Interview With the Vampire Will Return for Season 3—and Lestat Will Enter His Rock Star Era

AMC has officially renewed Interview With the Vampire for a 3rd play conscionable days up of its ominously titled season two finale, “And That’s the End of It. There’s Nothing Else.” The Anne Rice adaptation’s 3rd play volition yet spot Lestat participate his Queen of the Damned phase. Nu-metal fans, rejoice.

According to an AMC property release: “In play three, resentful of the perfunctory portrayal successful the trashy bestseller Interview With the Vampire, the Vampire Lestat sets his communicative consecutive successful a mode lone the Vampire Lestat can—by starting a set and going connected tour. Gabrielle. Nicholas. Magnus. Marius. Those Who Must Be Kept. They articulation Louis, Armand, Molloy, Sam, Raglan, Fareed, and others we can’t archer you astir yet connected a sexy pilgrimage crossed space, time, and trauma. No Auto-Tuning. No Trigger Warnings. All Feels Amplified.”

In summation to Lestat’s bandmates, the synopsis mentions Fareed—a quality with ties to Akasha, the archetypal vampire successful existence—who aboriginal becomes a large subordinate successful the Prince Lestat trilogy. This, tied with the committedness of the a “sexy pilgrimage crossed space, time, and trauma” suggests the bid is acceptable to get weird with Rice’s novels—a saga which yet sees a Freaky Friday-inspired body-swapping arc with a kleptomaniac, the vengeful tone of an unborn duplicate bitten by a vampire successful the womb, and extraterrestrial beings called Replimoids plotting the demolition of the mislaid metropolis of Atlantis. On 2nd thought, possibly that’s a communicative amended saved for play four...

Interview With the Vampire’s play 2 finale arrives Sunday connected AMC and AMC+.

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