Starring Brad Pitt as the sullen Louis de Pointe du Lac, Tom Cruise as unrepentant killer Lestat de Lioncourt, and directed by Neil Jordan, the film would go on to become a massive hit, garnering several Academy Award nominations (Best Art Direction and Original Score) and a Golden Globe Award for then twelve-year-old Kirsten Dunst for Best Supporting Actress. An 8-episode television adaptation, Interview with the Vampire, premiered on AMC on October 2, 2022, starring Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson.While Anne Rice’s 1976 gothic novel, Interview with the Vampire, immediately made a deep and permanent impact on the horror landscape-her 1980s follow ups, The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned, reached increasingly larger audiences, with the latter debuting on the New York Times Bestseller List-the success of the 1994 film of the same name pushed her Vampire Chronicles (the collective series’ name) into the stratosphere. The Queen of the Damned (1988) was adapted into a 2002 film of the same name, starring Stuart Townsend and Aaliyah and using some material from 1985's The Vampire Lestat. The first novel in the series, Interview with the Vampire (1976), was made into a 1994 film starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater and Kirsten Dunst. As of November 2008, The Vampire Chronicles had sold 80 million copies worldwide.
The homoerotic overtones of The Vampire Chronicles are also well documented. Rice said in a 2008 interview that her vampires were a "metaphor for lost souls". Includes dates of vampiric embrace and, if applicable, dates of eternal death. Some characters from Rice's Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy cross over to The Vampire Chronicles, specifically in Merrick (2000), Blackwood Farm (2002), and Blood Canticle (2003).Ī complete, visual genealogical record of all vampire characters found in Anne Rice's series: The Vampire Chronicles and The Lives of the Mayfair Witches. The series primarily follows the antihero Lestat de Lioncourt, a French nobleman turned into a vampire in the 18th century, and by extension the many humans and vampires whose lives he has touched in his own long existence. The following is a list of characters from Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles, which began with the 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire.
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