Spinning is so much cooler than not spinning.

Great news for all you QotD fans/BluRay owners out there! Queen of the Damned is coming to BluRay on Sept. 18, 2012!

My widely held and secret (only until now) belief is that Anne Rice secretly hates the IWTV movie adaptation and Loves the QotD movie adaptation (or perhaps loves them both)


My reasoning is that Anne was at first so strongly against TC being Lestat in the first place and TC was a very popular actor at the time and so therefore after she seen the movie she got to thinking "This'll make me big bucks even if it does suck!" *So, she says she loves it.


And then years later some period of time before QotD is released we hear from Anne yet again on her site praising the new movie (I remember this clearly despite I can't recall the words of it). It wasn't until it was after it was released that she say that lot of fans didn't like it for one reason or another. It was only then she decided that she would say that she didn't like the movie at all. Now sometime after the release her official site was given a makeover (ewww remember that horrid purple travesty? Now it's horrible brown-sh orange travesty) and the mention that she once liked the film mysteriously vanished, making it seem as if she never like it is the first place, which is not true. I guess Anne or her webmaster never counted on mentions of, on various sites that she once states and I indeedy-do quote

An announcement from Jorge Saralegui, the producer:
Michael Rymer flew to New Orleans and showed Anne Rice the movie. This is her official statement:

"QUEEN OF THE DAMNED is an energetic and innovative rendition of the Vampire Chronicles, featuring fine performances, and a magnificent look. Well directed, elegant and intriguing, the film is surely destined to take its place among notable modern interpretations of vampire mythology."

I don't recall if this was the exact quote that was on her official site but you will find this all over the internet (and couple of places on this journal) if you know where to look.



And all in all these are just theories, not facts, but if I had to put money on it, I'd bet that Anne Rice secretly liked/loved the QotD movie but doesn't want it advertised and it might decrease any or all booksales from her current or future works (and possibly the theorized Tale of the Body Thief movie that might be planned).



ETA: Do I believe that t would have made a better film if the majority of the deleted scenes were left in the movie? Yes. I even think it would've helped the audience to understand everything and everybody and their motivations more had they been left in (especially the movies Lestat/Jesse love story both the extended scene in Lestat's Hollywood mansion with Jesse and extended flight sequence)

Casting Choices
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On occasion I like to check out the official QotD movie site to sort of relive the thrill of anticipation of the QotD movie. But when I looked it up a few days ago. It was gone. the only thing there really was a place where you could buy the DVD (for $5!). Alas for BluRay fans out there there's still no version in that format.


I've still a bit stunned. I've saved the pics from there (most if not all) and the F.A.Q. but it still guts me a little that it's now officially gone.


I love the screensaver that was available on the site. I still have it. In the past if I had to get a new computer one of the very first thing I did was make sure that that screensaver was on it. So now I'm going to relish it all that I can now and hope I won't need a computer for at least a few more years.


Note to self. Buy a couple of USB's I want to save all the QotD and/or Stuart pics as I can It would be a PAIN to find them all again.

I don't think I've ever posted this here before I'm almost sure I have, but I can't find it so here it is!

Stuart Townsend rocks Lestat in Michael Rymer's Queen of the Damned
By Patrick Lee and Cindy White

In Queen of the Damned, director Michael Rymer's upcoming movie based on two of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles novels, Irish-born actor Stuart Townsend takes a bite out of a role originated by Tom Cruise in the first Rice adaptation, 1994's Interview with the Vampire. Townsend plays Rice's most famous creation: Lestat de Lioncourt, an 18th-century French nobleman inducted against his will into the brotherhood of vampires.

Townsend appears opposite the late Aaliyah, the 22-year-old pop star and actress who died tragically in a plane crash last summer, and Marguerite Moreau, who will soon star in the SCI FI Channel's upcoming miniseries Firestarter: Rekindled.

Australian-born director Rymer faced the challenge of not only following up the previous movie, but also compressing the events in Rice's The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned into a single film. Townsend, Rymer and producer Jorge Saralegui took a moment recently to speak with Science Fiction Weekly about Queen of the Damned, which opens Feb. 22.

( Stuart's Interview )
( The Michael Rymer & Jorge Saralegui interview )