Happy Halloween - Email to All New Orleans Weres and Vamps

Jenny Anne

Here is what I and my press team have put together so far for the television series you suggested we make highlighting occult New Orleans. You may notice a majority of the stars are singers, when we release the albums and start them on tour we can split the profits!


Detective Renee St. Avid (Ashley Forrestier) – youngest child and only daughter of a decorated cop, her dad patrolled the parish out of uniform when a ‘friendly fire’ shooting took him temporarily out of the force. He stumbled on a string of murders – victims drained of blood - and investigated a supernatural angle despite lack of backing from his fellow cops. Killings escalated and St. Avid’s father felt he was getting closer to the truth but his search was cut short - he was found dead in an alley on the eve of mardi gras. The killings stopped, for a while. Now a detective herself Renee believes the killer has struck again. She has some hunches on where to look, if only the other members of the force would trust her instincts.

Eloi Castile – Renee’s gay roommate and best friend, professional martial artist and personal trainer. He believes her theories about the supernatural killer. He encourages her to keep searching.

Zenobia Barrow (India Arie) – practitioner of Voudon. Old childhood friend of Eloi.

Tara Favrot (Laura Jane Haddock) – an aspiring actress and singer, daughter of a well-to-do family who own a series of clubs in the French quarter. Hapless victim who turns out not to be quite so hapless. She provides the resources and connections for the group.


Episode one (two hour double-episode premier)

Renee and Eloi stake out an alley where two bodies had been found (bits of backstory are revealed as she explains how one was found in her father’s time and one more recently), they witness a vampire attack a young partier and drink from him. They leap into action, vamp flees, victim dies but not before saying he just came from Club 300.

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They plan to go the club for further investigation but first Eloi insists they consult with Zenobia, who joins them. The three arrive just in time to rescue Tara, the vamp (escaping) mutters something about having meant to leave a grand gift. Who? Tara suggests maybe Alouette, famous ‘vampire’ rock star who is visiting the club that night.

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Insert concert scene here.

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After the show the four follow Alouette and witness her stalking a well-dressed man. He offers her a rose, she has a knife. They try to intervene, the man bears fangs, Alouette bears fangs and attacks him, several other vamps jump from the shadows.

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Epic fight scene with Allouette and the team fighting against all the other vampires. Blood and dust everywhere (we’ll use the ‘dust’ effect a’la buffy unless you object. Fuck realism.). Renee trains her gun on Alouette at the end of the fight, Alouette ducks the bullet and mercilessly stakes the vamp who has been wounded at her feet. “Do you really think you’re my enemy?” Allouette asks.

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Do you really think you’re my enemy?” Alouette asks. “and do you think you’d still be breathing if you were?”. Alouette takes the team back to her lair, explains the reality of vamps and (weres) and magic. Explains that there are good and bad, controlled and wild. Etc etc. The group of vamps who killed Renee’s father are bad. If they want revenge (or justice, whatever) Alouette will teach them but they need to understand there is no turning back.

As makes for good television drama, they neglect to turn back.




Season one
- Alouette introduces them to her deputy Blaine (Jason Momoa) who teaches them about weres and vamps and stuff. I will rarely appear in the show (I have things to do) so he will stand as the local vamp leader (my character’s role in vamp-dom will be left undefined).
- the group follows clues and hunts ‘bad’ vamps
- the group discovers that the bad vamps are working with bad cops
- Zenobia becomes more of a witch, uses combat magic etc.
- Whenever plausible we put in scenes where one of the actors has to sing.
- Pull heavily on new Orleans vampire lore (especially when inaccurate but colorful such as kal287.wix.com/new-orleans-ghosts#!vampires/c1xe3)
- They also encounter other things of an occult/new Orleans flavor (zombies, gators, whatever) in iconic new Orleans settings (mardi gras, French quarter, spooky cool graveyards etc as you choose)
- eventually they find the boss of the bad vamps (who is also a dirty cop, of course, her father’s old partner). Brief appearance by myself to pass on a special vamp boss killing knife. They fight him, win, but discover another secret… he carries a silver bullet with a name etched on it.

Later
Season two involves werewolves.
Local were boss Dante (Dean O’Gorman), love interest for Eloi, who becomes a were mid season.
Season two also reveals dark secrets about Tara’s mother who may have been a siren. Tara learns bardic magic, giving us even more reasons to have them sing in the show.

Let me know what you think, we have already started filming but can make minor changes as you see fit and look forward to incorporating any suggestions you have about local locations and lore to include in the show.
much love

Alouette