''Queen of the Damned'' is a 2002

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directed by

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, loosely based on the third novel of

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's '' The Vampire Chronicles'' series, '' The Queen of the Damned'' (1988), although the film contains many plot elements from the novel's predecessor ''

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''. A stand-alone sequel to ''

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'' (1994), the film stars

Stuart Townsend Stuart Townsend (born 15 December 1972) is an Irish actor. He portrayed Lestat de Lioncourt in the film adaptation of Anne Rice's ''Queen of the Damned'' (2002), and Dorian Gray in Alan Moore's ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' (2003) ...

, Aaliyah in her final film role,

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Vincent Pérez Vincent Perez (born 10 June 1964) is a Swiss actor, director and photographer. He played the title character, Ashe Corven, in '' The Crow: City of Angels'', and starred in ''Queen of the Damned'', playing Marius de Romanus. Some of his films in ...

and

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. Townsend and

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replaced

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and Antonio Banderas in the roles Lestat and Armand respectively. The film is dedicated to Aaliyah, who died in a plane crash on August 25, 2001, after she had shot all her scenes. Released on February 22, 2002, in North America and on April 4, 2002, in Australia, it received generally negative reviews from critics and did not perform well at the box office.

Plot

The vampire Lestat is awakened from decades of slumber by the sound of a hard rock band, and proceeds to take over as their lead singer. Achieving international success, Lestat, having revealed the existence of vampires, taunts the others of his kind during an interview for promoting his first and only live concert.

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, a researcher for the paranormal studies group

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, is intrigued by Lestat's lyrics after hearing one of his songs play on TV and tells the rest of the group her theory that he really is a vampire. Her mentor,

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, takes her aside and tells her they know what he is and that a vampire called Marius made him. David also shows her Lestat's journal that he recovered and gives it to Jesse for her to read on the condition that she promises not to pursue Lestat. In the journal, Lestat recalls how he was turned into a vampire by Marius and how he awoke Akasha, the first vampire, with his music. Unsatisfied with what she read, Jesse tracks Lestat down to a London vampire club called The Admiral's Arms, where he saves her from three vampires and confronts her about Marius. In Los Angeles, Lestat is visited by Marius, who warns him that the other vampires will not tolerate his flamboyant public profile. Marius also reveals that Lestat's new music has awakened Akasha and begs him to cancel his concert, which he refuses. Meanwhile, Akasha, who is searching for Lestat, arrives at The Admiral's Arms. After the vampires reveal their plan to kill Lestat at his concert, Akasha torches the club and kills all the vampires inside. Jesse arrives at Los Angeles and gives Lestat his journal back. She then asks him to show her what being a vampire is like. Lestat scoffs at the idea, but Jesse convinces him to spend his last moments before the concert with her. The two spend some time together and Jesse later asks Lestat to turn her, telling him she wants to be with him and that she wants to know everything he does. Lestat angrily refuses, and shows her what it's like for a vampire to feed aggressively on a human. He comes back to her asking her if this is truly what she wants, she recoils in fear from him, he scoffs at her agreeing and then leaves. While performing at his concert in

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, a group of vampires attack Lestat. With Marius' help, they both fend off most of the vampires until Akasha bursts through the stage and takes Lestat with her. Akasha brings Lestat to her new home, where the two vampires have sexual intercourse, during which time Lestat becomes spellbound by Akasha and is forced to obey her, and Akasha proclaims Lestat her new king. After the concert, Jesse is taken to the home of her aunt, Maharet, who later reveals herself to be one of the Ancient Vampires. Knowing Akasha's plan to take over the world, the Ancient Vampires discuss their plans to destroy the Queen by drinking from her and draining her of her blood. However, they believe that whoever drinks the Queen's last drop will not survive. Empowered by Akasha's blood, Lestat and the Queen confront the Ancient Vampires. When they refuse to join her, Akasha then commands Lestat to kill Jesse, as The Queen sees her both as an enemy, due to being Maharet's descendant, and as food, with Akasha making an example out of her for those who dare disobey her command. Lestat ostensibly obeys, but after drinking Jesse's blood, comes to his senses and is released from Akasha's power. He angrily requests for his "crown" and Akasha openly gives him her arm to feed on. Lestat then turns on her and begins to drain Akasha's blood. With the help of the Ancients, Akasha's power diminishes. Maharet is the last to drink Akasha's blood, killing Akasha. Lestat goes to Jesse and, cradling her in his arms, gives her his blood as Maharet turns into a marble statue and "sleeps", becoming the new Queen of the Damned. Lestat and Jesse, who is now a vampire, visit David and return Lestat's journal. When asked by David what it is like, Jesse offers to turn him into a vampire to which he replies he's too old for immortality. Jesse then bids David goodbye and goes to embrace him. David shows fear and rejects the embrace, sensing his hesitation Jesse looks hurt but nods in understanding. She leaves with Lestat. A few moments later, David is greeted by Marius. The film closes with Lestat and Jesse walking hand in hand, among mortals, into the night.

