History Trivia / BloodAndChocolate2007

* CreatorKiller: The failure of the film put director Katja von Garnier's career in limbo for years. She had a strong commercial comeback with the successful ''Windstorm'' (''Ostwind'') trilogy. However, she has yet to direct an English language production again.

* FakeNationality: Although the story's setting is moved to Romania for the film, few of the main characters are played by Romanians; most of them just use their own accents rather than imitating a Romanian one (it's more justified in Vivian's case, given she was initially raised in America, so it's understandable she would have an American accent). This includes Creator/OlivierMartinez as Gabriel (French), Katja Riemann as Astrid (German), Bryan Dick as Rafe (English) and Chris Geere as Ulf (English again).

* FollowTheLeader: The film adaptation appears to draw upon the ''Film/{{Underworld|2003}}'' franchise, which had been quite successful at the time (''Underworld: Evolution'' came out the year before ''Blood and Chocolate''), more so than the book, such as featuring more action, moving the setting to Central/Eastern Europe, the gothic aesthetic and so on. The fact it was made by some of the people who produced ''Underworld'' likely has a lot to do with this.

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: There were plans to make a movie adaptation of ''Blood and Chocolate'' as early as when the book was first published back in 1997, but it was delayed for years due to multiple directors and screenwriters dropping out. Production finally got into full swing in 2005/2006; filming was completed in 2006 and the film was released in January 2007, a full decade after the book's publication.

* CreatorKiller: The failure of the film put director Katja von Garnier's career in limbo for years. She had a strong commercial comeback with the successful Windstorm (Ostwind) trilogy. However, she has yet to direct an English language production again.

* DisownedAdaptation: She wasn't hugely scathing and expressed hope it could work on its own merits, but Annette Curtis Klause made it clear in a 2006 [[https://web.archive.org/web/20110708032643/http://cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com/2006/01/author-update-annette-curtis-klause.html interview]] that she wasn't keen on the many changes made to the story and sympathized with disappointed fans. She particularly disliked that the film changed the story's setting and character ages, feeling that it "kind of negates the whole point of the plot--werewolves could be sitting right next to you in your high school homeroom". Klause had little involvement in the film's production and wasn't kept in the loop by filmmakers, relying on the internet for updates.

* FollowTheLeader: The film adaptation appears to draw upon the ''Film/{{Underworld|2003}}'' franchise, which had been quite successful at the time (''Underworld: Evolution'' came out the year before ''Blood and Chocolate''), more so than the book, such as featuring more action, moving the setting to Central/Eastern Europe, the gothic aesthetic and so on.

* BoxOfficeBomb: The film had a budget of $15 million and was released in 1200 theatres, but only managed to gross $6.3 million.

* CreatorKiller: The failure of the film put director Katja von Garnier's career in limbo for years. She did as strong commercial comeback with the successful Windstorm (Ostwind) trilogy. However, she has yet to direct an English language production again.

* FollowTheLeader: The film adaptation appears to draw upon the ''Film/Underworld2003'' franchise, which had been quite successful at the time (''Underworld: Evolution'' came out the year before ''Blood and Chocolate''), more so than the book, such as featuring more action, moving the setting to Central/Eastern Europe, the gothic aesthetic and so on.

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