Downey Jr. Taking up Lestat?

Looks like our favorite playboy from Iron Man and Kirk Lazarus from Tropic Thunder has taken up a new mantle…vampires. That’s right kids, Robert Downey Jr. is in talks to pick up where Tom Cruise and Stuart Townsend left off, as the main character of Anne Rice’s vampire chronicles, Lestat. Read on for more.

Bloody-Disgusting reports-

We have confirmed this afternoon that ROBERT DOWNEY JR. is in close talks to play the vampire Lestat in Universal Pictures’ The Vampire Chronicles, a newly rebooted franchise based on Anne Rice’s popular novels.

Lestat appears as a major character in both motion picture adaptations of The Vampire Chronicles novels. In Neil Jordan’s 1994 film adaptation of Interview with the Vampire, he is portrayed by Tom Cruise. In the 2002 film adaptation of Queen of the Damned, he is played by Stuart Townsend.

The Vampire Chronicles is a series of novels by Anne Rice that revolves around the fictional character Lestat de Lioncourt, a French nobleman made into a vampire in the 18th century.