Bloody-Disgusting is reporting that the ever-charming ironman himself, Robert Downey Jr., is in “close talks” to play the vampire Lestat in a “resume” of The Vampire Chronicles, a series of novels by author Anne Rice first written in the ’70s. It (mostly) tells the tale of a French nobleman, Lestat de Lioncourt, who gets turned into a vampire in the 18th century.
General Pictures is reportedly slow the new reboot style film dealership of Rice’s novels. The character of Lestat has came along twice in adaptations of the popular novels: in 1994 with audience with the Vampire (also the 1st novel in the series), depicted by Tom Cruise, and again in 2002 with Queen of the Damned, this time acted by Stuart Townsend. There’s no news show on which book by the series this new “franchise” aspirant based on – will it start with audience and, if successful, work its way nonparallel order? Here’s the list of the books (from Wikipedia):
# Interview with the Vampire (1976)
# The Vampire Lestat (1985)
# The Queen of the Damned (1988)
# The Tale of the Body Thief (1992)
# Memnoch the Devil (1995)
# The Vampire Armand (1998)
# Merrick (2000)
# Blood and Gold (2001)
# Blackwood Farm (2002)
# Blood Canticle (2003)
There’s brief surprise that a studio would turn their concern towards another pop vampire series of books with the late and ongoing succeeder of Twilight. As with Twilight, The Vampire accounts has a fanbase to disengagement on, albeit not of rabid teenage girls who’ll buy everything with the franchise name on that. And it also has the current popularity of “hot vampires” to play off of. The potential casting of Downey Jr. doesn’t exactly hurt the studio either – encase you hadn’t noticed he’s both a gifted and a really popular actor at the moment (the latter, I don’t think, coulded said ten years ago).
I wouldn’t have entertained it without accepting heard this possible casting (very redolent of when he was announced as playing ironman), but I think Downey Jr. would play a great vampire horror. Especially one like the character of Lestat, who requires someone charismatic and a particular and precise delivery – Downey Jr. fits that perfectly, I think you will agree.
Screen Rant will keep you up-to-date on whether or not Downey Jr. is cast in the role of Lestat. For now, what do you concoct this news? Are you up for another adaptation of The Vampire Chronicles?
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