Alan Ball: Looking Back and Looking Forward at True Blood

Abbie Bernstein with Buzzy Multimedia has an interesting new interview with True Blood‘s executive producer Alan Ball that reveals more about how he cast the show, the challenges of working in a new genre, and a few tidbits about what’s coming up.

As True Blood continues, Ball says, “I think we’re always going to use the books as sort of a foundation, but I just don’t see how, as time goes on, you can’t diverge from them a little bit more each season. I don’t know, though. We’re starting to work on Season Three and we actually are really, really sticking to the books, at the beginning at least.”

Anything Ball can tell us about where Season Three is going? “Season Three is a big Eric [the vampire played by Alexander Skarsgard] season and Season Four is really big for Eric’s character, according to the books.”

(read the full interview here…)