New Line Cinema playing with Vampire

And they say that the Hollywood 'idea well' is all but dried up.

New Line Cinema has optioned feature rights for the role-playing video game (just not enough games turned films, y'know?) "Vampire: The Requiem" from White Wolf Publishing for producer Adam Fields. Variety says the studio is eyeing the property as a potential franchise property.

The game introduces a contemporary horror universe that details the night-to-night life of vampires. Just as it's up to the game players to create characters and plots, a screenwriter will also be charged with creating characters and a storyline for the adaptation.

"Requiem" and its ancillary role-playing products will be published Aug. 30 through White Wolf's World of Darkness imprint. The game is a successor to White Wolf's 1991 "Vampire: The Masquerade," which spawned the short-lived 1996 Fox series "Kindred: The Embraced".

Source: MovieHole.net