oh no no no..worst Lestat news ever...

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/1/20090816/ten-downey-jr-to-vamp-it-up-as-...

Robert Downey Jr. is in talks to become the movie world's latest vampire sensation.

The Iron Man star is in negotiations to play Anne Rice's Lestat Du Lioncort in the latest movie adaptation of her The Vampire Chronicles, according to BloodyDisgusting.com.

Tom Cruise and Stuart Townsend have both played the part in Interview With The Vampire and Queen of The Damned, respectively.

Lestat de Lioncourt is a fictitious French nobleman who becomes a vampire in the 18th century.

this site has more info-
http://screenrant.com/robert-downey-jr-lestat-the-vampire-chronicle...

Bloody-Disgusting is reporting that the ever-charming Iron Man himself, Robert Downey Jr., is in “close talks” to play the vampire Lestat in a “restart” 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.

Universal Pictures is reportedly behind the new reboot style film franchise of Rice’s novels. The character of Lestat has appeared twice in adaptations of the popular novels: in 1994 with Interview with the Vampire (also the first novel in the series), portrayed by Tom Cruise, and again in 2002 with Queen of the Damned, this time played by Stuart Townsend. There’s no news on which book from the series this new “franchise” would be based on - will it start with Interview and, if successful, work its way in series 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 little surprise that a studio would turn their interest towards another popular vampire series of books with the recent and ongoing success of Twilight. As with Twilight, The Vampire Chronicles has a fanbase to fall back on, albeit not of rabid teenage girls who’ll buy everything with the franchise name on it. 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 - in case you hadn’t noticed he’s both a talented and a very popular actor at the moment (the latter, I don’t think, could have been said 10 years ago).

I wouldn’t have thought of it without having heard this possible casting (very reminiscent of when he was announced as playing Iron Man), but I think Downey Jr. would play a great vampire. Especially one like the character of Lestat, who requires someone charismatic and a particular and precise manner of speaking - Downey Jr. fits that perfectly, I think you’ll 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 think of this news? Are you up for another adaptation of The Vampire Chronicles?

now, he was great in iron man and tropic thunder but i just don't see this working. and i pray to the gods this is not happening in the rumored pandora movie. my heart is truely breaking at this news...anyone want to hold prayer/voodoo rituals or human sacrficies to prevent of influence this? with harm to none of coarse : * (

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Permalink Reply by Dryl on August 17, 2009 at 10:52am: I've always been a bit more a Poppy Z Brite girl, but it does seem odd that this role is so consistently miscast (imho of course)

as a youngster reading them, it always seemed clear to me that Lestat was surely Sting, non?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Carmilla DeLioncourt on August 17, 2009 at 2:10pm: idk, i thought tom cruise visually fit the role more than the other 2 and to me this news is just terrible. i never read her but i know of her.

Dryl Morgwain said:
I've always been a bit more a Poppy Z Brite girl, but it does seem odd that this role is so consistently miscast (imho of course)

as a youngster reading them, it always seemed clear to me that Lestat was surely Sting, non?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dryl on August 23, 2009 at 10:47pm: oh Poppy Z Brite writes with a terribly tawdry perfection and seems to delight to leave little strings of darkness with cruelly narrowed eyes and wicked grins in my tummy for just days and days =)

Carmilla DeLioncourt said:
idk, i thought tom cruise visually fit the role more than the other 2 and to me this news is just terrible. i never read her but i know of her.

Dryl Morgwain said:
I've always been a bit more a Poppy Z Brite girl, but it does seem odd that this role is so consistently miscast (imho of course)

as a youngster reading them, it always seemed clear to me that Lestat was surely Sting, non?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Emerian Rich on August 24, 2009 at 10:26pm: -.- omg... I am so not reading this right now. I must be dreaming.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Carmilla DeLioncourt on August 25, 2009 at 5:43am: it's fake, i got some updatesin mail and it was just a rumor.

Emerian Rich said:
-.- omg... I am so not reading this right now. I must be dreaming.; ▶ Reply to This