The Big Picture Anne Rice's seminal novel, Interview with the Vampire, has become one of the most beloved properties of all time. After becoming a bestseller, it received a high-profile film adaptation from Neil Jordan in 1994, which became a star vehicle for Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. The sensually driven story follows Louis de Pointe du Lac , who has been turned into a vampire by Lestat de Lioncourt , and the chaos that follows.
Release Date November 11, 1994 Director Neil Jordan Cast Brad Pitt , Tom Cruise , Antonio Banderas , Stephen Rea , Christian Slater , Kirsten Dunst , Thandiwe Newton Runtime 123 Minutes Main Genre Horror Writers Anne Rice Studio Warner Bros. Pictures Expand The 'Interview with the Vampire' Movie Was a Struggle to Get Made According to Nerdist, the rights to adapt Interview with the Vampire were purchased by Paramount shortly after the novel's 1976 publication.
Rice, herself, vented her frustration over the drawn-out process, saying that the studio was waiting to see how Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula would fair before proceeding with Interview. Paramount eventually relinquished the rights. In her book, Conversations with Anne Rice, she recalled that a studio executive, Dawn Steel, told the author that the film was "politically impossible to make right now… no one is going to make this movie.
As we know, Cher never got to star in the movie, but she did attempt to make contributions to the film by the way of music. Cher's tune, "Lover's forever," had been written for the film, but as she told USA Today: "They didn't love it and there were no other vampire outlets then, so I held it." It was eventually reworked for her 2013 album, Closer to the Truth.