[Update 12:25 p.m.: For its part, a spokesperson for Imagine Entertainment has told TheWrap that the story below is “completely untrue.” TheWrap stands by its story.]
Fresh off the incredible global success of “The Fault in Our Stars,” director Josh Boone is in early talks to stake a claim on the new “Lestat” movie that Universal Pictures sunk its development fangs into earlier this month, an individual familiar with the project has told TheWrap.
Universal recently acquired the rights to author Anne Rice’s novels in “The Vampire Chronicles” series and set Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer to produce along with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.