The Interview With the Vampire Movie Almost Had a Wild Bloodsucking Moment With Brad Pitt

These days, erstwhile you deliberation astir Interview With the Vampire, AMC’s sizzling bid adaptation comes to mind. But portion fans hold to spot Lestat’s rock-star era successful the show’s 3rd season, Neil Jordan‘s 1994 movie mentation of the Anne Rice communicative is marking its 30th anniversary.

In a caller interview, the manager talked astir the kerfluffle caused erstwhile Tom Cruise was formed arsenic Lestat, Kirsten Dunst’s otherworldly child-star talents arsenic Claudia, the film’s peculiar effects and then-edgy queer subtext, and more—including a deleted country that would’ve been an particularly juicy showcase for Brad Pitt’s Louis.

Speaking to Variety, Jordan—who said he’s alert Pitt had a unsmooth clip making the film, and attributes immoderate of that unhappiness to the information that his quality was stuck successful a prolonged authorities of misery—revealed he’d inactive emotion a accidental to merchandise his director’s cut.

“We had a mentation that was longer, wherever Brad really goes to confession, and the clergyman is truthful horrified by what he’s telling him helium retreats towards the altar, and Brad drains his humor underneath this tremendous Dali-esque crucifix. I was bittersweet not to spot that there,” Jordan said. “There could beryllium a director’s chopped of the movie. I would happily bash it. But the the occupation successful turning the caller into a movie was that it was a picaresque narrative—’and then, and then, and then, and then.’ It’s not similar this acceptable up hostility betwixt characters that’s resolved successful the 3rd act.”

He continued. “So erstwhile I had chopped the movie, I was saying, ‘I truly deliberation it’s excessively long.’ And we showed it to a paid preview audience, and they said, ‘It’s excessively long.’ So I came backmost successful a week, and present it’s shorter. I don’t cognize if determination are capable fans of the movie to warrant [the merchandise of a longer version], but I would similar to bash it, if possible.”

Interview With the Vampire play 3 volition instrumentality connected Rice’s publication The Vampire Lestat, and the publication was besides incorporated into the 2002 movie Queen of the Damned, which Jordan was not progressive in. He explained to Variety wherefore his clip successful Rice’s Vampire Chronicles satellite is contained to conscionable the 1994 film.

“I was asked to constitute a publication of The Vampire Lestat, which I did. And rather simply, Tom didn’t privation to reprise the role. It was arsenic elemental arsenic that. And it would’ve been rather a antithetic animal. If Mr. Cruise had said helium would bash it, I’m definite they would’ve done it. But astatine the clip helium wasn’t doing sequels.”

Several Mission: Impossible movies later, that’s nary longer the case, of course—but possibly it’s for the champion that Cruise’s Lestat is simply a carnal of 1994 and nary more. Would you beryllium funny successful seeing a director’s chopped of Jordan’s film? And are you looking guardant to play 3 of the AMC series?

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