![]() ![]() Marius is described in the book as being a tall Roman, with long blond hair. I actually think Stuart Townstead behaved more like Lestat when he was depicting Dorian Grey in The League of Extraordinary Gentleman. So instead of our blond haired, blue eyed Frenchman, we get He turned down the role, which was instead given to Stuart Townsend. Tom Cruise in Interview with the Vampire was a pretty accurate depiction of Lestat de Lioncourt. To name a few Louis de Pointe du Lac (remember him from the first film?), Nicolas de Lenfent (a personal favourite of mine), Gabrielle (Lestats mother), Baby Jenks and the Fang Gang, Daniel, Mekare, etc. Queen of the Damned has very similar issues, there are also a number of key characters who were just ignored. ![]() ![]() In my blog about Interview with the Vampire, I pointed out that one of the most drastic changes of the film were the difference in character designs. The studio was already into its last year of owning the rights before they would have transferred back Anne Rice, so in a frantic rush the remaining two books were squished into one movie which just barely resembled its source material. ![]() had ten years to make films out of the first three Vampire Chronicle novels Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned. As bad an adaption as Interview with the Vampire is, it is a fact, universally acknowledged, that Queen of the Damned is so much worse. ![]()
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