The reboot directed by Taylor and penned by Rolin Jones will be faithful to Rice’s books but not slavishly so. Thankfully, when speaking to Den of Geek about directing Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints of Newark, Interview with the Vampire series director Alan Taylor shed some light (but hopefully not sunlight) on the project. Now we’re closer than ever to seeing the definitive onscreen version of Rice’s original vision but details as to just what that will look like have been scarce. That all changed last year, however, when The Walking Dead network AMC greenlit a series adaptation of Rice’s vampire saga starring Sam Reid ( The Astronaut Wives Club) and Jacob Anderson ( Game of Thrones) as Lestat and Louis. As such, Rice’s 13-book (and counting) series seemed destined to stay on the page for good. Its follow-up, the 2002 Aaliyah-starring Queen of the Damned…was not. Interview with the Vampire, a film based on the writer’s first book in the vampire series, starred Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt as stately Louisiana vampires Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac. Nearly two decades before Twilight, Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles had all the makings of the definitive vampire movie franchise.
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