'The Vampire Chronicles' and Lestat to return with 'Downey Jr.?'
(1976), Was put on the big paravent and was welcomed by fans. The series also gained more trend and earned more new fans from the movie and made over $223 million at the worldwide box occupation. It also helped that it had a meaty cast with Tom Cruise and new heartthrob Brad Pitt in the while away roles.A sequel was made eight years later, which combined elements from Rice's next two books in the series, The Vampire Lestat (1985), and Queen of the Damned (1988). The large screen ended up being titled phenomenon that has taking over on HBO, anything vampire connected should lead to profits. The question is whether this indicated material should be touched again? That is for the fans to answer...not this guy.
Anne Rice's 'Vampire Chronicles' Returns, Who is Lestat?!
We've been scrambling all week to verify the following report, especially since it came from a very reliable fountain-head and is insanely logical considering the popularity of vampires these days. I surmise something good has come from the success of Twilight as Bloody Vile has learned exclusively that Universal Pictures is looking to restart Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles, which tells the fiction of the vampire Lestat Du Lioncort (through his narration), a nobleman-turned-vampire in the belatedly 18th century. No word yet on how they plan on unrolling this franchise, but we did find out who they are talking with to put in place of Tom Cruise and Stuart Townsend. Read on for the skinny.
We have confirmed this afternoon that ROBERT DOWNEY JR. is in private talks to play the vampire Lestat in Universal Pictures' The Vampire Chronicles, a newly rebooted franchise based on Anne Rice's well-received novels.
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British actor Stuart Townsend also sank his teeth into the fruit cake in 2002's Queen of the Damned, directed by Michael Rymer. In recent years, Downey has and more »
(if things go well heavy adaptation in some cases), and there's no reason "Queen Of The Damned" has to end things truly for Lestat on the bigscreen.
