Anne Rice wrote Lestat in the 1976 novel with Rutger Hauer in mind. The rights to the novel were optioned by Paramount for $150,000 before the book was published, and John Travolta was earmarked to play Lestat, but a glut of vampire films at the time with Dracula (1979), Nosferatu - Il principe della notte (1979), and Amore al primo morso (1979) put the project on hiatus. By the time the film was in preproduction, Hauer and Travolta had become too old to portray the ever-young vampire (ironically, Hauer would later portray a vampire in both Buffy - L'ammazzavampiri (1992) and Salem's Lot (2004)). Upon learning that Tom Cruise had been cast, Rice was livid and stated Cruise could not carry the part, calling the casting "so bizarre; it's almost impossible to imagine how it's going to work" and "the worst crime in the name of casting since Il falò delle vanità (1990)." Rice recused herself from the production and did not view the film until a producer sent her a VHS copy. Rice was so impressed by Cruise's performance that she wrote him a letter of apology and recorded a two-minute video endorsing the film that was included as a pre-feature on mid-1990s VHS releases of Interview with the Vampire.

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