Sounds to me like the CBS series Moonlight - isn't that a human girl falling for a male vampire.  I've never watched Buffy, but I thought that was also the case with Buffy and Angel. 

I think it's been done - that's some pretty big shoe to fill to try and do it again!!

After Ellen..came me!! 18 years to the day later to be extact!!

Hmmm... sounding slightly familiar I must say, although the 'Me Tarzan. You Jane' element is indeed a surprising twist!!!! 

My daughter got the books for Christmas and as fan of the vampire genre I gave them a shot. They are definitley written for teens but I didn't mind them. As a die hard Buffy fan I can say that they are not in the same class as far as intelligence or appeal. Being as the books also involve werewolves I found more similarities to Underworld and the Anita Blake novels than I did Buffy. 

I'll watch the movie but it will take a lot more maturity for me to enjoy this as a series. 

I couldnt be a bigger fan of Buffy.  Huge. For years.  

When my friend got me twilight two years ago for christmas I was like "ehhh, I dont like vampire stories" because nothing will ever beat buffy.  When I finally sat down to read it.... well lets skip ahead to the part where I have all three books, all signed by stephenie meyer and I have never once thought that Buffy and Twilight are similar.  Stephenie Meyer has created a completely different world with different rules and ideas.  I dont know why people seem to always try and compare. Buffy wasnt the first vampire story and probably wasnt the first story about a good vampire.

 This vampires dont have "souls" in fact.. the main character doesnt believe he has a soul at all....  The "good" vampires in this series are BAD.... they just decide to be good.  They dont dust, and they dont die in sunlight (in fact, they shimmer!) and the whole I suck your blood you suck mine thing doesnt happen.. its venom in the bite. Anyway, couldnt be more different from Joss Whedons Buffy. (I do think that Stephenie Meyer is lying when she says she has never seen an episode because her sister is a huge fan...but she certainly didnt rip off any storylines... in fact... the story came from a dream she had)

I LOVE Kristen Stewart and she was who I had in mind when I read the book. I think that the movie should be really good despite some of the changes.

For anyone that is interested in the vampire mythology or the books they should visit twilightlexicon.com. (MTV really just accidentally stumbled upon the popularity of the book...... they dont really know anything about it) ;)

 *steps off soapbox*
whoops. hehe  :)

The scary thing is.. I'm a completely non-obsessive fan compared to most of them!

a friend of mine got me addicted to them recently. it has your typical teen drama and all that jazz but overall they are very good. so far there are 3 books Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse and a 4th one due out in the fall. i really got into them and finished each of them in a day or so

http://jln62390.blogspot.com/

off so much.  It's one thing that it seemed like Moonlight was biting from Buffy, but for this movie  to bring that whole vampire with a soul storyline again, irks me.  As you've probably guessed i'm a die hard, or as I like to say crazy estatic Buffy fanantic, and one of the biggest appeals to the show besides the obvious good writing and willow was that it was centered around this doomed Romeo and Juliet romance that help make the show what it was.  To say that one has never watched the show is fine but you can not tell me that a person hasn't heard of it in passing especially when writing on a subject, vampires, that requires some kind of research.  Type in "vampire" anywhere and I most definetly sure you'll come across the Great Almighty Joss.  Pay some Respect! Nough Said! 

"I don't kiss girls who wear doilies"

www.myspace.com/xander121212

Eeeeee! Kristen Stewart is PERFECT for this role, seriously everytime i see a photo of her it reminds me of Bella Swan herself. Im so psyched for this movieee!

 The guy playing Edward better not screw it up! lol

I'm a buffy and angel fan and an anne rice fan, and the "Twilight" books are doing their own thing really. The idea of taking a nonhuman character and humanizing them to a large degree, including making them regret their more nonhuman qualities, is nothing new. Buffy didn't invent that approach, neither did Anne Rice.

I don't find the twilight series derivative in any blantant way, but all these story lines revolve around the "pinocchio" idea of a character wanting to be a "real boy" or else another character wanting to be nonhuman. And all those desires revolve around the fact that two beings from different worlds fell for eachother.

If anything, I think Twilight resembles "Roswell" MUCH more than Buffy. And the movie is going to be great-Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are perfectly cast!

books amazing.

kristen stewart, amazing.

life is then amazing. :] cant wait for the movie.

plus. she's a babe. nothing wrong with babes.

they are just so nicely written and well... i just like them.

a movie about the books could be fascinating, but i don't think pattison is the right choice. as for kristen, i go for it ;-)

My friend is obsessed with this series and made me read all three. I HATED them.

For those who have no idea, the storyline is about as stereotypically heterosexual as you can get. The relationship between Bella and Edward (the vampire) is completely unbalanced. He has all the power to make decisions, keeps secrets from her and is ridiculously overprotective.

Somehow, the majority of males that Bella makes friends with fall in love with her. The only reason I kept reading was some vain hope that Alice (Edward's foster sister) would turn out to be gay. So far no luck.

Comparing this to Buffy is an insult to Joss Whedon.

"Aperture Science.
We do what we must
Because we can.
For the good of all of us.
Except the ones who are dead" - Portal

I adore Buffy more than I can say (I'm actually doing a complete series marathon at the moment -- I just hit season four!), and I enjoy the Twilight series. Still, it's like comparing apples and oranges; Buffy manages to make commentary on social issues and people in general in a very witty manner, whereas the Twilight books are simply well-written vampire/werewolf stories with some original ideas. I guess the Twilight series is sort of like Buffy during the high school years...but still, not really.

Anyway, I'm going to wait to pass judgment on the movie Twilight and all casting associated until I see it. I'm more interested in the adaptation of New Moon anyway, considering that's my favorite story in the series. However, I will say that I chortled when I heard about Robert Pattinson's casting (I've been deep in Harry Potter fandom for years, so that's why), and Kristen Stewart doesn't really do anything for me at this point. They might surprise me, though.

I don't think the relationship between the human Bella and vampire Edward can be applied to real world circumstances. It's not gender based when Edward does things that are a sorta wacked in the relationship-its based on more on his gf's humanity and thus vulnerability to the supernatural forces around her.

He goes overboard in his protective issues at first, but he learns that he can't act like that or else he will ruin his relationship. Also, the vampire Edward is also dealing with issues of differing sensibilities-he's from 1917-his need to learn how to get out of that timeframe is part of the process of him and bella negotiating their love.

I think attempting to psychologize these characters in real world ways is sorta missing the point-cause their world iis inhabited by vampires and werewolves, unlike ours.