Female writer Anne Rice.
Beijing News News On December 13, according to the Hollywood Reporter, the American female writer Anne Rice, who created "Night Interview with the Vampire", died at the age of 80 due to stroke complications at her home in New Orleans on the evening of December 12.
Born in 1941 in New Orleans, USA, Anne Rice majored in governing and writing at university, and in 1969, Rice wrote the short story "Interview with the Vampire at Night" and became the first of ten books, which became the first of ten books collectively known as the "Vampire Chronicles". Rice has written dozens of popular novels over the decades, many of which have been adapted into film and television works, including the film "Daredevil Island" released in 1994, the film "Vampire Queen" released in 2002, and the first season of "Night Interview with the Vampire" and "Vampire Chronicles" scheduled to be broadcast next year. In 1994, the director of the literary film Neil Jordan adapted Night Interview with the Vampire into a film of the same name, and asked Les to be the screenwriter, starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas and Christian Slater, Kristen Dunst, etc., and the film received two Oscar nominations and two British Academy Film Awards.
Stills from the film "Night Interview with the Vampire".
Les revealed in a 2009 interview that she was so obsessed with vampire culture "because they are supernatural beings, they are dark angels not so much barbaric as they are, and no one will question their charm." ”
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