Rice made vampires cool before Edward Cullen had even been thought of, and, unlike the Twilight saga, Rice’s vampires are dark, dangerous, and utterly fascinating.
However, it seems as though this time around, Rice would be looking for someone who is visually very different to Cruise.
Novelist Anne Rice has enjoyed long standing success with her Vampire Chronicles; the series of novels have been written over a 40 year period, with the latest book in the series due out this month.
Rice herself stated in a Facebook post that she would begin working on an open-ended TV series based faithfully on her novel series, with her son, Christopher.