Talk:Charlie Swan and Sue Clearwater/@comment-65.9.204.178-20140512040601/@comment-7600752-20140514052000

I also have to say that the movie script writers did a wonderful job in transferring the books into movies. People who had only read the books and people who only saw the movies could have conversations and the basic story is still there. Meyer was lucky...she also had a lot of say in the movies. The same cannot be said for Anne Rice and the Vampire Chronicles. The first movie "Interview With the Vampire" was pretty good. The actors were outstanding and knew their characters well. Then they wait about ten years later to make "Queen of the Damned," skipping forward several books. As soon as "Interview" was in theatres, they should have immediately began shooting the next book "The Vampire Lestat" and recast the original main actors. "Queen of the Damned" was one of the worst transfer from book to film that I've ever seen. I mean...it was AWFUL! The scriptwriters took Rice's story and changed EVERYTHING about it. I barely recognized Rice's story since it was bogged so deep in something different. I feel very sorry for Rice - she had a great Vampire Series in book form...but it never caught on with film.