Kevin Williamson Interview

Zap2it has an interview with Kevin Williamson.

Read the entire interview here.

Here is an excerpt from the interview:

Were you familiar with the “Vampire Diaries” books before you got involved in the series?
KW: No, they sent me the book like a year before we actually did it — I think for a feature film — and I looked at it, but “Twilight” was already in the pipeline, so I was just like, no way. I wasn’t interested. And then it came back around about a year later. I was having lunch with Julie Plec and Jennifer Bresnan, who is a lifelong friend, who worked for me for eight years, and now she’s an executive at The CW. We were all hanging out and she said that she had a project called “The Vampire Diaries” that she was looking for someone to adapt. And I said, oh my God, I know that book. I got to page 12. [Laughs] And that’s when Julie went, I love “Twilight,” I want to do a vampire show! And I was like, I’ll do it if you do it.

And then I read the first book and said, no way, because it was just like “Twilight.” But Julie Plec was already on book three by then, because she reads faster, and she was just like, keep reading it, so I kept reading it, and I went, you’re right, it’s not [like "Twilight"]. I said, if we can get to the other stuff sooner, than yes, let’s do it. And so we sort of rearranged things, so even though the first episode and the set up are the same — the guy comes to school, she meets him, all of that is the same in the pilot — once you get past that… as soon as Damon shows up, it’s totally different.