The Vampire Diaries, a new teen television series on The CW network based on author L.J. Smith's 1991 trilogy of books, will be filmed in downtown Covington, GA. Covington will play the role of the small Virginia town of Mystic Falls.
"When the writers came and visited Covington and saw the square, it was exactly what they had pictured for Mystic Falls," said Jessica Royal, a Bonanza Productions employee. Bonanza is producing the series in association with Warner Brothers.
Covington was chosen because of the great incentives offered by Georgia and the film-friendly environment of Covington.
Covington has a proven track record of hosting successful films and television productions. Covington has been a very welcoming environment for production companies for many years.
There will be at least 12 episodes filmed in Covington. If the show is successful, the first season will be extended, and the final additional episode would be finished filming sometime in April 2010.
We in Covington, hopes the show will be successful and picked up for a second season, in which case filming would start back up again in June. Covington will be the set for the main location of Mystic Falls, so the show will require several other locations around Georgia.
The Vampire Diaries shares many similarities to the more recently popular Twilight series, centering on a high school student who becomes interested in a mysterious male classmate who turns out to be a vampire.
The CW Web site provides a brief description of the show: "Elena Gilbert has always been a star student: beautiful, popular and involved with school and friends. As the fall semester begins, Elena becomes fascinated with the mysterious new boy in school, Stefan Salvatore, and she has no way of knowing he is a centuries-old vampire. While Stefan struggles to live peacefully among humans, his brother Damon is the embodiment of violence and brutality. Now these two vampire brothers - one good, one evil - are at war for Elena's soul in the small town of Mystic Falls, Virginia."
The three main characters will be played by actors Nina Dobrev, currently in the CW series Degrassi: The Next Generation; Paul Wesley, who has recently appeared in episodes of 24 and Army Wives; and Ian Somerhalder, who played Boone Carlyle on Lost.
The show will premiere September 10 at 8 p.m. on The CW. For more information about the show and to see a trailer visit The CW's Web page at cwtv.com/shows/the-vampire-diaries.
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