♛I’m excited for the new movie, Louis not as much… he doesn’t think we should be drawing more attention to ourselves, but why didn’t they just cast me? Creative license, I suppose. As for actors to play us, I’m open to anyone. I actually suggested that Louis play Nicolas, since they’re doing my story first, but he’s not so keen on the idea for whatever reason… I don’t see the issue, we could give him brown contact lenses and style his hair differently…
apparently last night at like 4:30 am i started a louis/lestat comic but i have no clue what about because i filled in zero word bubbles except a few cryptic sound effects.
going on expression, body language and my general knowledge of vampire chronicles as a series, lestat was being annoying.
Especially useful for newbies to the fandom.
In NO particular order, NOT exhaustive (will be updated), Includes primarily Vampire Chronicles blogs (some other vampy things may pop up), may be inactive (life happens) but still worth scrolling, does not include rp blogs (different list in the future) though the blog may choose to rp sometimes
– The Vampire Chronicles Wiki – http://vampire-chronicles-wiki.tumblr.com/
– The Vampire Chronicles http://the-vampirechronicles.tumblr.com/
– Creatures of the Night http://nightfreaks.tumblr.com/
– The Vampire Chronicles Confessions http://thevampirechroniclesconfessions.tumblr.com/
– Incorrect The Vampire Chronicles Quotes http://incorrecttvcquotes.tumblr.com/
– My Little Inferno http://mylittleinferno.tumblr.com/
– Ask a Vampirologist http://askavampirologist-blog.tumblr.com/
– Chrissy Death http://chrissydeath.tumblr.com/
– Vampire Development http://vampiredevelopment.tumblr.com/
– The Vampire Chronicles Appreciation http://vampire-chronicles-appreciation.tumblr.com/
– Vampire Chronicles Directory http://vcdirectory.tumblr.com/
– Unofficial Anne Rice VC Club Mexico http://annericevcmexico.tumblr.com/
– Vampiric Musical Theatre http://vampiricmusicaltheatre.tumblr.com/
– Annabell Lioncourt http://annabellioncourt.tumblr.com/
– I Want My IWTV http://i-want-my-iwtv.tumblr.com/
– Lestat de Lioncourt http://thebratprince-lestat.tumblr.com
-Vampires n shit http://fuck-yeah-vampire-chronicles.tumblr.com/
– Nothing box http://sheepskeleton.tumblr.com/
– Team Brat Prince http://teambratprince.tumblr.com/
I have some in my #vc fandom hunters tag, too.
So interestingly as of 4th of November the official IMDB page for the new film has changed to The Vampire Chronicles. And now seems to be officially in pre-production.
@i-want-my-iwtv do you have any news?
I don’t have any other news but I’ll share yours, good find, @claudias-ashes! IT’S REALLY HAPPENING!
However, I would suggest that this is still just a temporary title, bc Josh Boone intends to adapt TVL and include some of IWTV in it, do a trilogy and possibly a TV series for ALL the side characters, so for now, it’s probably safest to put it all under this blanket title. @phoenifia/@firelight-fading linked us to an article about that, here’s the relevant snippet:
But the fact that the status was updated to “Pre-production” so recently is promising!
Of course I can’t find it now but @laurasking and I were rolling around the idea that it could be great to have this film begin in a darkened theatre, playing movie!IWTV, and then we pull back to see Lestat is watching it there by himself. He rented the theatre just to watch it on the big screen ALONE, …he stops the film, slings an arm over the back of the chair beside him, and he turns around in his chair to look at the viewer and break the 4th wall with:
“Do you believe this garbage? *gestures at the screen* Let me tell you what really happened.”
“For a while she was quiet, then Elizabeth Taylor’s violet eyes were flickering and she said: ‘They spat on me in Rome.’ Who did? ‘Ordinary people, on the streets. They crossed over and spat. It was during le scandale, when the Vatican newspaper thoughtfully said I was morally unfit to be a mother and that my request to adopt Maria should be denied. They also announced that my natural children should be taken away from me.’ But it didn’t happen. You survived. ‘Damn right I survived,’ she said with resignation. ‘I’ve been through it all. I’m Mother Courage. I’ll be dragging my sable coat behind me into old age.‘” -Life Magazine, 1969.
Harry Goodwins photographed by Arnaldo Anaya-Lucca and styled by Dean Hau for 7th Man Magazine
Another fanart of Lestat from the Vampire Chronicles. We drew it something like 15 years ago and the pic was taken with a camera from the original drawing… sorry for the bad resolution. ^^ Hope you like it all the same!
Your question… is it a question? I’m so confused. You say Marius is Lestat’s maker and maybe that’s a typo, or maybe you accept movie!QOTD as canon, either way, it’s not my headcanon.
Lestat gave Louis the choice to be a vampire, because when Lestat was forced by Magnus into being a vampire, that was essentially a form of rape. Lestat tells Nicolas (TVL):
“When it was offered me I said no. I tell you I said no. With my last breath, I said no.”
The ramifications of rape are many and I won’t go into detail here, but it had an enormous impact on Lestat’s well-being, and in his relationships with everyone in his afterlife.
Lestat wanted Louis to choose it, to WANT to be a vampire, he wanted it to be consensual, to spare Louis the damage of what Lestat had to deal with.
When Lestat teases Louis about his “whining,” it’s partly out of frustration; he saw in Louis a kindred spirit, and in book!IWTV he explained that killing was part of the deal, and Louis accepted the Dark Gift but then, fledgling!Louis was aghast at taking human life! In later canon, Louis’ “whining” is actually just putting up any rational resistance at Lestat’s ideas for adventure.
VC itself was born from Lestat not having a choice when Magnus forced him into vampirism, in the sense that none of the books would have been written if Lestat had chosen NOT to become a vampire. If Lestat had died the night that Magnus kidnapped him, or been released and died later, as a mortal, he wouldn’t have turned any fledglings, Louis wouldn’t have been a vampire in the 1970s to be interviewed, Louis probably would have succeeded in killing himself over his remorse about the death of his brother… there would be no IWTV, no TVL,…
But Armand would still have existed, as would Marius, and others who existed long before Lestat’s mortal birth. Maybe VC would have been about them.