Cast

* Aaliyah as Akasha *

as Lestat ** Matthew Lassall as Lestat's Violinist Double *

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** Rachael Tanner as Young Jesse *

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as Maharet *

Christian Manon Christian Manon (born 5 January 1950) is a French-Australian actor based in Sydney, best known for his work in theatre. His most notable film role was Mael in the film adaptation of the Anne Rice novel, ''Queen of the Damned''. Credits Manon i ...

as Mael *

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as Pandora *

Vincent Perez Vincent Perez (born 10 June 1964) is a Swiss actor, director and photographer. He played the title character, Ashe Corven, in '' The Crow: City of Angels'', and starred in '' Queen of the Damned'', playing Marius de Romanus. Some of his films i ...

as Marius *

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as Khayman *

as Armand * Pia Miranda as Jesse's Roommate

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played a Scalper and also provided the uncredited singing voice for Lestat. In addition to Davis, several real-life musicians also appeared in the film including Darren Wilson as Sound Engineer, Rowland S. Howard as Vampire Guitarist,

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as Vampire Bass, Robin Casinader as Vampire Pianist, and former Jerk member Johnathan Devoy as James.

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made a cameo as herself.

Development

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had acquired the film rights to several of

's novels—the first three '' Vampire Chronicles'' and ''

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'' trilogy—after a 1988 takeover of

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. An eventual adaptation of ''

'' (directed by

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and produced by David Geffen) was released in 1994, although not without controversy, particularly over fan reaction to the casting of

as Lestat, an objection initially shared by Anne Rice, which she recanted after seeing the finished film. After the commercial and critical success of ''Interview'', Neil Jordan began initial development of the novel's sequel, ''The Vampire Lestat'', although this went nowhere. As the rights to the novels would revert to Anne Rice at the end of 2000, initial story meetings to adapt one or both of the remaining Vampire Chronicles began in 1998. The decision was made early to substantially rewrite the plot, and to base most of the movie on the third book: ''The Vampire Lestat'' was considered too broad and episodic for a two-hour feature film, although the novel's setup of Lestat's awakening and career as a rock star was used. It was also decided to focus on Lestat as the primary character, and the back story of Akasha and the Story of the Twins were omitted, despite these being virtually central to the plot of the novel. Displeased with the lack of progress, and more particularly with the studio's lack of consultation with her over the script development, author Anne Rice wrote a critical reply to a fan's question about the film in 1998: During 1999, the script was developed by TV screenwriter Scott Abbott and Australian writer/director

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. Another Australian,

, was confirmed to direct. Rymer suggested the film be shot in his home city of

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, which would save considerably on production costs. The first actor cast was R&B singer Aaliyah (who had made her film and acting debut in ''

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'') as Akasha, the eponymous Queen of the Damned. The search for an actor to play Lestat took much longer—the idea of

reprising the role was considered but dismissed—although front runners included

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and

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. Irish actor

assumed the role in 2000, and the final cast included

as Marius,

as David Talbot,

as Maharet and

as Jesse Reeves. Australian actors included

as Pandora and

as Armand.

