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03-07-01 news
More bad luck for Townsend...

Irish actor Stuart Townsend has had more bad luck career-wise this week with terrible news from America. Not only did the Irish actor lose out on the highly coveted role of Strider/Aragorn in the Lord of The Rings movies, But now it appears that his latest movie: Queen of the Damned is bypassing cinemas all together and heading straight to video.

Viggo Mortensen has replaced Townsend in LOTR because Peter Jackson felt that Townsend didn't look old enough in costume to fit the character.

Queen of the Damned is the sequel to the Neil Jordan directed Interview with The Vampire, in which Townsend plays the Vampire Lestat - portrayed by Tom Cruise in the first film.

Originally scheduled to open in October, Warner movies now plans to concentrate on it's bigger projects; and leave "Queen" to the video crowd.

Reason? the acting is apparently not up to scratch; and the film hasn't got the budget to make it as good as it could have been; nor does it intended to promote it enough.

Just a couple of days ago, Anne Rice announced her plans for a third film in the series, Ramses the Damned and the name, Laurence Fishburne, was mentioned.

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