- TALE OF THE BODY THIEF
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| Thee Greatest Vampire Story |
Remember when
Tom Cruise played the vampire Lestat? Well, Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's
Imagine Entertainment has just optioned Lestat creator Anne Rice's Tale of the
Body Thief, the fourth installment in the author's best-selling book series The
Vampire Chronicles.
The Lestat
character was first depicted in Warner Bros.' 1994 film Interview with a
Vampire, starring the aforementioned Cruise, Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst. In
2002, the studio adapted Queen of the Damned, Rice's third book in the series.
And now The Hollywood Reporter claims that Star Trek and Transformers writers
Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci will be producing Body Thief.
The story
follows Lestat who, having grown tired of his life as a vampire, agrees to
switch bodies with a human psychic for a day. Soon he discovers that the
psychic has no intention of switching back. With the help of some friends,
Lestat must cope with being human as he tracks down the man to get his body
back.
The project
is currently in development and has not yet been pinned to a studio. Lee
Patterson is currently working on the screenplay.
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