Steve was a busy man in demand at the Fangoria convention last week - here’s an interview with JoBlow.com that focuses on 30 Days of Night and the movie project Steve’s working on with Thomas Jane, Dark Country.

Did you incorporate elements from the other 30 DAYS OF NIGHT comics into the screenplay, or is it pretty much just the first one?

There’s some names, there are some different people that will show up, there’s stuff from DARK DAYS in there. The Kitka’s, who don’t show up until RETURN TO BARROW, they’re in it. It has Billy Kitka and his family in there…

The hardcore fans will pick up on these things…

Yeah. In that big oversized complete 30 DAYS OF NIGHT edition that IDW put out, I wrote the journal of a survivor who wasn’t part of Eben and Stella’s story, just someone who was hiding out in another house, who had murdered his family so the vampires wouldn’t get to them… They [the screenplay’s other writers Brian Nelson and Stuart Beattie] picked up his name and parts of his history and put it in the movie.

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