Casting Call: The Vampire Chronicles

One of Christine's and my favorite games to play is "Casting Call." We choose a book and decide what actors we would cast as the characters.

One of our favorite series is Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. Two movies have been made, and while I enjoy "Interview with the Vampire" and thought Stuart Townsend was an inspired choice for Lestat in "Queen of the Damned," neither truly captures what we love about the series. So we cast our own movie.

The following is my choice, and Christine contests some of them.

I want to see a movie that begins with The Vampire Lestat. Lestat, disappointed with how he has been portrayed in previous films, determines to make his own movie telling his story as he sees it. It would end with the same cliffhanger ending as the book and lead into a good version of Queen of the Damned. These movies would actually be good, so the whole series would be filmed.