They should do the real sequel to "Interview with the Vampire" instead of jumping to the 4th tale, the "Queen of the damned" movie wasn't that terrible but pissed me off with the seudo-origins that were given to Lestat (Marius It's NOT Lestat's creator, and it's a way cooler character than the one portrayed by Vincent Perez!!) in order to please the younger audiences with the Dawnson's Creek version of a great book. I'm not a big fan of Tom Cruise, but his Lestat role totally convinced me, I think it would be great to reprise his role(not that I didn't like Townsend version, but...)and see how he plays the playful,cynic, but NOT murderous vampire that Louis (Brad Pitt) portrayed him to be in the first book.(and hence in the movie). the body thief it's a good book but by all means, not a vampire story, next thing you know, the studios will try Menoch the devil, an even more remotely vampiristic book, since tells the story of the creation of the world, from Satan's point of view. Thiunk of it as a Divine Comedy tribute with Lestat as Dante.

If anyone has any sway with these people, please do not allow Tom Cruise to play Lestat again. Stewart Townsend played a great Lestat, as opposed to Tom Cruise's lame attempt....

Am I looking foward to it? Not really, faggy vampires running around in rented formal wear trying to seduce everyone in sight with cheesy euro-trash accents suck...

Let's forget the poor escuse for an adaptation, Queen of the Damned, last time i heard that movie had Vampire Lestat & Queen of the Damned adapt in a last than a hour movie... ? Aalyah (rip)? what's next, Beyonce, rihanna, vitoria beckam? OST by Korn? i love korn, but come on... it felt like a movie about buffy, for crying out loud, go back to film school, and stop watching mtv. if they are to adapt this book, please choose a decent director, like Frank Darabont, (a guy that knows how adapt) i don't really car for actors, i believe that a director can make that perfect diference, doesn't matter what great or small actor he has do deal. I would love to see tom cruise again, but i really doupt it.

Well, any Lestat book turned into a movie makes me happy, but they really should go back to "The Vampire Lestat" and do it correctly. Tom and Stuart BOTH did good jobs. How about Ian Somerhalder or Wes Bentley or someone unknown?

I guess to do right "Lestat the Vampire" it would have to be a miniseries, it's just too much material for a movie of even 2 hours, I'd like to see that, but seeing the way big studios think, I bet they will do a "Smallville" version of it, you know, teen characters, ridiculous love triangles, wrong time placement, and in Australia, not France because it what the youngsters like now...Don't mind me I'm a bitter old man.

i loved the interview with the vampire.it truly was worthy of anne rices lush novel but the queen of the damned was the biggest piece of shit ive ever seen. the only thing that ever pissed me off more was the descent and carved.i think they should just start where they left off from interview and do the vampire lestat.maybe even start the mayfair witches books so in a few years we can have the blackwood farm and whatnot.

I think they should make 'The Vampire Lestat' first, the true sequel to 'Interview..' Something more in the style of Neil Jordan's film. If Tom Cruise were to decline (which, let's face it, he would) there's always Gaspard (Hannibal Rising) Ulliel. Just my opinion but he'd be amazing as Lestat.

Not a bad idea. But back to making a 2hr.20min. version of "THE VAMPIRE LESTAT". I did an outline for a rather close version, as a "writing exercise", dropping the concert/rock star stuff, since it had already been done and simply featured Akasha in a 10 minute flashback to Egypt. All the plot elements were there and I'm quite proud of it. So it CAN BE DONE as a theatrical film, for about 50 million...If United Artists wants to make money, surely they know a title like "THE VAMPIRE LESTAT" will bring in more people than "TALE OF THE BODY THEIF". Anyway, if "THE VAMPIRE LESTAT" is well-done and faithful, Anne Rice fans will each see it at least three times!

Whoa hold on, in a 2hr and 20? man, that's impressive!, even with the flashback technique, Did you include Magnus, Armand and the vampires theater, Marius, Mael, Nicholas and MOST IMPORTANT, Gabrielle?, (the worst thing somebody could do it's leave Marius or Gabrielle out) I'd guess with the best editing maybe you could top at 3 hours, and still I think that's kinda tough, if that was merely an "writing exercise" you got all the right too be proud of it (i know I couldn't do it). Now the trick would be get the studios do something like that instead of screwing the novels again.

I believe that United Artists should acquire the rights to, not only the tale of the body thief, but also the entire line of vampire chronicles, and the mayfair witches. Begin with The Vampire Lestat, and then remake The Queen of the Damned(a chance to do it right) Then release another one, in chronalogical order, every year until they've all been completed. I've wanted to see that since 1994, and have been seriously disappointed that it hasn't happened to date.