Josh Boone Will Chart "The Vampire Chronicles"?

The Fault in Our Stars director Josh Boone is reportedly in early talks to direct the kick off film adaption of author Anne Rice best-selling novel series "The Vampire Chronicles" in development Universal and Imagine Entertainment according to The Wrap.

The site claims Boone is liked by the suits.

The deal includes all eleven of the novels in Rice’s series: "Interview with the Vampire," "The Vampire Lestat," "The Queen of the Damned," The Tale of the Body Thief" "Memnoch the Devil," "The Vampire Armand," "Merrick," "Blood and Gold" "Blackwood Farm," "Blood Canticle" and this year's "Prince Lestat".

The books center around 18th century French nobleman Lestat de Lioncourt who becomes a vampire.

The character first seen on screen  in Neil Jordan's 1994 adaptation of "Interview With the Vampire" starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst. The second film was the much less well received "Queen of the Damned" in 2002 starring Stuart Townsend and singer Aaliyah who died shortly afterwards.

Rather than remake "Interview," the plan is to a adapt the second and third books - "Vampire Lestat" and "Damned". This version is also expected to be more faithful to the source material than the 2002 film. Rice's son, author Christopher Rice is writing the adapted screenplay for the film.

Alex Kurtzman Roberto Orci ("Transformers") and Brian Grazer will produce.

A spokesperson for Imagine has since called the story "completely untrue"--the site says that it is standing by its story.

Boone is currently preparing a three-hour film adaptation of author Stephen King's "The Stand". "Vampire" would happen soon after that.