re: Universal has acquired the rights to The Vampire Chronicles

I thought the early books in the series were very well done. And, perhaps counterintuitively, the parts that dealt with the various characters' human, pre-vampire lives were the strongest parts.

One quirk of the series though might be hard to pull off in a series of movies. I'll leave some

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for those who haven't read the books and want to see the movies fresh.


What I'm talking about is Rice's tendency to take semi-villainous characters from one book and tell the next story from their point of view making them sympathetic and making them the protagonists in the next book.

She did it with Lestat and then again with the "cannibal" sisters. Even to an extent with Armand and maybe Marius.

I'm not sure how that would work in a series of movies. Although Game of Thrones pulled off some things that were kind of similar on TV.