Queen of the Damned

Queen of the Damned
Information
Release Date	February 22, 2002
Writer(s)	Scott Abbott Michael Petroni
Director(s)	Michael Rymer
Producer(s)	Jorge Saralegui
Run Time	101 minutes
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures

Queen of the Damned is a 2002 horror film directed by Michael Rymer from a screenplay by Scott Abbott and Michael Petroni, and based on the 1988 novel The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice, the third novel of the book series The Vampire Chronicles.

Cast

• Stuart Townsend as Lestat de Lioncourt
  • Matt Hassall as Lestat de Lioncourt's Violinist Double
• Aaliyah as Akasha
• Marguerite Moreau as Jesse Reeves
  • Rachael Tanner as Young Jesse Reeves
• Paul McGann as David Talbot
• Lena Olin as Maharet
• Christian Manon as Mael
• Claudia Black as Pandora
• Vincent Perez as Marius
• Bruce Spence as Khayman
• Matthew Newton as Armand
• Pia Miranda as Jesse Reeves' Roommate
• Tiriel Mora as Roger
• Jonathan Davis as a Scalper and uncredited singing voice for Lestat de Lioncourt
• Darren Wilson as Sound Engineer
• Rowland S. Howard as Vampire Guitarist
• Hugo Race as Vampire Bass
• Robin Casinader as Vampire Pianist
• Johnathan Devoy as James
• Serena Altschul as herself

Trivia

• The film is a loose adaptation of The Queen of the Damned, but includes some elements of the second book in the series, The Vampire Lestat, that provide required backstory.
• Many major storylines from the books are not in the film, but characters in the film also deviate from the ones in the book series in some notable specific ways: Marius is presented in the movie as Lestat's vampire maker (where in the books, Lestat is made by Magnus and seeks out his eventual mentor Marius afterwards), Akasha's plan is to kill humanity (in the books it is specifically to eliminate most of the male population), and Maharet becomes the holder of the sacred core after Akasha's death (in the book, it is her twin sister Mekare, who is not included in the movie). The relationship between Jesse and Lestat is also expanded, the two characters only having had brief interactions in the book.
• Several major characters from the book The Queen of the Damned are not included in the movie, and other major characters (Armand, Pandora, Mael, and Khayman) are only given names in a deleted scene.

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