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I've never really been drawn to dracula culture or dracula movies. I do love to read and I enjoy books set in or about New Orleans. I'm also not squimish about horror or occult. However, I've never read any Anne Rice books because honestly the... hysteria?... over them never really sat right with me. The people that read her books gushed over them and that surely would mean instant disappoint for me. I don't really care about dracula, so I just didn't bother until the movie came out and I was told I had to see it. Well I really didn't enjoy the movie, outside of it's New Orleans setting. Also, I was in college at Tulane when she fueded with Copeland over Straya, which I thought was silly, and I don't think she just ever struck a chord with me back then.

That being said, and honestly I don't know the character descriptions from the book, I came in expecting to hate this trailer and just peace out of the thread. But... I like the cast diversity and the trailer was well done. I'm still not a huge dracula person, but I'll probably check this out and give it the benefit of a couple episodes at least. Oh, those fleur de lis poker chips are pretty awesome, too.
 
boutrous said:
I've never really been drawn to dracula culture or dracula movies. I do love to read and I enjoy books set in or about New Orleans. I'm also not squimish about horror or occult. However, I've never read any Anne Rice books because honestly the... hysteria?... over them never really sat right with me. The people that read her books gushed over them and that surely would mean instant disappoint for me. I don't really care about dracula, so I just didn't bother until the movie came out and I was told I had to see it. Well I really didn't enjoy the movie, outside of it's New Orleans setting. Also, I was in college at Tulane when she fueded with Copeland over Straya, which I thought was silly, and I don't think she just ever struck a chord with me back then.

That being said, and honestly I don't know the character descriptions from the book, I came in expecting to hate this trailer and just peace out of the thread. But... I like the cast diversity and the trailer was well done. I'm still not a huge dracula person, but I'll probably check this out and give it the benefit of a couple episodes at least. Oh, those fleur de lis poker chips are pretty awesome, too.
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They really didn’t have anything to do with Dracula. They are more fiction set in real NOLA history (and later World History). She writes Incredibly interesting characters and has a beautiful way with words. Having said that, I dated a second cousin of Rice in the early 90s and she turned me on to them. But I resisted for the longest because I thought of them as romance novels. But they are really deeper than that.
 
I actually didn't love the trailer, but i loved the some of the books. At least the first few. I've only read the first of the Mayfair Witches book, but boy was that book fantastic.
 
boutrous said:
I've never really been drawn to dracula culture or dracula movies. I do love to read and I enjoy books set in or about New Orleans. I'm also not squimish about horror or occult. However, I've never read any Anne Rice books because honestly the... hysteria?... over them never really sat right with me. The people that read her books gushed over them and that surely would mean instant disappoint for me. I don't really care about dracula, so I just didn't bother until the movie came out and I was told I had to see it. Well I really didn't enjoy the movie, outside of it's New Orleans setting. Also, I was in college at Tulane when she fueded with Copeland over Straya, which I thought was silly, and I don't think she just ever struck a chord with me back then.

That being said, and honestly I don't know the character descriptions from the book, I came in expecting to hate this trailer and just peace out of the thread. But... I like the cast diversity and the trailer was well done. I'm still not a huge dracula person, but I'll probably check this out and give it the benefit of a couple episodes at least. Oh, those fleur de lis poker chips are pretty awesome, too.
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Just saying it’s hard to indicate you support NO culture and then dither about blocking Copeland’s strong arm, anti-aesthetic tactics
 
guidomerkinsrules said:
Just saying it’s hard to indicate you support NO culture and then dither about blocking Copeland’s strong arm, anti-aesthetic tactics
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Of course I think differently now. I was a just kid. I grew up in New Iberia and then went to high-school in Natchitoches. Small town living was all I knew, so when I moved to New Orleans for college my mindset was 'this is amazing why wouldn't you want more opulance?' I had never been very far out of the state at that point in my life. Honestly, I didn't know any of the background and history, I just knew New Orleans was way better than staring at cane fields, so more yes please.

But, it did turn me off to Rice at the time
 
Wait, is Mayfield Witches related to her Lasher books? It seems kind of similar. Edit: It is! I read that trilogy and it's awesome but I don't remember the unborn fetus part but Lasher trying to impregnate the mother makes sense(or rather familiar). That series was insane especially that one girl that was trying(and succeeding) to have sex with all the males in her family with one being in a graveyard.
 
......Recently, Reid participated in a panel for the Summer TCA press tour (via The Wrap), and spoke about how the upcoming series differs from the first attempt at bringing Interview With the Vampire to the screen. Admitting that he “love[d] what Tom Cruise did as Lestat,” Reid suggests that the series has “a much broader scale” than the original film. The actor emphasized that the AMC show would be "different." Check out his comments below:

I love that movie. And I’ve always loved the work of Anne Rice, so I was very excited to be a part of reigniting it. As a fan of the books, I was excited about the fact that it was going to be made at all, and what we do in this adaptation, in this version of the ‘Interview with the Vampire’ is look at an entire series of books because when that film came out, she was still writing them so they didn’t have perspective of the entire work.
And so when we’re looking at character arcs, we’re looking at a much broader scale. So yeah, it’s valid and I love what Tom Cruise did as Lestat, and I think he should be loved and remembered for that role. And so I’m never trying to touch that. It’s a huge honor to take on this extraordinary part created by Anne, but we are doing a different show. We are actually looking at all of her books. So it is a different feeling than what that 1994 film did.
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The most promising thing about Reid’s comments is the assertion that the AMC series will consider the broader narrative of Rice’s expansive world. Despite receiving positive reviews and performing well at the box office, the 1994 Interview With The Vampire would largely stand alone as a single story, leaving the great wealth of Rice’s other connected works untouched.

It would take another eight years before fans would return to Rice's world in Queen of the Damned, which was released to far less acclaim and was later dismissed by the author herself. This latest adaptation now has the benefit of being able to draw from the entire catalog of The Vampire Chronicles books...........

 

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