Anne Rice‘s Vampire Chronicles will make its return to the big screen, thanks to Universal Pictures, which just picked up the filming rights to the popular novel series for Brian Grazer and Imagine Entertainment, according to Variety.
Star Trek writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci will produce the films, which will include the adapted screenplay written by Rice’s son, author Christopher Rice, for the fourth novel, Tale of the Body Thief that Grazer and Imagine had optioned back in 2012.
In an announcement earlier this year that delighted many, Rice revealed that her next book, Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles (due out this October), will see the return of vampire Lestat de Lioncourt and will be a sequel to her first five vampire books through the fifth novel, 1995″²s Memnoch the Devil, and is a “true sequel” to 1988″²s Queen Of The Damned.
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