Sam Raimi, who produced the feature-film adaptation of the vampire graphic novel 30 Days of Night, told reporters that he is waiting to see how the first film does before moving on to adapt the next story in the series, Dark Days.

“I only read it once, and it was a few years ago, but I thought it was great at the time,” Raimi said in a news conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., this week. “And it is very different, and I don’t know if there’s going to be a sequel to 30 Days of Night, nor do I know [that] if there was, it would be based upon that. You’d have to see if it’s successful at the box office.”

The original 30 Days of Night comic was part of a three-issue series by writer Steve Niles and Templesmith. Set in the remote town of Barrow, Alaska, where the sun doesn’t rise for 30 days during the winter, it centers on sheriff Eben Olemaun and his wife Stella, who must fight off a horde of hungry vampires.

Raimi said a sequel would depend on whether audiences demand one. “And then if they do, I’d probably huddle with Ben and Steve and my partner, Rob Tapert, and figure out what they thought it should be,” Raimi said. “Mostly I want to be true, if there was a sequel, to the books. I think that’s what got us here in the first place.”

Two more comic series followed the first one: Dark Days, which brings back Stella and some of the original vampires from the original, and Return to Barrow, which follows the story of the brother of one of the survivors of the original attack.

Raimi pointed out that he’s never been averse to sequels in the past and that they have always been a part of his creative process. “We’ve always made sequels, myself and my friends, Scott Spiegel, Bruce Campbell, Rob Tapert,” he said. “So making those sequels to the Evil Dead movies was nothing new, and to me it’s always been just a return to familiar sets and approaches and working within that known setup. It kind of saves time in storytelling.”

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