Anne Rice : Who would you have cast in the lead roles then ?

Who would you have cast in the lead roles then ?

Having read that many Anne Rice fans were unhappy with casting for interview, I have to ask who would anyone else see as perfect casting for the leading characters ?

I'm thinking Louis was cast right I loved Brad in that role far more to be honest in anything other than meet joe black. Armand obviously needs to be played by someone younger looking than Antonio Banderas and I never really liked Tom cruise in anything and that was before oprah, now i regard his as a loose cannon at best.

UUUuuummm thinking cap on.

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JARED LETO~~as Lestat

COLIN FARRELL~~as Louis

MICHELLE PHIPHER~~as Gabrielle

DAKOTA FANNING~~as Claudia

jAKE GYLLINHLL~~as Armand

HEATH LEDGER~~as Marius

ANGELINA JOLY~~as Akasha

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'I never really liked Tom cruise in anything and that was before oprah, now i regard his as a loose cannon at best.'

You might not have liked him but Anne Rice said that he played Lestat perfectly. He's her character and that means if she felt that was Lestat you have to accept that's how she imagines Lestat. You can't say she's wrong about her own character. That's like telling a child he's imagining his own imaginary friend wrong.

You want to see something bad, go watch Queen of the hammed.

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And I think it's VERY immature of you and VERY shallow to judge a man's acting abiilty based on your distaste for his personal life. One should not have anything to do with the other. A good man can be a horrible actor and a horrible man can be a great actor. Tom Cruise is eccentric. So he got a little excited on Oprah, it might be fun to mock but most women would kill to have a man do that out of love for them. Are we so cold that society no longer comprehends what love, what real love, makes people do? I think it was sweet and you should be ashamed of yourself for using his capacity to love as an excuse to denounce his acting.

Anne Rice felt Tom Cruise played Lestat perfectly and I'm incline to agree with her. Your reasoning behind judging Tom Cruise is so disgustingly shallow that I can't patronize you further.

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Oh boy have you got it wrong. I always thought him a ham at best. Now I think he's a looney and a ham. And short lets not forget short. Never ever saw the facination in him not even in Top gun when everyone(except me) was drooling over him. Anne Rice liked him as Lestat well good on her as you say its her character . I personally didn't like him. We all get different people in our head when reading a book and i just never saw him as Lestat, I see more a younger Heath ledger maybe. I find it hard to imagine a lestat played by Tom as the wolfkiller mentioned. I just get flashbacks to him as Jack in Legend when i try. You like him good for you. I 2000 don't. Never did.

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No, I have nothing wrong, you immature child. Your reasoning is based on personal taste but Anne Rice felt he played him perfectly. To say that he didn't play Lestat right is to say Anne Rice is wrong about her own character. Have a little respect for HER creation! Fine, if you don't like him, it means you don't like HER Lestat and she's the one who created him so her vision is the true Lestat.


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It's her opinion J, and you have no right to bash her for it. You know plenty about Rice and her books, but nobody appointed you Mistress and Guardian of All That Is Anne Rice. So stop acting like it.

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Lestatic #4

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There are certain things where it's not a matter of opinion.

The sky IS blue. Two plus two IS four. Anne Rice, the creator of Lestat, said Tom Cruise played him perfectly, meaning that is exactly how Lestat is supposed to be as according to the person who created him. That's a fact. It's not a matter of opinion.

She has the right to dislike it but the fact is what she dislikes IS the character Lestat as he was meant to be seen according to Anne Rice.

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You have the right to say that. You do not have the right to call her an immature child for it.

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Lestatic #4

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I didn't call her an immature child for her preference. I called her an immature child for saying I was wrong when there's ample proof that what I said of Anne Rice's views are accurate. And there's no way to say that Anne Rice is wrong about how she should imagine her own character. She created him after all.

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I thi 1c34 nk she only said Cruise was right for the role was, he had already signed the contract, and for her to voice disaproval meant her fans would not see
the movie~and the movie would have bombed!

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WRONG! How could anyone be stupid enough to even 'think' that? Honestly? If that was true she wouldn't have had a tantrum at seeing Stuart Townsend's Lestat and said that he was cold and humourless and not her Lestat. She went as far as to denounce the movie Queen of the damned on 20 /20 and to this day still praises Interview with the vampire. She never pretended to like Townsend to 'save the film'. I have proof she still likes the Interview with the vampire film, she VERY recently, left a possitive review of it's DVD at amazon.com so don't lie. It makes it hard for people to patronize you.

