In 1994, audiences were treated to Interview With The Vampire, an adaptation of Anne Rice's classic horror novel about melancholic vampires spending eternity in the throes of enuii, homoerotic longing, or both. Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, who were movie stars then and now, played the roles of Lestat and Louis, giving meaty performances that endure in the public imagination to this day.
Despite Rice writing many more Vampire Chronicles books after Interview, the movie never did get a sequel, despite what fellow movie star George Clooney would have his colleagues believe. As Clooney explained on an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! a while back, apparently he's a prolific prankster found of impersonating notable figures and sending forged letters in their voice to actors he knows. “Every actor I know I’ve sent a letter from Bill Clinton,” he said. “I try to find their worst film and I tell them, ‘So I was on the plane and .'”
Most of the time, the actor figures out who's behind this. Clooney remembers when he impersonated Brad Pitt and sent a letter to Tom Cruise, "saying they want to do [Interview with the Vampire 2], but this time Brad wants to play Lestat."
We don't know if Cruise fell for that, but either way, the movie never happened, so hopefully they at least got a laugh out of it.
Rice's Vampire Chronicles is going through a renaissance at the moment. Interview With The Vampire is being adapted as a new TV show on AMC, and it is bloody excellent. And they're actually going to make good on the promise of Interview With The Vampire 2, in a manner of speaking. The upcoming third season of the show will go beyond the events of Interview With The Vampire to adapt The Vampire Lestat, with Sam Reid in the lead role and Game of Thrones veteran Jacob Anderson as Louis.
We may not see new episodes of the show until 2026, but considering how good the first two seasons were, it'll be worth the wait.
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h/t New York Post