So Hollywood is developing a film version of Anne Rice’s “Tale of the Body Thief.”
Can we just admit that this is a bad idea? I mean, the film treatments of this series have been awful – Kirsten Dunst notwithstanding – without any real continuity, so it would just be better to reboot it.
And what better way to do that then to reboot it as a series in the vein of Game of Thrones on HBO? It’s no accident that the best adaptation of an Anne Rice novel was the miniseries of Feast of All Saints that was done about a decade ago. Television gives so much more room to dig into Rice’s dense prose.
Why has no one thought of this?