The very perceptive folks over at Dread Central noticed that Jim Hill Media has discovered that Disney may be throwing its hat into the blood-sucking ring with THE MAKER’S SONG series. I’ve never heard of the books, but then again, I had never heard of TWILIGHT or TRUE BLOOD either. Jim Hill’s proof apparently lies within the fact that Disney recently purchased some telling domain names: DANTETHEVAMPIREMUSCIAN.COM, DANTEROCKSTHENIGHT.COM, DANTEBYMOONLIGHT.COM. (Don’t bother looking at them because they’re not open. Yet.) These seemingly tie in with one of the book series’ main characters, named Dante.
So what’s THE MAKER’S SONG all about? (Not Maker’s Mark, but lemme tell ya, that’s what I’m thinking about right now.) Well, I’ll give you the synopsis for the first book, titled A RUSH OF WINGS:
Smart, sexy FBI Special Agent Heather Wallace has been trying to catch the Cross-Country Killer for three years when the trail leads to New Orleans and Club Hell, where Dante Prejean performs with the Inferno, an industrial/goth rock band. Dante is a Cajun and a born vampire whose memories of his terrible past have been erased, leaving him vulnerable to the psychopathic killer, E, who knows all that Dante has forgotten. As E begins targeting Dante’s loved ones, Heather must swallow her skepticism and work with Dante’s vampiric friends and family to save him.
The books were written by Adrian Phoenix, with the third chapter – BENEATH THE SKIN – being released soon. While the above synopsis doesn’t get my feet tapping, it seems just a bit more grisly than your TWILIGHT fare. However, this is Disney we’re talking about; they don’t have Miramax and Dimension under their thumb anymore, so it would be a Touchtone feature, and they don’t exactly venture out into controversial territory.
We’ll keep you posted if anything actually comes of this.