VAMPS just keep on castin’… Weeks ago, I wrote an article about four character actors joining the vampire-comedy from CLUELESS director Amy Heckerling, and here it is almost a full month later and people are still flocking to the thing.
Via a press release, we learn that Malcolm McDowell, Marilu Henner (“Taxi”) and Zak Orth (“Wet Hot American Summer”) have all come aboard the flick, which is currently filming in Detroit, Michigan.
VAMPS tells the modern day tale of two young beautiful female vampires (Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Ritter) living the good nightlife in New York until love enters the picture and each has to make a choice that will jeopardize her immortality.
Henner will portray Angela, a deathly ill woman who gets “awakened” to her former hot self. Orth will portray Renfield, a young nerdy friend of Stacy (Ritter) and Goody (Silverstone) who tries to be much more hardcore than he actually is, and McDowell will portray vampire Vlad Tepish, otherwise known as the infamous Vlad the Impaler, who enjoys wearing velvet jogging suits and knitting.
Hahaha! Can’t you picture it? Malcolm McDowell as a vampire who knits while wearing a jogging suit?! Oh man… Comedy gold.
Marilou Henner