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 Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:26 am
I just thought this would be a neat little thing to discuss:
If you were given the power, resources, time, money, all that jazz, to recreate any of the VCs into a movie (whether it's been done before or not), how would you go about doing it? Who would you cast, what kind of effects would you use, how would you compress the story into two to three hours, and all that?
I'd love to make a movie of The Vamire Lestat. It'd be so much fun for me, though I don't know who I'd cast in it. And unlike the god-awful QotDmovie, I'd actually try to keep it more or less consistent with the book.
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 3:33 am
well in any movie I would cast the actor that played Armand in the play, I cannot remember his name sweatdrop
but he is just brilliant
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 8:25 am
Hmm....I kinda want to make Tale of the Body Thief into a movie. It'd have one of the most interesting plots. I'd like to do Memnoch the Devil too but there'd be A LOT of special effects and green screen, CGI work to be done for that movie.
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 9:09 pm
I would want to do Armand, and the casting would be semi-hard, because of the age... It would have to have a high rating because of sexual content and violence...but it's my favorite, next to IwtV, and they didn't do TOO horribly on that one.
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:56 am
Alesse chan well in any movie I would cast the actor that played Armand in the play, I cannot remember his name sweatdrop but he is just brilliant Drew Sarich
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:11 am
I would do Blood and gold, although I think I would have a hard time casting for Marius. I would probably be too picky since he is my favorite character. If he was young enough I would love to have Ian McKellan play Marius, but sadly he is bit old for it. I suppose you could always use make-up to make him look a bit younger. Not much I mean Marius wasn't young when he was made. I just think Ian has pulled off characters with some of the traits that Marius has.
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:03 pm
I think to do any of the books would be a challenge. To appeal to Anne Rice fans you would probablly do better casting complete unknowns and sticking to the books. But for commerical appeal you would have to cast already established actors,and do some picking and choosing. Mainstream usa would have a fit with several of the books if they were produced as is.
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 3:12 pm
Personally, I would love to produce one of the books as is, especially if it would piss of mainstream peoples. Really, movies based on books should be made for fans of the books, and people who don't like it should shut up because it's not targeted at them.
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:39 am
I would remake the queen of the damned and i would probgably cast a person that can actually sing the music as lestat. I would also stick more to the book and make it a little more dark.
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:53 am
I don't think there will ever be a successful movie adaptation to Rice's books...successful in the sense that it will appease the fans.
To make the Vampire Chronicles a success (to the fans) the following would have to be done:
1) It wouldn't be one movie...or even one per book. It would have to be turned into a mini series of sorts to even get close to putting in everything from the books.
2) THE ACTORS WOULD HAVE TO STAY ON FOR THE ENTIRE PROJECT because nothing is more annoying than seeing three different actors play the same character.
3) It would have to be a straight to video release to be seen in its entirety because no theater is going to let one section of a story block a screening for 4+ hours. The revenue just wouldn't be enough
4) The script would have to be taken directly from the book.
5) The Mayfair books would have to be made into film projects as well since certain books tie them both together
6)a FITTING soundtrack would have to be supplied. None of this Korn and mainstream "hard" rock bullshit. It cheapens the feel of the movie and does NOTHING for atmostphere
If I were going to take on the project my first decsision would be to ANIMATE the entire project. That way I wouldn't have to deal with Actor's limitations, physical differences, and Actor's time constraints. The project would be a series, not a movie (so as to include as much as possible of the actual books). The soundtrack would be more ochestral...none of that vapid QotD crap and none of that bad Jpop anime style music either. The art style would have to be WAY less cartoony and more stylized. This show wouldn't be for the kiddies after all.
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:10 pm
it would be so difficult to make them into a decent movie. 'Interview with the Vampire' wasn't as Horrible as 'Queen of the Damned' where they tried to crunch two books together. added a love story that wasn't there and took out characters...
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:20 pm
I'd Redo Queen of The Damned. Lestat would be blond and the Story of the Twin would be included and explained. My version would follow very closely to the book.
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Claudia the Vampire Child
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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:52 pm
You know, the fact that Interview (the movie) wasn't so bad (actually not bad at all) only makes me more angry about QoTD being so damned horrid. It takes just as much effort to ruin a project as it does to make it a good one. They should have concentrated more on the actual story and far less on the soundtrack and theater appeal. D:
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