True Blood News - Season 4 news and spoilers

HBO aired a short video of Jason Stackhouse that is part of the “Screen Test” series – but with new footage and only of Bon Temps Sexy Tomcat played fantastically by Ryan Kwanten. (Seriously, he deserves so much credit for the way he portrays Jason.)

What are you looking forward to about Jason in Season 4? Any concerns about him taking care of the folks in Hotshot? Will he get back with Crystal when she comes back? Any chance we get to see him dance again this season?

HBO has announced that you can watch the first 3 minutes of True Blood Season 4 via HBO GO starting May 29th.

Watch the video below. Sookie spots Barry in the Fairyland!

If you haven’t registered for HBO GO yet, do it here.

UPDATE: ADDED HQ VERSION

Extra aired a new promo for True Blood on Friday, May 20th. We have seen some of this before, but there are some new things to sink our fangs into:

• Eric Northman will be doing public service announcements for the AVL?
• Bill Compton at a ribbon-cutting ceremony
• Tara Thornton is fed-up with vampires, again
• Nan Flanagan is giving orders to Bill and also doing another PSA

UPDATE: We have updated the video that was aired on Extra. This one does not have the intrusive ”Extra” and “Sneak Peek” in the way.

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The new Season 4 Waiting Sucks video is out. We get our first look at Marnie, the witch that supposedly has erased Eric’s memory. Pam is there and Tara has a gun with wooden bullets pointed at Pam. Jesus and Lafayette are also there.

Pam demands, “Fix my maker!”

Over at HBO’s Inside True Blood blog, Gianna Sobol explains a bit about a meeting that happens before production starts on an episode of True Blood. She writes about the meeting:

THE MEETING: The Tone Meeting

WHERE IT TAKES PLACE: Alan’s office

WHO ATTENDS: Alan Ball, Executive Producer Gregg Fienberg, the writer of each episode, the first Assistant Director, and the cinematographer

WHAT IT’S ABOUT (according to writer/producer Alexander Woo): The tone meeting is the first opportunity for the director to sit with Alan, Gregg, and the writer and talk about the episode scene by scene.  For new directors to our show, it’s an especially valuable time to clarify any issues about story, style, or tone.   If it’s Michael Lehmann, it’s his first chance during the episode to make puns before a captive audience.

Interesting eh? But as I was reading this, one line struck out at me… yeah, you’re right, it’s the one about director Michael Lehmann and the puns. The dude must be famous for these and I was wondering if any appeared in the True Blood episodes that he directed. Below are the episodes directed by Mr. Lehmann. Does anyone remember if there were any puns* that made it into the episodes?

• Escape From Dragon House 1:04 – We learn from Vampire Bill that vampires love puns, Fangtasia!
• The Fourth Man in the Fire 1:07
• Keep This Party Going 2:02
• Shake and Fingerpop 2:04
• Hard-Hearted Hannah 2: 06
• It Hurts Me Too 3:03
• I Got A Right to Sing The Blues 3:06
• I Small A Rat 3:10

*Wait, what exactly is a pun? From Webster: “The humorous use of a word, or of words which are formed or sounded alike but have different meanings, in such a way as to play on two or more of the possible applications; a play on words.”

I know this can be considered “old news” but if you are like me, you like any news about True Blood that you can get. Life Story magazine put out an issue mostly about Twilight, but there are 6 pages of an episode guide to Season 2, complete with comments by Alan Ball.

Alan Ball’s comments about episode 209: “I Will Rise Up”. “My favorite episode of [the] season. I love the whole story between Eric and Godric, and Sookie gets to see Eric’s human side. Then there’s the whole choice by Godric to move on; his attitude of, ‘I’m done and I want to embrace whatever is going to happen to me now, even if it means oblivion, even if it means the end.’ That last sequence was tough to shoot, because we shot part of it on a building rooftop in Los Angeles – where we basically had 20 minutes to get it because of the light – and then we shot part of it on a stage with green screen, then we went to Dallas and shot background plates so that you would have recognizable landmarks. Then there were all the special effects technology questions of how we were going to have Godric go up in flames. So it was tough, but I thought it paid off.”

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In an effort to help the Darnell family, Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin are auctioning off a number of items on eBay. Numerous True Blood sites and fan sites of both Anna and Stephen will be working together to promote the auction to raise the most money possible for the Darnell family. Please stay tuned to the Nest or your personal favorite True Blood site for your opportunity to own one (or more) of these items.

If you simply want to donate, you may do so on the family’s FaceBook page. or right here, below the post. You can read about their sad story here.

ANNA PAQUIN & STEPHEN MOYER ITEMS ON EBAY:

Autographed True Blood Season 1 DVD

Autographed True Blood Season 2 DVD

Autographed Season 3 Promotional Poster of Bill Compton

Autographed Season 3 Promotional Poster of Sookie Stackhouse

Cast Member Only Tru:Blood Backpack

The auctions end on Oct 19, 2010 @ 16:31 PDT

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