What are you working on now?
“Oh, I’m interested in exploring Atlantis. I’m working on a novel now—I was working on it before I broke off to do The Wolf Gift—and it’s called Born for Atlantis, and it’s about several immortals sent to the planet during the time of Atlantis and it tells the story of what happened. They’re now still alive in the modern age and they’re facing a crisis. I’m also working on something to do with aliens.”
Anne Rice
So I found this very WTF quote in an article from 2011, so maybe this project has been moved aside, or MAYBE THIS IS PART OF PRINCE LESTAT, either way, OMFG, had to share it.
Anne Rice consistently, and aggressively, objected to fan fiction based on any of her characters (mostly those from her famous Interview with the Vampire and its sequels in The Vampire Chronicles) or other elements in her books, and she formally requested that FanFiction.Net remove stories featuring her characters.[50] However, in 2012, Metro reported that Rice has taken a milder stance on the issue: “I got upset about 20 years ago because I thought it would block me,” she said. “However, it’s been very easy to avoid reading any, so live and let live. If I were a young writer, I’d want to own my own ideas. But maybe fan fiction is a transitional phase: whatever gets you there, gets you there.”[51]
Anne Rice, re: fanfiction.
So I just came across this quote on the Wiki page re: Legal issues with fan fiction, and it seemed relevant to the VC fandom. Maybe she doesn’t despise fanfic as much anymore!
On Facebook, Anne Rice and fans have been discussing preferred actors for roles in a potential/theoretical future Vampire Chronicles movie. This is what happened in the comments…
“Do we have to talk about that film? Couldn’t we just never mention that film again?”
This actually made me really love her, are we sure that AR really wrote these comments and it’s not a fakebook thing?!
Interview with the Vampire:
“ ‘Don’t be frightened of my fancy,’ she said softly.’After all, the final decision will always rest with you. Is that not so?’
” ‘I don’t understand,’ I said. And a cold laughter erupted from her as she turned away.
“ ‘Can you picture it?’ she said, so softly I scarcely heard. ‘A coven of children? That is all I could provide…’ ”
I’ve written 3 of what I call “hybrid” novels, in which the Mayfair & vampire universes collided. Some time has passed now, and I don’t think those novels were completely successful, I don’t think they’ve worn well.
– Anne Rice, NY, 10/15/13. Paraphrased, I can’t remember exactly how she put it, but that was the message. She doesn’t see a man-wolf/vampire crossover happening.
AND she also said that, although she discussed it with Becket hoping to make it work, a Blood Vivicanti/VC cross-over is not going to happen. So that answers THAT.
I had posted this ages ago, but it bears a reblog in light of the past week’s announcement and speculation surrounding Prince Lestat.
I should mention that the question asked of her was: “Do you see a crossover of the Wolf Gift and VC or Mayfair series happening?”
I don’t believe in anything, and that makes me stronger than you think.
I know me too! It’s surreal.
Further surrealness, she did say this about it (meaning that Marius might be in it, but be careful what you wish for):
“It’s all about Lestat and all about the vampires and what they’re doing right now, how they’re coming to terms with everything that’s happened to them and how Lestat is dealing with demands from all sides that he step forward and become the leader of the tribe,” Rice said on the podcast.
(quoted from here.)
This is novel 1 of a new incarnation of the Vampire Chronicles.
– Anne Rice, The Dinner Party Show, Ep. 64 – LESTAT LIVES!
I can’t find the article, but there was a mention that she has signed a contract for a second book in this “new incarnation,” as well.
It’s weird when you see erotic stuff back-to-back with blood and stuff. I’m sure in the realm of vampires, it’s very sexy.
River Phoenix about the content of the script Interview with the Vampire (via leonmcgrawquotes)
Oh River. If you could only see the fanfic. Erotic stuff back-to-back with blood and stuff is very sexy in the realm of vampires.
(Fanart by Hunsay for Berserk, source)
Appropriating this for the night of Lestat’s big break:
“It came in late August at last. Paris was at its warmest, and the nights were almost balmy… The crowd was standing up to applaud us… These were Parisians shouting for Lelio and Flaminia to come back out."That night Nicolas and I celebrated with a colossal drunk. We had all the troupe up to our rooms for it, and I climbed out on the slippery rooftops and opened my arms to Paris and Nicolas played his violin in the window until we’d awakened the whole neighborhood. The music was rapturous… We were dancing and singing as we had in the witches’ place. I almost fell off the window ledge.” – Lestat de Lioncourt, The Vampire Lestat (Part 1, Ch. 7)
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