{"id":4225,"date":"2009-08-20T07:58:52","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T11:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2009-08-19T13:29:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T17:29:21","slug":"lestat-returns-to-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=4225","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Lestat&#8221; Returns to Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/lestat-146x150.jpg\" alt=\"Lestat\" title=\"Lestat\" width=\"146\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Bloody Disgusting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloody-disgusting.com\/news\/17082\">reports<\/a> that Universal Pictures is planning to restart Anne Rice&#8217;s <i>The Vampire Chronicles<\/i> and is in close negotiations with Robert Downey Jr. to play Lestat.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no word on whether this will be a reboot of one of the previously-filmed novels or a new entry in the franchise, but the choice of Downey should attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n<p>As Shadow Jack commented dryly when I told him about the choice of star, &#8220;Because he just does everything better.&#8221;  He&#8217;s certainly done something&#8230;interesting&#8230;with the new Sherlock Holmes movie.  (If you haven&#8217;t seen the trailer for <em>that<\/em>, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QUQbmFAE5WI\">here<\/a>.  I suspect that if you hooked a rotor up to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle&#8217;s grave you&#8217;d have energy too cheap to meter.)<\/p>\n<p>Anne Rice is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bscreview.com\/2009\/08\/bsc-scoop-anne-rice-on-downey-jr-and-vampire-chronicles-movies\/\">on board with the choice<\/a>.  It&#8217;ll be interesting to see what he does with this role.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/\">io9<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloody Disgusting reports that Universal Pictures is planning to restart Anne Rice&#8217;s The Vampire Chronicles and is in close negotiations with Robert Downey Jr. to play Lestat. There&#8217;s no word on whether this will be a reboot of one of the previously-filmed novels or a new entry in the franchise, but the choice of Downey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4225"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4266,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions\/4266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}