Heading into the weekend Bloody Disgusting hit you with the monster news that Robert Downey Jr. was in talks to play Lestat Du Lioncort in Universal’s reboot of Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles. Before we dive into official word from Rice, we learned over the weekend exclusively that the plan is to first adapt The Vampire Lestat, the second novel in the adult vampire franchise. Now, beyond the break you can read what Rice had to say about our breaking news.

After reading our news here on Bloody Disgusting, website BSC got in touch with author Anne Rice who talked a bit about the possibility of Downey Jr. in the role and addresses those complaining that Downey Jr. is too old (’cause he’s not).

“I’m delighted to comment. First off, I cannot confirm or deny the rumor. I have not received official word as to the truth of it yet,” she tells the site, although Bloody Disgusting can in fact confirm the validity of our story.

“But I can say without hesitation that I love Robert Downey Jr. and I think he would make a fabulous Vampire Lestat. He is a major actor, a powerhouse of talent and personality, and he evinces an irrepressible and seductive charm. He would bring great energy and skill to the role. I would love to see this happen. I’ve loved Robert Downey Jr. ever since I saw him in Restoration years ago, and I thought he was magical and powerful in Iron Man.—So I hope the rumors are true.—I’ve posted on my Facebook “fan” page saying pretty much the same thing.

“Some are saying he is too old to play the part,” she continues. “This is absolutely not true. He is quite youthful. Besides, Lestat is a man when he is made into a vampire. A twenty year old man in the 18^th century is the equivalent of an older man today. Age just shouldn’t be an issue here, not with an actor of this scope and charisma.—I’m thrilled at the prospect that this rumor might be true.

The original from BSC also has this statement from Mrs. Rice about why none of her other books were made into movies since Queen of the Damned:

The rights were controlled by one studio for a very long time; and though there was constant interest, that one studio controlled whether or not something got made. The rights are no longer with that studio. And my agents are working diligently on the new possibilities. —– I have often wondered why so few movies have been made from my work. I think the problem lies in the fact that I wrote rather long series of books. If a studio buys one of a series, that studio wants to tie up the whole series. It is a built in problem. — I can’t complain. Had there been more movies, maybe I wouldn’t have written so many books. And I loved writing the books. I hope now that the series can really take off, with one high quality film after another.

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So without further ado: Twenty-Ninth Night: Quickening, Thirtieth Night: For Whom the Blood Flows, Thirty-First Night: The Path to the Answer, Thirty-Second Night: The Make-Believe Sandbox, Thirty-Third Night: A Pureblood’s Lover, Thirty-Fourth Night: Bloody World, Thirty-Fifth Night: Yuki, Thirty-Sixth Night: The Unwanted, Thirty-Seventh Night: Like a Sin.
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We’ve been scrambling all week to confirm the following report, especially since it came from a very reliable source and is insanely logical considering the popularity of vampires these days. I guess something good has come from the success of Twilight as Bloody Disgusting has learned exclusively that Universal Pictures is looking to restart Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles, which tells the tale of the vampire Lestat Du Lioncort (through his narration), a nobleman-turned-vampire in the late 18^th century. No word yet on how they plan on unrolling this franchise, but we did find out who they are talking with to replace Tom Cruise and Stuart Townsend. Read on for the skinny.

We have confirmed this afternoon that ROBERT DOWNEY JR. is in close talks to play the vampire Lestat in Universal Pictures’ The Vampire Chronicles, a newly rebooted franchise based on Anne Rice’s popular novels.

Lestat appears as a major character in both motion picture adaptations of The Vampire Chronicles novels. In Neil Jordan’s 1994 film adaptation of Interview with the Vampire, he is portrayed by Tom Cruise. In the 2002 film adaptation of Queen of the Damned, he is played by Stuart Townsend.

The Vampire Chronicles is a series of novels by Anne Rice that revolves around the fictional character Lestat de Lioncourt, a French nobleman made into a vampire in the 18^th century.

Now… don’t run out and plan the party yet, guys. Until there is official word, all we can call something is ‘rumor.’ Right now, this is nothing more than a rumor.

But Robert Downey Jr.?

Now, I have been waiting forever for Blood & Gold to be the theme… for obvious reasons. I believe this website is enough statement as to what those reasons are. And I LOVE, love, love the Sookie Stackhouse books and True Blood. But, I am sort of ‘humphed’ that the two will be combined because I feel it mitigates both series. Most of all, it takes attention away from the Marius theme! It is disappointing because I have been salivating over this for a while.

Ah well.

I am going to buy my ticket as soon as some of my sponsors put some money into my paypal account. If you would like to purchase your tickets, go here.

And no, I won’t be in any costume or ball gown.

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I have added new fanlistings, though: Donnie Darko (character), Masturbation, The Salem Witch Trials, and The Civil War.

Currently, I am cleaning up my joined fanlistings. I am changing URLS, deleting dead fanlistings, and adding new ones. I figure it was time for a good cleanup, but it is going to take a while. So far over the course of today, I have done all of the A category listings. Whew!

Sion Sono is in this month’s Asian Cult Cinema magazine (ACC 61) talking about his newest movie— which sounds GREAT— called Love Exposure.

Don’t know where to get Asian Cult Cinema magazine? You can order just this issue or you can subscribe.

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I have added more fanlistings to the batch of those up for adoption. I haven’t announced things yet on any boards and I am still waiting for some previous owners to contact me. I am also waiting on a few people who were given certain listings to either contact me or send me the completed fanlisting. I’ll give one more week before sending off an email. Then one more week for a response. After that, they will go back up for adoption.

Since I moved the site to the new domain, I also put up a new layout.

I updated the dots with 79 new people. I need to bring up a few things. First off, you have to submit a form through the come die with us page, not through these update comments. Secondly, you have to put a gender of either female or male. Shemale, it, bigender don’t count. I don’t even care which gender you were born as. The way the movie is has dictated that we have two genders: female and male. It has to be one of those. Any without one of the two genders listed will be deleted.

I also updated the Are you connected? portion of the site. Remember guys, you don’t have to sign up to leave your own message in that box. You can write it in as a guest.
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