I would thank you not to 'think' lies about Anne Rice's integrity. She might be eccentric but her integrity is in tact. She gave specifics on why she liked Tom Cruise's portrayal. When he was first signed on she voiced DOUBTS that he could do it but when she saw him in action she publically apologized and took out a page in Varity to express her love of his portrayal as the perfect Lestat. She was never so kind about Stuart Townsend.

To this very day, without wanting to 'save face' Anne Rice says Tom Cruise played Lestat perfectly. She does so often. Even on amazon.com she left a recent review for the DVD under the name Anneobrienrice. So do me a favour and NEVER lie about her integrity again in my presence.

Have a little respect.

And don't 'think' things that make no sense when pitted against the facts, it makes you look like a complete idiot.

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It's only because YOU like Tom Cruise--from all I read Anne Rice thought
Rutger Hauer to be the perfect Lestat~ for one thing Cruise is too short
Lestat was six feet tall not five feet six. to think othwerwise IS Idotic.

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Oh, so it's because of me Anne Rice wrote a review on amazon.com about TOM CRUISE BEING PERFECT? It's beause of Me she took out the page in variety? I didn't realize I had so much sway on her.

And you know what's idiotic, thinking height matters in a movie like that. Disguising someone's shortness in a film is very easily. You know perfectly well if you didn't know Tom Cruise's height you wouldn't be able to tell in that film so stop making bad excuses.

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So, I'm the reason Anne Rice wrote this

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~forest/vamipre/state.html

(after her viewing of an advanced copy of the VHS after the production was wrapping up)

And this

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~forest/vamipre/morecomments.html

(A month after it's release)

And her comments on the special message on the first VHS release of Interview with the vampire.

And her review on amazon.com under the name Anneobrienrice.

I did all that?

And you try to lie in saying that it's because she wanted to save face, yet that last one on amazon was done recently. And she never hid that Townsend was a very, very bad Lestat in Queen of the damned. Why would she lie for one and not the other? Don't you see how little sense you make?

Yes, she wanted Rutger Hauer, ORIGINALLY, as in the year 1984! Do you have any idea how old he was in 1994?

But that doesn't change that WHEN she saw Tom Cruise in action she did say he played Lestat perfectly and I provided proof and she didn't write those things because of me, you flatter me by saying that.

And to bring up an actor's height in a film where height is easily disguised, wow, that's petty and shallow. Have you no shame?

Grow up.

So if you don't like it take it up with her. She said ample times that she felt Tom Cruise played Lestat perfectly. It's even in the playbill for the Lestat musical.

If you don't believe me, or all these articles, or the interviews with Anne RIce, or the playbill for the Lestat musical... Then go ask her, yourself. Her E-mail address IS public knowledge or are you afraid of being wrong?

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I AM Anne Rice~ I was just testing your loyalty~ Thanx, for being my fan~

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you are a true moron,

1. Rutger Hauer was whome she based Lestat after, Tom Cruise wasn't even around when Interview was written.

2. She herself was unhappy with the choice of Tom Cruise until after the movie was made.

3. Why do you care so much about the opinions of people you do not even know? Tom Cruise was not the the best choice for Lestat, he was the Studios favorite choie. GET OVER IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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'1. Rutger Hauer was whome she based Lestat after, Tom Cruise wasn't even around when Interview was written.'

I know that. That was the point of one of my posts. That she had said that years ago, before the film was made, he was far too old in 1994.

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'2. She herself was unhappy with the choice of Tom Cruise until after the movie was made.'

That's right. She had her doubts but changed her mind. She never made such a grand apology when seeing Stuart Townsend in Queen of the damned. That was my point as well... Obviously you weren't paying attention.

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'3. Why do you care so much about the opinions of people you do not even know? Tom Cruise was not the the best choice for Lestat, he was the Studios favorite choie. GET OVER IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! '

My point was that Anne Rice said he played him perfectly and if she, the character's creator said this, than you have to accept that is how he was meant to be seen. He's from her imagination, she's not imagining him wrong.

