I hate to bother you and preemptively thank you for your time– but I’m having trouble finding a piece of fan art. I’m pretty sure it’s Louis and Lestat, and Louis’ drawn to look like Tom Hiddleston. But it’s not the IWTV poster by Derlaine8. I think Lestat’s posed to bite Louis? I figured if anyone would know what I was looking for, it would be you.

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Not a bother at all! If there were a collector of fanart who might possibly know what you’re looking for… I would be that one. I definitely know the @derlaine and @reapersun collab, it’s amazing [X]! I can only think of 2 other fanarts that fit what you’re looking for… 

“I will be your one true sun.” by @wantstobelieve (I think this is the one you’re looking for… I’m not reposting it here in thumbnail or detail bc I think the artist strongly disapproves of doing either); 

Or it could be this one, since Lestat’s the one biting, but Loki doesn’t really look like Tom Hiddleston:

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Thor vampire X  loki. by @10000ta (please reblog from the link or the source!)

Otherwise, try my #thorki tag, bc in some fanart, the resemblance to L/L is uncanny. Does anyone know of a fanart that fits anon’s description?

Hey I saw one of your posts about Armand’s accent, and Kiev was actually part of Russia until the 50s. Over half the people in Ukraine are Russian. Also, Kiev is actually known as the “mother of all russian cities.” So it’s Kiev, Ukraine now, but I guess AR says Russia because back when Armand lived there it was still Russia. (:

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Thanks for clarifying! I was confused about that. [Anon refers to this post]

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BTW, there are some gr9 reblogs/comments on that post about his accent, worth checking out. The general consensus seems to be that it depends upon what point in canon you’re at and accept, bc it changed over time (I’m going to reblog from smne on the chain after it has a little more time to get more responses).

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rainbow-femme:

My favorite part of The Vampire Lestat is that he was angry Louis wrote a book that made him look over dramatic so he wrote his own book where he comes off ten times more over dramatic than Louis ever did

I’m super excited about the VC tv series (even though I truly adore the movies; it’s one of my favorite films.) do you have any dream casts for the series?

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I am super excited and cautiously optimistic and ambivalent and detached, in waves. BC we’ve waited a looooong time for a new adaptation, I’m not gonna stay set on “super excited” mode until we see news that it’s filming PREMIERING!

That said… I did a big ideal cast post here*, and I stand by it, even now. Here’s just the de Lioncourts bc TVL is supposedly happening first and they’re major characters in it.

There are alot more options in the #VC casting tag, if you have some time to kill!  

*And I know these ppl may not be available but they’re close to my headcanon, so picking someone like them would be gr9 as far as I’m concerned ;D

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^Lestat de Lioncourt: Brett Scallions from Fuel, circa the 90′s.

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^Gabrielle de Lioncourt: Grace Kelly, (gif is from The Swan, 1956)

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^Marquis Valère de Lioncourt: Timothy Omundson, 2016. But now I’ve seen him in Galavant and he is so adorbz! I might like him too much.

Did AR ever give a reason as to why they were no longer interested in making a VC film? I assume she didn’t like the direction the studio/director wanted to take the film.

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monstersinthecosmos:

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I always got the assumption it was creative differences related to plot because of this:

“As many of you know, Universal Studios and Imagine Entertainment had
optioned the series to develop motion pictures from it, and though we
had the pleasure of working with many fine people in connection with
this plan, it did not work out. It is, more than ever, abundantly clear
that television is where the vampires belong.”

Also, in a comment about character backstories in the same post, she replied:

i-want-my-iwtv:

Nope! Not that I’ve been made aware of. AR didn’t give us a reason why Universal was no longer involved. She just announced to us 11/26/16 that she had the rights back [X] and was developing a VC TV series. So I would assume that Universal rights expired, and they didn’t choose to renew. AR might have raised the renewal cost, too.

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I hope we do get the backstory on that someday, but my guess is we never will. Probably the same kind of development hell that happened w/ movie!IWTV from ‘94, the rights were jostled around for almost 20 yrs bc, from what I understand:

  • the material was/is very difficult to adapt with all the problematic and taboo stuff in it.*
  • the filmmakers wanted to please the VC fans, but they also wanted to make something that people who had not read the books would want to go see! That’s probably one of the reasons for Banderas!Armand, btw. I’m sure the filmmakers had to choose between satisfying the VC fans and reducing the taboo stuff enough to make it more palatable for non-VC fans (Louis, an adult vampire, being seduced by a teenage-looking vampire, might have been too much to ask for in 1994 it might still be too taboo now). 
  • casting was tough,several first choice actors declined.

*@moral-cipher and I were talking about this, and the way ppl criticize canon, and that’s fine, I encourage it! But it is a very problematic series and just about every character is dysfunctional, every character has suffered or has caused suffering in others. The new motto for VC fandom might as well be:

~VC: If you’re looking for a perfect cinnamon roll, you’ve come to the wrong fandom.~

“TV makes it possible to roll it all out….no compromises”

But I can’t find anywhere she directly comments on her reasoning…

I wanna point out that AR is sort of a TV junkie and it really does make more sense to make it a series. Every time she brings it up lately she’s like ~GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION!!~ But you get so much more TIME, which really helps. I haven’t read/watch ASOUE but everyone seems to be enjoying that? I can say that having read A Song of Ice & Fire and watched Game of Thrones, that’s like UGH THAT IS WHAT WE NEED, like it’s so fleshed out with so much attention to detail, that is the way to go.

BUT ALSO don’t forget that VC isn’t linear, and I think that’s going to be a challenge for TV because it’s a little unusual, and it’s got to be able to appeal to more than like 300 LOSERS ON TUMBLR YOU KNOW???????? (jk i love you guys <3) There are networks out there that aren’t going to be afraid of the PROBLEMATIC STUFF, but still might have a hard time wanting to do a non-linear series, so it’s going to take a little smushing around and rearranging. WHICH CAN BE DONE! but I think it’s a big reason why there haven’t been more movies. To do these stories right it’s gonna take a huge budget and a lot of faith that the mainstream can enjoy it, and some of this stuff is just really like, unconventional and fucking whacky so I think we all have to be a little patient and understanding of that. 😀