In issue 206 of Total Film magazine, we chat to Byzantium director Neil Jordan and stars Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan.

Jordan’s no stranger to the supernatural, having made a name for himself with The Company Of Wolves and Interview With The Vampire , and, according to Arterton, there’s a definite through line from those earlier films to Byzantium .

“I guess our film’s kind of like the female version [ of Interview With The Vampire] in some ways,” she told us.

“Two vampires that live together. One that’s the more reluctant vampire. Basically I’m Tom Cruise,” Arterton deadpanned.

“I guess our film has this domestic side to it that’s unusual. It feels like a sort of follow-up in a way. But also one of my favourite films is The Company Of Wolves . I feel like, because of the feminine aspects of it and imagery wise, it’s in that vein. So to speak.”

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Byzantium , the upcoming vampire saga from director Neil Jordan, has released a new image online as well as the first glimpse of an official synopsis.

The new snap shows stars Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan huddling together in front of what looks like a seafront attraction, looking less than thrilled with their situation.

The pair are vampires you see, and having fled the scene of a violent and bloody crime, they’re now looking for refuge at a run-down resort somewhere on the British coastline.

“Clara (Arterton), ever-practical, sells her body,” says the official blurb. “She soon meets shy and lonely Noel, who provides a roof over their heads in his seedy guesthouse, Byzantium. Clara, always looking towards the future, turns it into a ‘pop-up’ brothel.”

“Meanwhile Eleanor, the eternal schoolgirl, meets Frank, a kindred spirit who unwittingly prompts her to tell the truth about her life. She tells him that Clara is her mother; yet Clara is only a few years older. She says that she was born in 1804; yet she is just sixteen. She confesses that she must drink human blood to stay alive – and so must her mother. In the small, quiet town, people start to die.”

As weary as we are starting to feel with the whole vampire genre, this one does at least sound a little different from Twilight et al. We’ll find out for sure when the film opens in the UK later this year…

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