It's a good thing I found out that The Passage was the first in a trilogy, before I finished reading it, which I just did. When I first downloaded it as an audiobook, I didn't know anything about it beyond the basic premise of apocalypse via vampires. After getting into it and picking up the book too, I had to look up if it was going to be turned into a movie, because it had that kind of feel, even if the book is huge and has a lot of characters. Turns out Ridley Scott is attached to the movie right now, and that I was going to be left hanging at the end of book.

I wonder if Scott is going to keep Alicia as she is in the story. I heard a comments/complaints about another book adaption, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, saying how the more interesting bad-ass character was Lisbeth, while Mikael was kind of a boring and passive*. So I'm thinking that Peter, who could be considered the central character for the majority of the book, is going to be kicking a bit more ass in a Ridley Scott adaptation.

Alicia in The Passage sort of reminds me of Aeryn Sun from Farscape or Faith from B:tVS, although I don't think she gets to wear leather pants.

Anyway, I just finished the book, and I'm looking to see when part two comes out. 2012? Aw, sheesh.




*A a detail I'm sure they'll try to -er- fix, with Daniel Craig in the Mikael role for the English language adaptation.