↳ Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)

mademoisellebianx:

𝕃𝕠𝕦𝕚𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕃𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕥 as portrayed throughout the years  

Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in Interview with the Vampire (1994)

Jim Stanek and Hugh Panaro in LESTAT (2006)

Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid in AMC’s Interview with the Vampire (2022 —)

mademoisellebianx:

𝔻𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕖𝕝 𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕪 as portrayed throughout the years

mademoisellebianx:

ℂ𝕝𝕒𝕦𝕕𝕚𝕒 as portrayed throughout the years

talesfromthecrypts:

The Vampire Chronicles novels (1-6) + AMC IWTV

mademoisellebianx:

𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕍𝕒𝕞𝕡𝕚𝕣𝕖 𝔸𝕣𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕕 as portrayed throughout the years

mademoisellebianx:

𝕃𝕠𝕦𝕚𝕤 𝕕𝕖 ℙ𝕠𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖 𝕕𝕦 𝕃𝕒𝕔 as portrayed throughout the years 

mademoisellebianx:

𝕃𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕥 𝕕𝕖 𝕃𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕔𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕥 as portrayed throughout the years

Someone in an Anne Rice facebook group I’m a part of posted this video of Sam Reid and Claudia Jolly singing Bob Dylan’s I Want You and wow, I really do like Sam Reid’s singing voice! Can’t wait for Lestat’s rockstar era to start.

i’ve been thinking about the timeline in the IWTV show once again. It’s all up in the air now and they play fast and loose with the books so really, it could be anywhere. I’ve read many compelling posts believing that it could be during the Merrick time or during the Prince Lestat era even and there are good evidence for this, it could be it and it would make sense, but personally?

I don’t believe Lestat woke up yet. Better saying, I don’t believe the modern era of The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned happened yet.

And this is not based in any evidence in the show, but more because I’m thinking about structural terms in live action TV. As in, if I was the showrunner for the IWTV show, I wouldn’t thinking that The Vampire Lestat modern era/The Queen of the Damned is a story that works well when told in flashbacks.

And that has to do with the audience, too. Because when we take the Interview With the Vampire story we know that, whatever suffering Louis went through, whatever scars his soul has, he survived, because he’s right there, telling us his story himself.

But Interview with the Vampire is a very… internal story. It’s about grief and loss and Louis’ inner struggles with himself and the ones he loves. But the modern era of The Vampire Lestat and the current events of The Queen of the Damned is a much more action packed story. The stakes matter here, and if it already happened, if Lestat is sitting there in the liveroom telling Daniel about his rockstar era, the stakes are much lower. And not knowing what’s going to happen it’s the kind of thing that binds the attention of the audience, especially the ones that don’t know the books and therefore don’t know what is going on or how it will end.

I mean, if Lestat is there, Louis is there, Armand is there, why should the audience take the very real threat of Akasha destroying the vampires (and only sparing Louis because Lestat loved him) seriously? It already happened and the main characters the audience grew attached too are all there, so it means that whatever damage Akasha caused, they survived it. Makes it less dangerous, especially for a general audience, which is the kind that a TV show is always trying to gain.

Ofc they could find ways around it, really - I don’t believe there’s a forbidden way to tell a certain kind of story - but tbh I think it would be more satisfying to watch the madness of rockstar!Lestat and the rise of Akasha happening in real time.