Sleepless Nights – Revamped: The 2003 Indie Vampire Epic Rises Again in 2018...

If you like gothic horror like DARK SHADOWS or DRACULA... if you support INDIE HORROR... or if you're just an all-around VAMPIRE fan, then please consider giving SLEEPLESS NIGHTS your support...

 
I'll soon be launching an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for a new Blu-ray/DVD edition of my first film, the 2003 indie vampire epic, SLEEPLESS NIGHTS.

But rather than just putting out a new disc of the same old film, I'm planning to do a major reedit, utilizing alternate takes and some newly shot footage, while also replacing most of the film's special effects, commissioning a new score, and making a bunch of other changes and improvements. And of course, everything will be up-rezzed to HD.  

I'm hoping I'll be able to raise enough to do a complete overhaul of the film and make the new release the "Ultimate Edition" – totally restored, remastered and REVAMPED. But I'm going to need your help to make it happen. Please go to Indiegogo right now and sign up to be notified by email when the SLEEPLESS NIGHTS REVAMPED fundraising campaign launches. And help me get the word out about SLEEPLESS NIGHTS REVAMPED by sharing the Indiegogo pre-launch page with all your horror and vampire film fans on Facebook, Twitter or wherever you hang out...

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sleepless-nights-revamped-horror--2/coming_soon/x/11545292

Also, please join the SLEEPLESS NIGHTS Facebook page to get all the latest news about the Indiegogo campaign and the Blu-ray/DVD release: 

https://www.facebook.com/SleeplessNightsTheMovie/

Thanks :)

– Bill Hopkins

My Screenplay for SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, the 2003 Indie Vampire Thriller

As I was rummaging though my collection of SLEEPLESS NIGHTS memorabilia, looking for possible perks to offer contributors to our upcoming Indigogo campaign, or anything that might be worth including on the eventual Blu-ray/DVD release of the film, I came across this copy of the SLEEPLESS NIGHTS screenplay.

I started working on the first drafts of this script in the late 80s. At the time there was a lot of illness and death in my family, so the idea of writing about characters who can live forever appealed to me.

This was the second vampire-themed script I'd written, the first being CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT, which Columbia Tri-Star made into a film with Karen Black in 1991. Despite that modest success in the vampire genre, this script went unproduced until 1999, when it finally found its way in front of the cameras, thanks to producers Howard Nash and Frank Cilla.

My opinion of it is biased, of course, but I think it still reads pretty well. I've read (and written) worse.

Incidentally, one of the main characters in the script is named CHRISTIAN GREY, though our guy shows no sign of being into anything particularly kinky (other than drinking blood and lying around in a coffin). We had the name first, though admittedly other authors have had greater success with its use in the years since.

Read my 1999 screenplay for SLEEPLESS NIGHTS here: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LUAvgEdsPRTd6-E4FQBxZwRBz2V9Wps0/view?usp=sharing