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Anywho...the most important thing (no doubt you will ALL agree) is not the height of Tom Cruise, but the HEIGHT of my text when I post to boards so I can look more informed and substantial. It's not easy staying up to the minute on EVERY aspect of Anne Rice's being and ruling all these goblins at the same time. Often I have almost no time left to dominate forums with my MOST excellent, PEDANTIC views and superb grasp of ENGLISH as it is spoked.
Frankly ladies and gentlemen, there is always a gap between a perceived character in a novel and the one realised on film. I don't let anyone INSTRUCT me on how to use my imagination, whether they are the original 2000 author or small minded literalists picking over details like they are life or death on a board that should hopefully illuminate and perchance provide a smidgeon of entertainment.
I always saw Meatloaf Aday as Lestat when I read the book, or was I thinking of something else...Billy Elliot?

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She based Lestat on her husband Stan Rice, not Rutger Hauer.

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That's right. Admittedly she did say Rutger would make a good Lestat but that was back in the early eighties.

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The main thing that really makes me m 2000 ad is that Stuart Townsend doesn't even look like Lestat. Tom Cruise fits the part perfectly they should remake The Queen of the dammed but first make The Vampire Lestat into a movie with Tom Cruise as Lestat.

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I agree.

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'Townsend had the mannerisms, the attitude, and the sensuality.'

How DARE you pretend to be an Anne Rice fan while saying that! Anne Rice, herself, will tell you that Townsend was cold and humourless and NOT her Lestat. You can't say she's wrong about a character she imagined. Tom Cruise had the bouts of inappropriate laughter, the mischief, the frenetic hand gestures. You shouldn't claim to be an Anne Rice fan until you... you know... READ THE BOOKS!

Where were Lestat's frenetic hand gestures? The laugh? Townsend didn't have that. And since when does Lestat feed on innocent groupies fed to him by a Renfield-style assistant or have an eastern European accent? Try actaully reading the books before insulting the novels, Anne Rice's fans, and the world of her creation by EVER thinking Townsend was anything like Lestat. You should be ashamed of yourself.

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'Pitt was good as Louis.'

That is true.

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Banderas was entirely too old for Armand, he is barely in his teens in the books.'

Umm... Armand was SEVENTEEN. That's barely in his teens?! Proving yet again you obviously never really read the books. Also that's very superficial of you. Sure he didn't look the part but he got the personality right and that's what counts. But then again you actually think Anne Rice, creator of Lestat,is wrong in saying that Tom Cruise got Lestat perfectly and Townsend was NOT Lestat.

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'Jesse was good but hair should have been a more vibrant red.'

That was no scholarly thirty-five-year-old.

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'Maharet was good but they left out Mekare.'

They didn't just 'leave her out.' All that film took were a few character names and the title.





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'sure, she may of said that Tom Cruise was HER perfect Lestat, but just because that is how she envisioned Lestat does not mean that that is how her readers envisioned him, and honestly, the reader's opinion is much more important than the writer's opinion, unless the writer plans to go and buy all the copies of their own book.'

The purpose of writing a book is to convey an idea or image. Anne Rice goes through a lot of effort to describe Lestat's manners and appearance. Aside from appearance all the mannerisms she wrote about were achieved by Tom Cruise, right down to particular body movements, described in detail in the books. The only way the reader could have a 'different interpretation' is if the ignore entire pages of the book they're supposedly 'reading'.

And yes, the writer's opinion matters and I respect and agree with her views on Lestat considering he came from... well, her imagination. You only see shallow goths trying to justify a horrid film saying Anne Rice's opinion doesn't matter. You never see anyone disrespectful enough to say J. K. Rowling is wrong about Harry Potter.

Of course you lot are 'logical' enough to think Interview with the vampire isn't canon. Logic thy name is not teeny bopper. It's people like you that make Anne Rice have to replace words like telepathy with 'mind gift.'

