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Rice Pursuing New Tales of the Vampire Film?

Source:ShockTillYouDrop.com
August 1, 2008


If you thought Queen of the Damned was the final nail in the coffin when it came to Anne Rice-inspired bloodsucker flicks, think again. An insider tells ShockTillYouDrop.com that Rice is actively pushing to get her novel Pandora onto the screen.

Published in '98, the novel was the first in Rice's proposed "New Tales of the Vampire" series which continued with Vittorio the following year. Here's a synopsis for Pandora provided by AnneRice.com.

Fledgling vampire David Talbot has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead. The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded cafe, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life.

Pandora begins, reluctantly at first and then with increasing passion, to recount her mesmerizing tale, which takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome to eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Paris and New Orleans. She carries us back to her mortal girlhood in the world of Caesar Augustus, a world chronicled by Ovid and Petronius. This is where Pandora meets and falls in love with the handsome, charismatic, lighthearted, still-mortal Marius. This is the Rome she is forced to flee in fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take over the city. And we follow her to the exotic port of Antioch, where she is destined to be reunited with Marius, now immortal and haunted by his vampire nature, who will bestow on her the Dark Gift as they set out on the fraught and fantastic adventure of their two turbulent centuries together.


Shock hopes to receive a confirmation or otherwise about this news soon.

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Posted by: Marand East on August 1, 2008 at 04:38:08

I pray that this gets made. It was a good book. I might pick it up again.


Posted by: Snooby on August 1, 2008 at 08:16:24

Vittorio is a better book for a movie. Simply for the stand alone story and characters.


Posted by: Sara on August 1, 2008 at 10:49:05

They better have good actors this time. The QOTD cast had no idea what to do, and the script then was horrible. I'd love to see and actual blond Marius, and for the personalities to be right. I hope this does get made.


Posted by: SEVERE3K on August 1, 2008 at 11:05:47

yeah...its bout time for another GOOD vampire movie..


Posted by: joe asylo on August 1, 2008 at 15:36:15

well i have to go against that.
Pandora is better story than that.


Posted by: Smiles on August 1, 2008 at 17:36:16

I loved interview with a vampire and was thinking to myself boy it would be nice if they would turn another one of her books into a movie. I think tale of the body theif would make a better movie but will take anything as long as it has good actors and script. Crossing fingers that something happens with this!


Posted by: Marand East on August 1, 2008 at 18:00:58

I liked the cast of QOTD and I saw where they were going, but dropped the ball. All in all, it's still a good movie.


Posted by: Ryan on August 1, 2008 at 23:38:27

This is great news, I hope it gets picked up and they keep it to the same tone as interview. Queen of the damned was horrible, and I would love to love it, but all the actors were wrong and the storyline just seemed aimed at teens.
I would lo9ve to see all of Anne Rice's books into film, she is brilliant


Posted by: Felix on August 2, 2008 at 00:18:21

Wouldn't it be great is Lestat did a cameo? ...and it was was Tom Cruise? He was the best Lestat.


Posted by: Tomocracy on August 2, 2008 at 23:10:52

Huh, what?! Oh, sorry, I fell asleep reading the synopsis...


Posted by: Daae on August 2, 2008 at 23:53:01

I'd still REALLY like to see 'The Vampire Lestat' as a movie made with the same or more passion as 'Interview..'


Posted by: celticogam on August 3, 2008 at 20:01:14

I've never read an Ann Rice Novel! But, I enjoyed Interview, It was A Great Movie. I Hope They Make this in a Similar niche. QOTD Really sucked! Townsend Just Bore's the hell outta me! So, Just based on the Review above, I,d Like to see this as a movie..:)


Posted by: acslaterson on August 3, 2008 at 20:22:14

I watched an interview where Ann Rice said she would never touch her vampire world again after recently finding Jesus again, looks like she wants to make money on her past sins. I would prefer a Mayfair Witches movie, but this will do.


Posted by: Psykoelf on August 3, 2008 at 23:54:21

Whilst Pandora would make an interesting movie (due to her vampiric past life recollections), I have to agree with some that it may be better to remake The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned as they were supposed to be - TWO stories! - even better with the original IwtV cast. At the least if they do that, the abomination that was QotD can be filed away in the 'do not recall' memory banks.


Posted by: carmilla on August 14, 2008 at 09:05:37

i am very excited and terrified of this. i pray she saw the disaster they refer to as QotD and this time stays involved with the movie. I read below someone would rather it be a Mayfair movie. Rumor had (has) it they were (are?) gonnna make a mini series but last i heard which ever tv channel was involved or the director (one or the other, i can't recall) canceled. i think that was on her web site.


Posted by: Melissa on October 28, 2008 at 08:35:12

I'd like to see Lestat made into a movie. I never saw QOTD, but heard it was rolled into that movie and it sucked.

Lestat needs his own movie.
Sting would make an awesome Lestat!


Posted by: Juliana on October 28, 2008 at 10:32:15

what? are you sure? I dont believe it. I mean, Anne Rice only writes about Jesus now, and she doesnt even wanna talk about vampires anymore...


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