The Vampire Lestat Crashes Interview With the Vampire‘s Narrative in New Season Tease

AMC did not hold successful moving afloat velocity up with The Vampire Lestat arsenic the adjacent section of Interview With the Vampire and amazed SDCC 2024 attendees with a caller trailer and opus tease from the adjacent season.

The Comic-Con sheet for AMC’s Anne Rice Immortal Universe featured Interview With the Vampire’s cast and creatives, led by showrunner Rolin Jones, connected manus to speech astir season two’s stunning conclusion, which wrapped up the events of Rice’s archetypal caller centered connected Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson).

Before Louis’ devastatingly romanticist reunion with Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid), we got a tease that Lestat would beryllium going connected circuit soon—queuing up Interview‘s adjacent play arsenic an adaptation of The Vampire Lestat (my idiosyncratic favourite of the Rice novels). “So overmuch of the quality successful Anne Rice’s enactment is the prose. And we made a determination aboriginal connected to usage arsenic overmuch of her prose arsenic possible,” Jones shared astir the determination to support going with her nonstop influence—and whitethorn she proceed to person that writer’s room.

Watch the trailer for Interview With the Vampire play 3 here, wherever we get a sensation of Lestat’s rockstar epoch by ways of Velvet Goldmine and velvety vocals not excessively dissimilar Hozier.

It’s everything we wanted and more: the sassy interplay betwixt Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian), directing the communicative arsenic a stone documentary, and our fave play queen, who doesn’t conscionable springiness afloat power of the communicative arsenic seen above. It’s gonna beryllium a riot to ticker this duo interact arsenic they expose the emergence of a real-life vampire connected the roadworthy to superstardom—which wholly won’t piss disconnected different vampires who similar to stay successful the shadows. Or you know… lure an past vampire queen retired of her slumber. 

AMC, which knows the worth of instrumentality service, besides shared a blooper reel from play two.

The Vampire Lestat returns in Interview With the Vampire play three, coming soon to AMC and AMC+.

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