Film Adaptation
In 2007, The Tale of the Body Thief was rumored to be adapted into film as United Artists was interested in purchasing the film rights to the novel. Rice announced via her Facebook profile on February 7th, 2012 that Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's film production company, Imagine Entertainment, have optioned the motion picture rights to the novel. Lee Patterson will write the screenplay. Transformer's Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are said to be on board as producers.
"The plan is to treat the character (Lestat) as if audiences have not met him before," says Entertainment Weekly with word from Imagine.
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