Anne Rice Comments on Robert Downey Jr as Vampire Lestat

Once again screw this hypocrite, trying to make more money off of her "devilish work". If I see this it will purely be for the casting of RDJ. I haven't read one of this women's works since she went back to Catholicism.

WoW too old for the part. well considering now Lestate has been portrayed by two other actors, who are completely different ages I say who gives a f*ck. Its another vampire movie. yeah Cruise did a good job in the 1st one. Townsend did a ok job, but the that might be because the second movie was in no way shape or form as good as the 1st. Interview had a great cast, Pitt, Banderas, and dunst when she was unable to be annoying. So even though RDJ is in this, its has to have a good supporting cast, or it will bomb.

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'A twenty year old man in the 18th century is the equivalent of an older man today.' - she's right there.

Besides... all the top $ Actor's in Hollyweird are in their 40's anyway.

there is so much news about things I could give less a f*ck about, but when something comes up about a movie I like, it's rare. A movie I hate? frequent!

As others have said before..this is just stupid. They chopped up her 2nd and 3rd books and made Queen of the Damned, which in no way shape or form related to her books. Marius made Lestat huh? What ever happened to Magnus? Lol.

I hope the rumor is true too, RDJr would make a great Lestat.

Well there ya go, sign him up! She seems to want it and he'd be awesome for it so yeah... sign him up!

i'll watch this just because of RDJ - he is an incredible actor!

Robert Downey Jr is great and a new quality vampire movie is needed.

She just didn't want to eat her words again, like last time when she talked trash against Tom Cruise. I'm sorry..but "Age shouldn't be an issue here" Yes it should. When I think of an actor to portray Lestat, RDJ does NOT come to mind. Just my .02

i kinda preferd Townsends depiction of Lastat...i mean Cruse sucks more balls then Lohan....i liked the new face...but thats just me

@Firemanphil: I'm with you. RDJ is my boy and all but I don't picture him in this role either, but if Anne Rice is cool with it so am I. Its her creation, she should know best.

"a new quality vampire movie is needed."

Oh yes, for sure. A new vampire film and a new zombie flick. The world can ALWAYS use more of those.

The world needs another vamp flick like Lohan needs another genital wart.

Vampire movies, zombie movies, war movies, kung fu movies, super hero movies, alien movies, cops and robbers movies...etc, etc, etc. What are we talking about? Genre films. They get made every year. There has been no sudden influx of them, just special attention paid to certain categories of genre films, ie. Vampire films--thank you Twilight, you unforgivable c*nt. Point being, genre films will always poor in, the good ones, however, are rare. I would hope that this might be one of the good ones.

"Vampire movies, zombie movies, war movies, kung fu movies, super hero movies, alien movies, cops and robbers movies...etc, etc, etc. "

Yeah, but vampires are more of a subject genre, whereas all the rest are more topical. In other words, with a war movie, you have vast historical periods to work with and innumerable characters to puppet about.

Vampire films are FAR more narrow. Guy has sharp teeth and likes blood. He sucks some person's neck. He gets killed. He blows Dracula. He sparkles. whatever.

Yeah, some 'suck' like Twilight and some do not, like Blade. The issue isn't whether there's a variety of quality ranging from the low end to the high end, the question, to me anyway, is why bother CONSTANTLY pumping out new vamp films when even the ORIGINAL source material is shallow and repetitive, and thus the resulting modern films are little more than derivative drivel of those very lackluster media.

I mean, good takes happne, but utsually NOT by expanding the scarce vampire mythology, which in itself is highly repetitive, but by adding more than vampie leads, action scenes and such. There's just so little to work with really, and once you've seen a good vamp flick, you've seen them all.

Vampire films have about as many ingredients as lemonade. Water, sugar and lemon. The bitter, the sweet and the tasteless. And that's the sum of the vampire genre. f*ck Vampires. Do a good Lovecraft film for once.

f*ck.

"I mean, good vamp tales happen, but usually NOT by expanding the scarce vampire mythology, which in itself is highly repetitive, but by adding more-than-vampire leads, action scenes and such."

Wow is she so hard up on cash or something? I mean come Anne I love your work but it's Tom or nothing.

i think its a bad idea for him to play le stat stuart townsend plays a sinster le stat not only that he's sexy.i have ann rice's vampire chronicle books great books!!!!!!! PLEASE IF YOU PLAN ON RE MAKING A MOVIE ABOUT LE STAT STUART TOWNSEND IS LE STAT COME OUT COME OUT WHERE EVER YOU ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT DOES EVERYONE THINK DOWNY JR.OR TOWNSEND I JUST DONT SEE HIM MAKING A GREAT VAMPIRE BUT WHO KNOWS.VAMPIRES ARE HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If a sizzling hot vampire who can mesmerize & seduce both sexes, who looks the part & can perform like a rock star is what the movie studio wants then there is only one choice. Check out Adam Lambert's official music video version of FYE and see if you don't see what I see.