FOX Courts Bitches

Fox has ordered a script for a dramedy called Bitches, described as a "hairy Sex and the City." Bitches is about four, quirky, female friends in New York... who happen to be werewolves. The script is by Michael Dougherty, screenwriter of the horror flick, Trick r' Treat - another werewolf tale.

Some weeks back, Vulture was already hyping "the return of the werewolf," pointing to the recent resurgence of vampires (True Blood, Twilight). I was going to bring you the story - even bookmarked the article - and poo-pooed the idea (cough); this is planted hype and it's insulting.

A little over 10 years ago, a gaming company called White Wolf released a little game you might have heard of, called Vampire. Quick on the heels of its massive success came a game called - wait for it! - Werewolf. Coincidence? Maybe. But a few years before that saw a rash of vampire movies - including some obscure cult favorites you might have missed, like Near Dark and Lost Boys - which came a scant decade or so after a rash of vampire-related releases featuring some guys with names like Frank Langella and Christopher Lee.

You can continue to trace this cycle back, with differing spans between the times, all the way back to around the 1930s.

© C Harris Lynn, 2008