Production

With a large cast of international and Australian actors, ''Queen of the Damned'' began principal photography on October 2, 2000 and ended on February 27, 2001, in a former biscuit factory, converted into a studio in the Melbourne suburb of

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. Location filming took place around the city of Melbourne, although some filming was done in

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. For the scenes of Lestat's concert in

, over 3000

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were recruited from Melbourne nightclubs and on the Internet, then driven on a fleet of buses to a quarry in

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to act as extras.

Soundtracks

The songs for Lestat's band were written and performed by

of the nu metal band Korn, and

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, although Davis's contractual commitments to Sony BMG meant that his vocals could not appear on the soundtrack album. Instead, the vocals were re-recorded by other musicians for the soundtrack's official release:

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of Static-X ("Not Meant for Me"),

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("Forsaken"),

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of Linkin Park ("System"), Marilyn Manson ("Redeemer"), and Jay Gordon of

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("Slept So Long"). During the end credits "Not Meant for Me" is played. It is Jonathan Davis' version although the credits list it as the Wayne Static version from the album. Davis also made a small cameo in the film. When Jesse arrives in Los Angeles, a scalper (Jonathan Davis) attempts to sell her tickets to Lestat's show. The soundtrack also contains other songs featured in the film: "Body Crumbles" by Dry Cell, "Cold" by Static-X, "Dead Cell" by Papa Roach, "Excess" by Tricky, "Headstrong" by

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, "Penetrate" by Godhead, "

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" by

, "

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" by

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and "Before I'm Dead" by

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. The score for the film was also composed by Gibbs and Davis. Both the main soundtrack album and score album were released in 2002. Frank Fitzpatrick and

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were the Music Supervisors for the film and the soundtrack album. The original studio recording of "Careless (Akasha's Lament)" was written and produced by Davis and Gibbs, during the ''Queen of the Damned'' sessions. Vocals were by Davis, keyboards by Gibbs, guitars by

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, and Davis, and drums by

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. Davis released the song in downloadable form via

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and iTunes on November 16, 2007. Plans to record a duet between Aaliyah and Davis never materialised, due to Aaliyah's death.

Release

Author's reaction

By July 2001, author Anne Rice had mellowed her previous stance on the film, much as she had with ''Interview''. When asked about the film's progress, she answered:

Everything I hear about the movie is good. Warner Bros. is extremely enthusiastic. They are working very hard to make it perfect. I have no real news. Let me repeat what I mentioned in a recent message. I met Stuart Townsend, the young man who is playing Lestat and he was absolutely charming. He had Lestat's excellent speaking voice and his feline grace. I cannot wait to see him in the film.

By late 2001, Rice had seen the completed film and was sufficiently satisfied to allow her name to be used on promotional material, although she later became disillusioned about it and dismissed the film in 2003, a year after its release, stating that a television series format would be more suited to the source material. Subsequently, Rice urged fans on her

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page to "simply forget" about the film, which she said was something she could not relate to as far as her work was concerned and that it hurt her to see her work "mutilated" as it had been depicted.

Public and critical reaction

''Queen of the Damned'' was released on February 22, 2002 in the

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and

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. The film received mostly negative reviews from critics, with several reviewers such as Roger Ebert describing it as "goofy" or "damned". The film has an approval "rotten" rating of 17% at

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based on 130 reviews, with the site's consensus calling the film "A muddled and campy MTV-styled vampire movie with lots of eye candy and bad accents." Despite negative reviews, ''Queen of the Damned'' nonetheless topped the box office on its opening weekend, against fairly weak competition. The film grossed $45.5 million on a $35 million budget.

Allan Menzies

In December 2002, ten months after the film released, Allan Menzies, an obsessed fan from West Lothian, Scotland, killed his friend, Thomas McKendrick and drank his blood. After his arrest, he claimed in court that it was Aaliyah's character Queen Akasha from the film that told him to do it.

Home media

''Queen of the Damned'' was released on

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on August 27, 2002. ''Queen of the Damned'' was released on

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on September 18, 2012, and re-released on Blu-ray on February 7, 2017.

References

External links

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