Today's reboots: LESTAT, POLTERGEIST, GODZILLA

Seriously, Hollywood is announcing so many damn reboots these days that I can hardly keep up with 'em all.

Today we have news that big screen reboots are in the works for The Vampire Lestat, Poltergeist and Godzilla. Godzilla makes sense. After all, nobody was all that thrilled with the 1997 version. (Note to Hollywood: If you're making a Godzilla movie, Godzilla should look like freakin' Godzilla. If you can't even get that right, forget about it.) There's not to lose by trying again with Godzilla. Poltergeist also seems rather inevitable, it's kind of amazing it hasn't been remade already.

The Vampire Lestat is the odd one in the bunch. Neil Jordan's 1994 Anne Rice adaptation Interview with the Vampire was a critical and commercial hit, but then the movie franchise skipped Rice's follow-up novel The Vampire Lestat and instead adapted the third book in the series for 2002's Queen of the Damned. It seems sort of backwards to start the series over seven years later with The Vampire Lestat. And the news that Robert Downey Jr. is in talks to star is just... weird.

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