Jared Leto Eyed for ‘The Vampire Lestat’

The Vampire Lestat director Josh Boone eyes Suicide Squad’s Jared Leto for the lead role. 

Josh Boone is no stranger to adapting books to the big screen. He successfully brought The Fault in our Stars to cinema masses and spent several months trying (and sadly failing) at bringing a big screen version of Stephen King‘s The Stand  to life. This experience doesn’t seem to have deterred him as it was last week announced that he has begun work on bringing some of Anne Rice‘s finest stories to life.

Whilst initial reports suggested Boone would be remaking 90’s gothic classic Interview with the Vampire it has now surfaced that he will focus in on a different novel, The Vampire Lestat, which does feature parts of Interview with the Vampire. The vampire features in several of Rice’s novels and was made famous on the screen in Interview with the Vampire brilliantly played by Tom Cruise. He also popped in Queen of the Damned with Stuart Townsend taking over the role, a film which despite it’s insanely good soundtrack failed to set the world alight.

A new film means a new face and he seems that Boone has one man in mind for the role, a certain Jared Leto. He’s an interesting choice but when you consider that the 44 year-old actor doesn’t appear to have aged in the last twenty years Boone might well be onto something. Our money has always been on Leto having a Dorian Gray kind of setup but we could be wrong and who better to play a vampire than someone who never seems to age?

Lestat – there can be only one. #JaredLeto pic.twitter.com/CsFqtYw9Na

— Josh Boone (@JoshBooneMovies) May 4, 2016

Lestat appears in four of Rice’s novels (The Vampire Lestat, Interview with the Vampire, Queen of the Damned and Prince Lestat) and it’s no doubt hoped that should The Vampire Lestat perform well then the others will get another airing.