Interview with the Vampire: Book vs. Movie
Neil Jordan's 1994 film Interview with the Vampire adapts Anne Rice's book, with Rice also writing the screenplay. Brad Pitt plays Louis, who recounts his years with Tom Cruise's Lestat to a journalist.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Anne Rice
- Year
- 1976
- Pages
- 368Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 14 hr 8 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Dan Bittner
- Series
- The Vampire Chronicles, book 1
A vampire named Louis tells a young interviewer how grief and an encounter with Lestat draw him into an existence sustained by blood. In New Orleans, his unease about killing clashes with Lestat's appetites, while the creation of the child vampire Claudia binds them into a troubled household. Louis searches for an explanation of what he has become and whether any part of his humanity can survive.
- Director
- Neil Jordan
- Writer
- Anne Rice
- Year
- 1994
- Runtime
- 2 hr 3 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas
- Genre
- drama, fantasy, horror, romance, vampire
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
A stranger in a San Francisco room offers a reporter the story of his life as a vampire. Louis begins in eighteenth-century Louisiana, where grief leaves him vulnerable to Lestat's promise of another existence. Their uneasy companionship becomes a household when they turn a young girl, Claudia, whose growing mind remains trapped in a child's body.
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