
David Slade, who directed the upcoming vampire film 30 Days of Night, told SCI FI Wire that he wanted the look of the film to closely match the look of the graphic novel by writer Steve Niles and artist Ben Templesmith."I loved Ben's illustrations," Slade said in an interview. "It's what drew me to the graphic novel in the very beginning, before the idea of the movie, when I actually picked it up off the newsstand and bought it, actually from Golden Apple Comics in L.A. And when I was working with my production designers, the first thing I said was, 'I'm not really interested so much in Barrow, Alaska, but Ben's Barrow.'"