Director Josh Boone Confirms He’s Still Working On The ‘Interview With The Vampire’ Reboot
Almost two years ago, Universalrenewedthe rights forAnne Rice’s 13-partVampire Chroniclesbooks. News broke thatBrian Grazerwould produceThe Vampire Lestatfor Imagine Entertainment withAlex Kurtzman,Roberto Orci, andBobby Cohen. A week or so later after the announcement,The Fault In Our StarsdirectorJosh Booneenteredearly talksto write and direct the film. We haven’t heard much about the adaptation since, but Boone just provided an update on the project’s status, which is currently titledInterview with the Vampire.
Learn more about theInterview with the Vampirereboot below.
Grazer, Kurtzman, and Orci all agreed Boone was the right director forThe Vampire Lestat, but they had to wait for Universal’s final approval, and the studio ultimately gave Boone the go-ahead. It was speculated Boone andJill Killington’s script would use elements from Rice’s booksThe Vampire LestatandQueen of the Damned, but based on a recentInstagrampost of the director’s, his potential adaptation instead cherry picks fromThe Vampire LestatandInterview with the Vampire.
Boone confirmed a draft of the script is now complete:
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Elements fromQueen of the Damned– which was turned into an unforgettably terrible adaptation in 2002 — could still find their way intoInterview with the Vampire. While speaking withNightmare Magazine, Boone mentioned his adaptation would draw from other books in the series:
We’re really focusing on “The Vampire Lestat”, but we’re using elements from some of the other books as well. These were hugely inspiring books when I was young. They really helped shape me the same way Steve [King]’s books did. Anne is a genius, fiercely intelligent. Obviously, I’m attached to direct that one as well, and I’m writing it with my other Mid-World cohort Jill Killington, who [my production partner] Knate [Lee] and I have known half our lives.
The director’s docket is quite full at the moment. Boone is currently working on twoStephen Kingfilms, includingRevivaland another (long-awaited) adaptation ofThe Stand. Boone added to Nightmare Magazine that, likeThe Stand,Interview with the Vampirewill probably take quite a while to get made:
With any of these projects that are so big and expensive like Vampire Chronicles or The Stand, it’ll probably take a couple of years for any of these things to come together and actually get made just because of how expensive it is to bring these properties to the screen and how complicated the adaptation process is. We have a vision for a trilogy of Vampire Chronicles films, and I hope also a spinoff television series to explore all the side characters and their back stories. That’s the dream. We’ll see what happens.
The filmmaker is also currentlyworking onThe New Mutantsfor 20th Century Fox. We’ll just have to wait and see which one of his promising and ambitious projects moves forward first. Nothing against theX-Menuniverse, but hopefully, it’sThe StandorInterview with the Vampire.
