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Downey Jr. to Play the Vampire Lestat!

August 14, 2009

Bloody-Disgusting reports that Universal Pictures is going to reboot Anne Rice's "The Vampire Chronicles" and is in talks with Robert Downey Jr. to play the vampire Lestat Du Lioncort!

Lestat was previously played by Tom Cruise in the 1994 adaptation of Rice's Interview with the Vampire, which co-starred Brad Pitt, Christian Slater and Kirsten Dunst. Stuart Townsend later played Lestat in the 2002 film Queen of the Damned, which co-starred Aaliyah and took elements from the author's "The Vampire Lestat" and "The Queen of the Damned."

The series of novels also includes "The Tale of the Body Thief," "Memnoch the Devil," "The Vampire Armand," "Pandora," "Merrick," "Blood and Gold," "Blackwood Farm" and "Blood Canticle."

Downey Jr. recently wrapped Iron Man 2 and has Sherlock Holmes arriving on Christmas Day.

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COMMENTS (203)

Posted by:

dylansdad

August 15, 2009

I like him, but I won't see this one.

Posted by:

Blud Sucka

August 15, 2009

I'm actually quite excited about this.... Quite!

Posted by:

dakota

August 15, 2009

sweet downey Jr. is a beast will be cool

Posted by:

candace

August 15, 2009

really? why can't they get Stuart Townsend again?

Posted by:

Big Shot

August 15, 2009

This could work, gotta admit I'm a little excited about it.

Posted by:

mystikcelt

August 15, 2009

Wow, that's... wow. Totally unexpected. I wouldn't have imagined him as Lestat, ever. But RDJ is the man of late. I have a feeling he can come out of leftfield and do Lestat proud. But... yeah, wow. I just dunno.

Posted by:

louie

August 15, 2009

ROBERT DOWNEY JR WILL OWN THIS ROLE!

Posted by:

August 15, 2009

To "candace":
Because Stuart Townsend was part of the film that completely and utterly ruined The Vampire Chronicles, which is exactly why the have to re-boot it now. It's like what happened with the Batman series and the Hulk film.

Posted by:

Pro

August 15, 2009

Isn't Lestat 23 years old? how much make-up are they going to use? he is also supposed to be really tall (I guess Tom Cruise wasn't so RDJ can probably pull it off)

Posted by:

Anne Rice Revival

August 15, 2009

Gah! Another friggin reboot! Whatever, I still own the classic film by Neil Jordan, Interview with the Vampire starring Tom Cruise (as Lestat), Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas, and Christian Slater.