It seems the vampire craze is going to be around for a while yet and its latest victim is Amy Heckerling. The once awesome director of such films as “Fast Times At Ridgemont High,” “Clueless,” and “National Lampoon’s European Vacation” has been in a decade plus long slide, helming such dreck as “A Night At The Roxbury,” “Loser” and her latest fiasco, the straight-to-video bomb “I Could Never Be Your Woman.”
Today it was announced that Parlay Films (yeah, we’ve never heard of them either) have acquired the international rights to Heckerling’s latest film, a romantic comedy called “Vamps” (*sigh*). The plot is everything you might have guessed from the title, but for the sake of clarity, Heckerling’s script is “a modern-day tale of two young female vampires living the good life in New York until love enters the picture and each has to make a choice that will jeopardize their immortality.” FML
Krysten Ritter graduates from playing such roles as Poncho Model, Girl on couch, Art History Student and Innocent Bystander (check her IMDB page if you don’t believe us) and will be taking one of the female leads, while producers search for another actress who wants to be the next hybrid of Sarah Jessica Parker and Kristen Stewart. No word yet on who will play the pale, poofy haired love interests.
Filming is set to begin in March, and we’re just going to go ahead and assume that you will probably be able to find this on DVD by the end of 2010. We’ve had enough of the vampire craze and just reporting about this film is giving us the urge to crash the set in the spring and expose the film to sunlight/drive a stake through the script/[insert your own vampire analogy here].