Jericho story.

Hmmm, perhaps a trip to the West Coast is in order in the future?? I can always say that I was craving fresh sea food...maybe Sceve will buy that one?

This show is based on a series of books? I didn't know that. I'll have to check them out at the library.

Confirmed on the weekend that I do in fact get The CW. It's the network on which I watch Legend of the Seeker. (What?!?!? Everyone's got at least one guilty pleasure.)

It is. They're really interesting, I haven't had much time to read but if you're interested you can read more here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vampire_Diaries and here http://www.vampire-diaries.net/ (spoliers are there obviously)

*iz google ninja* On a sort of related note, I'm halfway through the first book today - I'll have to go pick up the others tomorrow after my science exam (kind of addictive!)

hi , KENN..those are really nice words you said about Ian --hope he warrents(sp) them!)) really apprecited the effort you people are willing to expend fostering his career, and I know he will second that))**NOTE: I am not fond of typing -- lazy, and too damn old to change -- so will dispence with most caplization, puncuation, and grammatical structure..all those things one needed to do to get a passing grade )) by-the-way, name is robbie --- too much of that "old-man" stuff and I am subject to lose half of my younger fanbase(smiles) ))(( recieved an e-mail form Ian this morning-waiting for a call- he is in Canada, so am assuming that pilot is prepping/shooting(?)..THANKS gang!!___________PS:...and we are not even going to talk about spellling ability

Hey Robbie, nice to meet you. Don't worry about the spelling and punctuation stuff. I have a PhD in aerospace engineering, and I can't spell for ****, so I have a group of editors who I drive crazy correcting me for the magazine. I think Ian does deserve what we can do for him. It may not be a lot, but you might be surprised how much notice MediaBlvd gets, and we like to do what we can to help the people that seem to deserve it.




I meant the Tom Cruise thing only in the amount of fame and more money than god sense! That's awesome you were looking at that mag! Shaun still talks about you from meeting you that weekend! You should check out his daily show (he now does a radio show everyday at 3PM Pacific at blogtalkradio.com/shaunomacradio)

I need to buy these books now I guess.

Kenn

was outside building a target support, it started raining and I decided to share what I was thinkng--do this on occasion--about..no psychoanalization, please )) was thinking that Vancouver must be the vampire capital(sorry, Transalvaina) of the world --they 'got-ta' be coming out of the wood work--lol)) is not this where the TWLIGHT sequel is being made?)) should make for an interesting meeting of rival vampires in old downtown Vancouver)) if they started biting each other, would we end up with the TWILIGHT DIARIES?? )) *QUESTION*---> can vampires, you know, like make little vamps, or they more like mules, mostly impotent and sterile?...humm, vampire propagation..um ..naw!))))((((( KENN, that PhD in aerospace is some kind of impressive!! closest I came to aerospace engineering was hauling liquid H2(NASA/AIR PRODUCTS) mid 60s ))this was the formulative years with the crygonetics(sp)--we would go right to the big BIRD--would take ten 10,000 gal tanker(trucks) to cool a sphere holding tank. because of boil-off)))) lots of NASA here and in near-by Mississippi ))have to say that astro-physics has always intrigued me, though I have always leaned more to the metaphysical--not like my Russian friend I_S :)___not sure that an areospace engineer really needs to buy these books.LOL)) anyway, they are deviating from them somewhat, and that might cause mental conflicts..

Uh oh... someone asked a question about vampires. Robbie you just woke the "monster" in me. LOL!

Vampires in literature (and I could movies and TV shows as some kind of literature as well) has always been one of my main interests. I wrote my final thesis for my A- levels on Dracula (and Frankenstein), did a seminar on gothic novels at university and um... yeah... I consider myself an expert.

Unfortuantely there's no straight answer to your question. Because vampires are such a popular genre, there are a lot of variations. Every author tries to be "different", set a different set of rules for his/her vampires. Sometimes sunlight kills them, sometimes they sparkle. Some are allergic to garlic, some aren't. Same with crosses. Some sleep in coffins, some sleep in beds. Some are also shape-shifters, some stay in the same shape and body since the day they were turned. Well, you get the picture.
So an important part of every vampire story is to explain the rules and kinda make fun of some other rules that are commonly known about vampires. Like "what? Afraid of garlic? Haha, that's just the legend. I happen to love garlic pizza!"
Of course sometimes the rules are the same because there are only so many variations of the same theme and then authors influence each other and copy their predecessors. (which - imho - is not necessarily a bad thing)

So about the baby thing... and I assume you mean making babies in the "traditional", human way and not turning a baby into a baby-vampire: basic line: Some can, some can't.
The Anne Rice vampires can't even have sex - as far as I remember. The vampires in the Sookie Stackhouse novels can have sex but not make or have babies. In Twilight they can have both (sex and babies) - but the latter only if one partner is human.
It's pretty much up to the author what he/she wants/ needs for their story.
In the "classic" novels like Dracula, there's - of course - no mention of sex (not directly anyway) but the the final chapter of the book mentions Mina's son, so some like to interpret this as a sign that Mina's child is actually Dracula's.

I think most of the time vampires can't have/make babies since their bodies are dead and unable to "function" in the normal, human way.

*takes a deep breath*

Do you want me to go one?

You could, but I'd probably be right there with you I was going to answer Robbie but didn't know if you want to plus I would've been just as long winded.

More vampire rules to keep track of now I can't wait for this series, and I really hope it gets picked up ... There can't be too many vamp series if you ask me, and one that has Ian will only have an extra plus