Universal Pictures & Imagine Entertainment Nab Film Rights to ‘The Vampire Chronicles’

By Maryann Yin 

Vampire ChroniclesUniversal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have joined together to acquire the film rights to The Vampire Chronicles.

More than 20 million copies of these novels have been sold worldwide. Thus far, Anne Rice has written ten installments in her popular series. Knopf will publish book 11, Prince Lestat, on October 28, 2014.

Here’s more from Variety: “An earlier version of the story, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, starred Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in 1994 and was a strong performer for Warner Bros. with $220 million in worldwide box office. Rice’s Queen of the Damned, also part of The Vampire Chronicles, starred Aaliyah and Stuart Townsend in 2002 and grossed $45 million worldwide for Warners.” Which actor would you cast as Lestat?