Josh Boone In Early Talks To Write And Direct ‘The Vampire Lestat’
By Russ Fischer/Aug. 18, 2014 12:15 pm EST
The Vampire Lestat is a story very rooted in the ’80s, and we don’t know if this would be a period piece, or a modernized adaptation. If things come together, Boone would make this film after doing The Stand for Warner Bros.The Wrap reports that producers Brian Grazer, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci have all “signed off on Boone’s hiring,” with final approval yet to come from Universal. That approval however, is reportedly a “mere formality.”
This doesn’t mean that Boone is dropping The Stand, which he’s been developing at Warner Bros. Indeed, the writer/director has scripted his three-hour and reportedly novel-faithful take on Stephen King’s massive tome. Boone did a page-one rewrite on The Stand, which had already been the center of development efforts by a few other teams at Warners over the past couple years. Stephen King has blessed Boone’s script; that should be a pretty great personal victory for the director, who is a lifelong King fan.
Boone would also write The Vampire Lestat, and his aims are reportedly to stay faithful to the novels. (He’ll draw in elements from both The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned.) So fans who bristled at the idea of Kurtzman and Orci being part of this process should be more at ease now.
