As linked to in two posts below this here are somethings I thought interesting regarding questions that commonly asked in regard to the "Queen of the Damned" movie.
Quotes from Jorge Saralegui about the QotD film as posted on the official message board before it got shut down. Fair warning right now this is less than half of the stuff that was posted there and its still
looong.
LEAVING OUT KEY VAMPIRES SUCH AS LOUIS ETC.(Answering why no Mekare, and no story of the twins) Because she has no dialogue? Sorry, just kidding. The Story of the Twins is a movie in its own right; if we told that story, we wouldn't have room for Lestat's. We felt that focusing the movie on Lestat was the more pragmatic way to go. With less than two hours to work with, this meant no Story of the Twins. We kept Maharet, but only in how she connects to our main story. This is one of those changes that was all but dictated by the constraints of our situation, but that I realize is painful to all lovers of the book. You have our sincere apologies for not being able to give you everything that you wanted.
Answering as best I can, and please note, repeating myself, as some of these questions have been answered elsewhere: Louis is not in the movie, because his role in the novel QUEEN is relatively insignificant, and we could only include so many characters. I'm not sure what you mean by "stand alone." The liberties we took in the making of this film were a combination of necessity - a feature film is only so long - and creative license, which in my opinion is the right of anyone engaged in any creative activity. Lestat looks "gothie" because, as you may recall from the novels, his music was "Goth." I can't imagine how one could compare... let alone duplicate... the mood of a novel with the mood of a movie. The story of the Twins has very little to do with Lestat, who is the protagonist of our movie; the Twins' story is a movie in its own right - and this isn't it. The public was considered unwilling to watch a 12-hour movie, which is what I estimate would be required to do full justice to Anne Rice's novels. As to characters living or dying in a way that varies from the novel, refer to the end of my third sentence.
All of the characters you mentioned (Louis, Daniel, Gabrielle, Mekare, Eric) are not in the story, for the reason that you both mentioned: there isn't enough room for all of the vampires, and their roles seemed less crucial to the telling of our story. If you're seeking a connection to INTERVIEW, then you ought to find it in Lestat.
(Gabrielle) She's a very interesting character, but not essential to the novel, and irrelevant to the parts of the novel that we focused on.
Louis and Daniel aren't in the movie because, as you seemingly realize, they don't have a meaningful role in the story. Armand is in the movie, but only briefly. And I can't talk about Jesse's fate without giving away too much; suffice it to say that, given the nature of our story, our ending makes more sense.
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