More from Collider‘s interview with The Fault in Our Stars director Josh Boone, who confirms he’s fighting for the right to get behind the camera for Universal Pictures’ The Vampire Lestat.
“I’m still in the process… Really I haven’t even officially been hired yet,” he explains in a rare admission by a director. “I’m still in the process of trying to get hired. I’m always surprised when those things leak online. But I love it and I want to do it. I’m just in the developmental stage where I’m still kicking the project around.”
But what I enjoyed about Collider’s chat with Boone is his take on Anne Rice’s material, which a lot of people seem to misinterpret as horror.
“I would argue that [‘Lestat’s’] a romance film,” Boone explains when asked about his turn to horror. “If you look at ‘Interview with a Vampire,’ it’s about two people who are sort of in a toxic marriage for a century. You know what I mean? [‘Lestat’] really is still a character-driven story about a relationship.”
Personally, I’m so over the rockstar vampire sub genre (Only Lovers Left Alive put a stake in it), which is why I really hope they tell the history aspect of Lestat’s story as opposed to the modern day one.