Random QotD Interview

This is from one of the many links I'd posted ages ago. So to keep it I'll post it here.

from Latino Review

Excerpts from the Interview with Director Michael Rymer Producer Jorge Saralegui, Stuart Townsend, Marguerite Moreau and Aaliyah's Brother Rashad Haughton.
by Monica Partridge

Enthusiasm was high at the press junket for the latest installment of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles film, Queen of the Damned. Needless to say, irrespective of the enthusiasm generated by the director, producer, and stars, Aaliyah's presence was sorely missed throughout the afternoon.

Queen of the Damned got off the ground in 1998, when Michael Rymer was attached to direct and Jorge Saralegui was later brought on to produce.

In regard to why it took so long to develop a sequel to Interview with the Vampire, Saralegui says the novel was "really hard to adapt." Interview was successful enough that the studio wanted a sequel, but it took a while for the project to come together. "Neil Jordan worked on a version of the Vampire Lestat, and it just died. And that was it. It was on the shelf."
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Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

I just watched last night, for the first time in ages, Dracula. I'd forgotten what a lovely movie it is! Its so totally brain candy for those types who love Dracula films. (Not that I've seen many others) Gary was unbelievable awesome as Dracula, he made you feel sorry for him although he was an evil bastard (at least in part). I do wish though that they had cast someone else as Jonathan, Keanu, was slightly embarrassing in the part

I particularly love the Lucy storyline, how each of her suitors truly did love Lucy in their own ways, and each was willing to give up his life for her and were more than willing to see her murderer destroyed, as to save poor Mina from sharing poor Lucy's fate. I recently ordered a new copy of Dracula (seeing as I lost my old one with Winona and Gary on the cover ages ago). I was supposed to have received in the mail by now but the USPS can be pain in the ass sometime. If it has not come by Monday I will e-mail Amazon about it. I will be a very very very pissed-off lady if it doesn't arrive then.

The version I ordered is similar in cover design to "The Historian" which I am slowly making my way though it. This version includes a forward by Elizabeth Kostova. I can't wait to get my hands on it and read it cover to cover, it's been way too long since I last read it. (about 10-14 years ago)

Yes I'm reading about 2 or 3 other books as well at the moment but I think I can squeeze this little treasure in.

The Un-Dead: The sequel to "Bram Stoker's Dracula"

I didn't expect to be update mere moments after my last post but I just found this from ShowBizWeekly.com


Dracula’s Moment in the Sun

The original bloodsucker walks the earth again in screenwriter Ian Holt’s official sequel to Bram Stoker’s "Dracula," tentatively titled "The Un-Dead." With the Stoker family giving the stamp of approval to the script, the native New Yorker, a relative Drac-o-phile himself, has launched his project into pre-production, scouting locations in Transylvania and hunting for directors and, of course, an actor to play the blood-thirsty Count himself. The story picks up 25 years after the events of Stoker’s novel with several original surviving characters returning together to face Dracula again. Holt, an NYU Tisch School alumnus and former Stella Adler student, has researched this topic long and hard, consulting vampire scholars and attending the very first World Dracula Conference in 1995 in Bucharest, the real-life location of Count Dracula’s chilling (and probably haunted) castle. An editor and writer by trade, Holt has written close to a dozen screenplays and contributed to television shows like "Yo! MTV Raps." The production company AEI ("Ripley’s Believe It Or Not") is backing "The Un-Dead" and hopes for production to begin soon. For more info, visit: www.aeionline.com.

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