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Anne Rice’s ‘Tale Of The Body Thief’ – Fourth Vampire Chronicle To be Filmed.

Published February 9, 2012

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SO, HOW ARE THEY GOING TO INTRODUCE THE TALAMASCA? LOVE THE BOOK, ONE OF MY FAVS, WOULD JUST LIKE TO SEE THE COMPLETE CRONICLES FILMED WITH A COMPLETE CAST SO MANY DETAILS MISSED FROM CANON, SUCH AS GABRIELLE BEING TURNED NEED TO BE SHOWN.

Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment has optioned the rights to Anne Rice’s The Tale of the Body Thief, the fourth book in Rice’s best-selling series The Vampire Chronicles.
Lestat was first portrayed by Tom Cruise in 1994’s Interview With the Vampire, which was made by Warner Bros. and directed by Neil Jordan. The movie also starred Brad Pitt, Christian Slater and Kirsten Dunst.

In 2002, Warners released Queen of the Damned, a big-screen translation of the third book in the Rice series that starred R&B singer Aaliyah.
Imagine used its partnership with India’s Reliance Big Entertainment to fund the acquisition of Body Thief, and it is using the Imagine Reliance Writers Lab to work on the script. Lee Patterson, who wrote a well-regarded screenplay titled Snatched, is working on Body Thief.

Producing with Imagine are Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, the writer-producers behind TV’s Fringe and the Star Trek and Transformers movies.
Karen Kehala-Sherwood, the Imagine exec who oversees the lab, and the company’s Erica Huggins are exec producing.

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BEN AFFLECK DIRECTED ‘THE STAND’ GETS A SCREENWRITER.

Published January 24, 2012

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The planned feature remake of Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic horror favorite The Stand is one step closer to the big screen this week. In October, amid speculation that the 1978 classic would be re-adapted as a multi-picture affair with David Yates at the helm and his Harry Potter collaborator Steve Kloves on script, Warner Bros. announced that they were putting Ben Affleck in the director’s chair. (No word on how many installments are planned.) Now Affleck has picked a writer: David Kajganich, whose strictly-horror credits include the 2007 Nicole Kidman/Daniel Craig sci-fi thriller The Invasion and Joel Schumacher’s 2009 “Blood Creek.”

The book follows the survivors of a man-made super flu that almost wipes out the human race, and the epic power struggle that ensues as two leaders, one good, one from the dark side, emerge from the chaos. King fans will remember the successful 1994 four-part TV movie (ABC), scripted by King himself (who also had a cameo role), and featuring an all-star cast (Molly Ringwald, Gary Sinise and Rob Lowe, to name just a few).

It’s unclear when Affleck will turn his attention to The Stand. Currently in post-production on his third directorial effort, “Argo,” in which he also stars, he has seven projects in development slated for release between now and 2014. One of these is the highly anticipated American remake of the French adaptation of Harlan Coben’s Tell No One.