Here's how the people on the Interview with the vampire board are reacting to this stupidity.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110148/board/flat/110352189



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You are offensive. It's great to see Anne Rice fans. I've been one for going on 25 years. But, you. For starters, you need to open your eyes to the world and realize there is more to life than just the Vampire Chronicles and Anne Rice. Obviously you have a compulsive need to prove people wrong. If Anne liked Tom Cruise as Lestat...Great! But others can NOT like him as Lestat and thats great too. It's called PERSONAL OPINION, which you seem to have alot of, but want no one else to have. I never liked Cruise as Lestat. And it doesn't matter to me whether Anne Rice did or not. I did not. Plain and simple. Am I wrong for this because someone else disagrees? No Im not. So get off your high horse (Im sure Anne can protect herself and doesn't need you) and go find a life outside of the imdb boards. Your obcessive complusive. I can tell just from how you write. They have medication for that JtheGoblin....

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Uhh...

1. If you check out my account I post on a LOT of other forums.

2. This is an old thread and I haven't posted on the Anne Rice forum in months so according to you my life revolves around something I rarely post on?

3. It was Anne Rice who said Townsend was nothing like her Lestat. To say otherwise is to say she's wrong about her own character. It's that simple.

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And as I said...She has her opinion. Thats wonderful. You have yours. I have mine. Anne can like or not like Cruise or Townsend. She lost the right to choose when she signed the rights to Warner Brothers. Period. Thus Townsend being in QOTD. And as far as Anne Rice forums, every single one Ive been in, you are there every other post. So yes your life revolves around it. Anne Rice has her opinion and thats good. WE ALL HAVE THEM AND HERS IS NO MORE RIGHT THAN YOURS, MINE OR ANYONE ELSES. She put the books out there for the public to read. The public therefore has every right to share an opinion on what they've read. Get a clue.

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That doesn't even make sense! You hide behind the word 'opinion' to mean everyone is right. We're talking about a character from HER mind. She can NOT be wrong about something SHE dreamed. Get a grip and get over yourself. You stopped making sense and your definition of opinion is beyond flawed.

The fact that you would THINK Anne Rice doesn't have a right to say what she feels about HER OWN characters is a severe disrespect to the author and the concept of the character. Grow up. Accept that Townsend was NOT Lestat, at least not by the original conception and stop grasping for an argument.

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Lmao Townsend fans are silly :P.

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Lestatic #2

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I have nothing against Cruise, and he had the look right for Lestat, but I think Townsend had the mannerisms, the attitude, and the sensuality.

Pitt was good as Louis.

Banderas was entirely too old for Armand, he is barely in his teens in the books.

Dunst was decent as Claudia.

Akasha is tough, but she was miscast. Many times the books mentioned her paleness, she was like marble.

Marius was completely miscast, he was tall and blonde.

David was OLD in the books... he got his youthful body in Body Thief... when he was part of the Talamasca he was an old man.

Jesse was good but hair should have been a more vibrant red.

Maharet was good but they left out Mekare.





Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

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IWTV was totally miscast...Townshed was a better Lestat, besides the brown hair. He was more gorgeous than Cruise and just...better. Pitt was not a good Louis either. Here's who I'd cast if a Vamp Lestat movie came.

Vamp Lestat

Lestat-Townshed if he's not too old, still.
Louis-Emile Hursch. Oh my god.
Claudia-She's not really crucial. Unknown probably.
Armand-Unknown.
Gabrielle-Angelina Jollie would be PERFECT.
Akasha-Hmm...stumper.
Enkil-Same
Maris-Same

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Akasha could be as simple as Penelope Cruz or Monica Bellushi...Marius could be Vincent Perez he was good but what bout Deep or one better John Barrowmen Lestate both Cruise and Townsend were good but thats a big toss up

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Lestat- Evan Peters
Louis- Jackson Rathbone
Claudia- Unknown
Armand- Jamie Bower
Gabrielle-Michelle Pfiefer
Nicolas- Ben Barnes
Marius- Tom Hardy
Daniel- Michael Pitt
David (old)Bernard Hill(young)Luke Pasqualino
Jesse: Sofia Myles
Magnus: Ian McShane
Akasha: Freida Pinto
Enkil: Geoffrey Arend
Khayman: Naveen Andrews
Maharete: Karen Gillan
Makera: Karen Gillan
Merrick: Naya Rivera
Tarquin: Nicholas Hoult
Pandora: Eva Green
Mona: Juno Temple



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Lestat de Lioncourt-Johnny Depp or Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Louis-Orlando Bloom or Wenthworth Miller
Claudia-Unknown child actress
Armand-Ewan McGregor
Daniel Molloy-James McAvoy
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