Anne Rice’s Tale of the Body Thief is in Development

Fan’s of Anne Rice’s best-selling series The Vampire Chronicles may see the return of the vampire Lestat on the big-screen. As according to The Hollywood Reporter, Imagine Entertainment has optioned the rights to Anne Rice’s The Tale of the Body Thief, the fourth book in the series.

Imagine is currently in partnership with India’s Reliance Big Entertainment to fund the acquisition of the film, with the Imagine Reliance Writers Lab currently working on a script.

Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Fringe, Transformers) will also be producing the movie. At this time the project is still in development and not actually set up at a studio, but I’m sure we will be hearing about that very soon.

“The hook of the Body Thief is that the story concerns body-switching. Lestat, depressed and lonely after centuries as a vampire, decides to transfer souls for a day with a psychic, who after the transfer reveals that he has no intention of switching back. Lestat, now in a human body and with the help of some friends, must track down the man and get his body back.”