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Julie Plec Reflects On 15 Years Of ‘The Vampire Diaries’ & Teases Upcoming YA Mystery Series ‘We Were Liars’
Julie Plec spoke with Deadline about the 15th anniversary of the Vampire Diaries pilot and teased her upcoming YA series We Were Liars
The pilot aired on Sept. 10, 2009, and, not only was it a resounding success, putting up what at the time was the largest premiere audience since the network debuted three years earlier, it also spawned an entire franchise that would last more than a decade. PLEC: The books definitely had a very, very steep genre bend very early…even in the early days of the writers room, we were doing a lot of pitches about things like talking and walking gargoyles and flying monkeys. So a lot of the changes really came from just trying to keep things as centered and grounded as possible, so that we weren’t losing control of the mythology too early, and making sure the tone felt very real world, even though the genre itself is so heightened.
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