When the film adaptation of Interview with the Vampire came out in 1994, it survived months of scrutiny from both the fans and the press. Probably more than almost any movie of the same era. It went on to receive solid reviews, and raves for Kirsten Dunst’s performance as the child vampire Claudia. Warner Bros. tried to get a sequel in development right away, based on Anne Rice’s first sequel, The Vampire Lestat. But Tom Cruise passed on returning to the role. But before he did that, Interview director Neil Jordan took a pass at a script for The Vampire Lestat. And he’s finally revealed to Nerdist what that script would have covered:
I was never in love with the idea of Lestat as a kind of David Lee Roth figure. So, no rock star persona, I was never in love with the image of him as a rock star. But when they asked me to write a script for The Vampire Lestat, I did go back. I really got fascinated with the whole thing, with Anne’s epic about how Lestat was turned into a vampire when working at the Commedia dell’arte in Paris, then taken by this strange man, and running from wolves. The script was mainly about Lestat’s 18th-century France experience. With some flash-forwards to Daniel Malloy being driven from New Orleans down to Los Angeles and stuff like that.
This is the most anyone has learned about what the follow-up to Interview with the Vampire would have looked like. It’s probably shocking to many, especially after The Queen of the Damned movie and AMC’s The Vampire Lestat leaned into musician persona. However, Lestat’s MTV era really only covered about the first 20 pages of the novel, and perhaps the last 20. The majority of Rice’s book is Lestat recounting his life in 18th-century France, his vampiric transformation, and learning undead history. Which is what it seems Jordan’s movie would have maintained as the narrative.
Interestingly, it also seems like Jordan’s proposed film would have had some kind of undead road trip framing device. As fans might recall, Interview with the Vampire ends with Tom Cruise’s Lestat, somehow returned to his old self, popping up in the backseat of Daniel Molloy’s (Christian Slater) convertible. He bites him, and the dialogue suggests he’s going to grant his wish and make him a vampire. The two drive off on the Golden Gate Bridge, and we have no idea what happens next. The 2002 Queen of the Damned movie is not in continuity with Jordan’s film. And this event does not happen in the book at all.
Nerdist’s Take: Neil Jordan’s The Vampire Lestat Is the Undead Road Trip Film We’re Dying to See
While the ship has long since sailed on a direct sequel to Neil Jordan’s Interview with the Vampire with that same cast, it would be fascinating if someday someone picks up that storyline and continuity, only with different actors. The Vampire Lestat disclosing his life story to a captive Daniel Molloy on a cross-country road trip? We’d love to see it. Eventually, someone else will pick up the baton of this universe once AMC is done with it. It would be fascinating to see a legacy sequel so many years after the original left us with that cliffhanger ending.
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This articles is written by : Nermeen Nabil Khear Abdelmalak
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