Seth Grahame-Smith
Seth Grahame-Smith
Seth Grahame-Smithis an American best-selling author, screenwriter, and producer of film and television. He is best known as the author of The New York Times best-selling novels Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, both of which have been adapted as feature films. Grahame-Smith is also the co-creator, head writer and executive producer of The Hard Times of RJ Berger, a scripted television comedy appearing on MTV. In collaboration with David Katzenberg, his partner in Katzsmith Productions,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth4 January 1976
CountryUnited States of America
Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.
There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.
The more precious His gift, the more anxious God for its return.
My day job is making TV shows.
Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?
However, it has long been said that "my enemy's enemy is my friend.
Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see
So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.
I nearly broke out laughing when the wrteched soothsayer warned Caesar: "Beware the Ides of April." I thought it a miracle (and a relief) that no one in the udience had snickered or yelled out a correction. How could such an error be made by an actor? Had my ears deceived me?
I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.
I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.
I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.
I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.
It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.