This won’t come as a surprise to anyone. Told that there’s already natter at HBO regarding transferring (fellow countryman) Stephen Moyer’s series True Blood to cinema screens. The show, starring Moyer and real-life bride Anna Paquin, is the flagship show for the cabler and quite simply, a phenomenon. It’s insane how popular this thing is! Of course they’re thinking of ways to further exploit that brand!

I imagine what HBO will do is another season… maybe two… and then transition into the multiplexes - same thing they’re doing with Entourage and did with Sex and the City. All I could get was that it would happen “sooner rather than later” and that there’s a “chance” Alan Ball may want to direct. Grisly rumour but a believable one.

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