Robert Downey Jr to be Lestat de Lioncourt?

[Deadset]

Originally Posted by Lucy Diamond

I think the dude who plays Eric on True Blood could pull it off.

Agreed, he's pretty good, though I'd like to see him play a witty character with some sass, instead of a totally serious fella.

[immortalchaos]

Interview was an excellent movie. No doubt Queen of the Damned sucked. I read a while back that there were going to do Memnoch the Devil with the guy from Queen. Then I came across another article saying that Cruise's studio bought the rights to the series so he could resume his role as Lestat which was one of his best roles. I guess all of that fell threw. I don't think Downy Jr is the right person for the role. He is a good actor as shown with his role as Tony Stark and some of his older 80's roles but he just isn't right for Lestat. I'm not saying they should just hire Cruise for the role either, although he did a great job the first time around. Ledger would have been able to play the role well but well we all know what happened to him. As someone else already said Lestat is a pretty boy and extremely vein and narcissistic as well as a sadist. He was also very self absorbed and spoiled. So with that in mind I am really not sure who could play him well enough for the series to not be cheesy.

[OrlandoEastwood]

Everyone knows you never go full vampire!

Tom Cruise, Interview with the Vampire.

Kate Beckinsale, Underworld.

Danny Houstan, 30 Days of Night.

You went full vampire! Never go full vampire.

LOL, I had to do that. Downey JR. is awesome, he'll pull it off.

[Lucy Diamond]

Originally Posted by Deads3t

Agreed, he's pretty good, though I'd like to see him play a witty character with some sass, instead of a totally serious fella.

Too true. I was thinking visually. It remains to be seen whether or not Alexander whats-his-name can nail Lestat's charm. Lestat wasn't really bad or good, but he was definitely a D!ck...that can be hard to accomplish.


Hollywood must REALLY be running out of ideas. I can see rebooting and remaking classic movies (although I don't really stand behind it), but I don't even think this movie is 20 yet.

They should just remaster and re-release movies like they used to do in the 80's and before.

Something like...every 5 years or so, StarWars would come to the local theaters.

Whenever they have special viewings of movies in New York (most recently Nightmare before Christmas) the theaters are PACKED.