The graphic novel 30 Days of Night by Steve Niles is being turned into a film by Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures, and the latest news is this vampire horror movie is going to remain very faithful to the novel, as well as bring us a truly scary vampire.

The book, according to Sci Fi Wire, has a simple plot:

...about vampires descending on a small Alaska town at the beginning of a month of darkness.

To me that rings a little of that isolated feeling of The Thing remake, which really nailed that feeling down hard. The director, David Slade, had some really promising things to say about the adaptation which instantly pricked up my ears and got me thinking about how promising this is.

"We're faced with a tremendous task, which is making a scary vampire film. There aren't many of them. You can count them on two fingers," Salem's Lot and Nosferatu. "The rest of them, they fall into all kinds of traps. We're going to try to do our best to make a third one, and one of the ways we have to do it is to be more naturalistic than the graphic novel, because it's very over the top."

Interestingly Slade says that he won't be taking the Stuart Beattie (Collateral, Derailed and Spy Hunter) written script, but going for the Brian Nelson revision. Nelson is his writer for his current release Hard Candy. Despite that call, it sounds like they're going to stay faithful to the novel, anyone read it?