Over enkele weken komt 30 Days of Night: Dark Days rechtstreeks op DVD en Blu-Ray uit, en in dit vervolg op 30 Days of Night uit 2007 zien we hoe één overlevende uit het eerste deel wederom de strijd aan gaat met bloed dorstige vampieren die niet vonkelen. Maar goed de website Shock Till You Drop had een interview met de regiseur Ben Kentai, die vooral zo trouw mogelijk aan de eerste film en de comic book reeks probeerd te blijven.

Shock: First off, how did a sequel to the first film come about?

J.R. Young: After the release of the first film and the DVD release, there was enough of a fan following that Sony was interested in doing a sequel. The obvious place to start was Dark Days, the second book of graphic novels. Ben [Ketai] came aboard and had already directed a Web series also based on the 30 Days universe so it was a perfect fit for him along with Steve Niles, the creator of the graphic novel.

Shock: How closely does the film follow the graphic novel?

Ben Ketai: It remains faithful to the story that is told in the first graphic novel and there are a lot of characters you will see that are similar, some got cut out for purposes of pacing. We did some things that were different. It was great to work with Steve on the script because I felt like everything we were doing was okay. He's the godfather of that universe, so he is the best person to guide what needs to stay and what can change. So we worked really hard just in the initial stages of scripting to adapt it for the screen but maintain what Dark Days really is.

Shock: We are seeing some of the characters from the first movie then?

Young: Stella carries on. She's the survivor from Barrow. In this story about a year later, she is going out to get the word out. Not that it was an oil fire that destroyed Barrow, but it was vampires that destroyed her town. She is the anchor from the first film that carries into this one.

Shock: Will the vampires look any different in this movie than in the first movie?

Ketai: We tried to carry over the vision from 30 Days of Night with the same texture and color in their flesh, the black eyes and the teeth. On this budget, we didn't have the luxury of digitally affecting their faces. The people that stepped in to play the roles of the vampires such as Mia [Kirshner] and our Canadian cast that showed up to play vampires. They did such a great job of articulating what it was like to be a vampire that at the end of the day it didn't matter.