The Tale of the Body Thief this feeling to William Blake's poem The Tyger, which is quoted piecemeal throughout the entire novel: At the end of the story, Lestat realizes with horror that he must have been the "tiger" of his visions. In 2007, "The Tale of the Body Thief" was rumored to be adapted into film as United Artists was interested in purchasing the film rights to the novel. Rice announced via her Facebook profile on February 7, 2012 that Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's film production company, Imagine Entertainment, had optioned the motion picture rights to the novel. Lee Patterson was to have written
Burning Bright performances. One of the co-producers admitted that he had known the production was doomed after the first night. Steinbeck was later upbeat about the failure of the play and stated he was still keen to continue working in the theatre: Despite his apparent continued enthusiasm after the failure of "Burning Bright", Steinbeck never made another attempt at producing anything for the theatre. In reality he had been deeply hurt by its failure and some of the acerbic notices it had received from the New York critics: "Burning Bright" was turned into an opera by American composer Frank Lewin. The reviews