New Novela Aims To Go After The 'Twilight' Crowd

By Michael Lopez

It looks like the Latin American novela world will soon be getting a taste of brooding teen vampires. Taking a page out of the Twilight playbook, Televisa's Tiin channel has just announced its newest soap, Luna Roja, originally created in Portugal.

To be honest, we're actually surprised the novela world hasn't capitalized on this trend sooner. Twilight has been huge with international audiences, particularly because of its elements of high drama and forbidden love.

Roja promises to include all that and then some. Set at a strict boarding school, it's got a sexy young Latina, a pale bloodsucker in a trench coat, and plenty of angry humans with big wooden stakes in their hands.

Set to begin airing later this month, we expect Luna Roja to hit big with the goth romance crowd. That is, until Breaking Dawn Part 2 arrives in theaters.

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