AMC shares a very gay, sensual trailer for Interview With The Vampire
The series makes its melodramatic debut on October 2
Aux News Interview with the Vampire
Feast your eyes on AMC’s new trailer for its forthcoming series adaptation of Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire. It’s got everything you want from a vampire drama: homoeroticism, period wear, struggles with immortality, and a whole lot of revelry.
From the looks of it, the new series leans into the seductive, melodramatic, and straight-up gay parts of being a vampire, with lots of warm embraces and bloodshed.
“Let the tale seduce you, just as I was seduced,” Jacob Anderson as the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac says. “He was my murderer, my mentor, my lover, and my maker.”
The official synopsis for the series reads:
“A sensuous, contemporary reinvention of Anne Rice’s revolutionary gothic novel, Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire follows Louis de Pointe du Lac (Anderson), Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and Claudia’s (Bailey Bass) epic story of love, blood, and the perils of immortality, as told to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian). Chafing at the limitations of life as a Black man in 1900s New Orleans, Louis finds it impossible to resist the rakish Lestat de Lioncourt’s offer of the ultimate escape: Joining him as his vampire companion. But Louis’s intoxicating new powers come with a violent price, and the introduction of Lestat’s newest fledgling, the child vampire Claudia, soon sets them on a decades-long path of revenge and atonement.”
The series is executive produced by Mark Johnson, who’s known for his work on Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and Halt And Catch Fire. Rolin Jones serves as the creator and showrunner (Perry Mason, Friday Night Lights) along with Christopher Rice and the late Anne Rice. Alan Taylor (The Sopranos, Game Of Thrones, Sex And The City) directs the first two episodes and is also an executive producer.
Interview With A Vampire premieres on AMC and AMC+ on October 2.
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Excellent.
I’ve actually seen people bitching about black actors being cast in main roles. Because obviously there have never been black people in New Orleans. Lol. My issue is the decision to expand the story beyond one season, it opens up the possibility of an unfinished adaptation if AMC pulls the plug…
Jacob Anderson is actually part of what I’m most excited about.The bitching about black actors in some parts of the fandom – though not all – is that they cast black actors and then completely changed the time period from 1791 to the early 20th century, changed the character’s background from a slave owner to something else (and yes, there were black slave owners), and then aged a character who is supposed to be 5 up to 14 and cast a 19 year old. I’m an avid book fan and I’m intrigued, but they’re making themselves an uphill battle in a lot of ways.
Would really like to know what kind of conversations led to this.“Wouldn’t it be progressive to make one of the vampires black?”“Great! Let’s make him a pimp!”That said, it looks better than the movie.“I think we can get Tom Cruise! As long as there’s no gay stuff in it.”“Uh… great… no problem.”Re: Claudia, casting a young adult in the role means means she can work longer hours on set and doesn’t require a tutor or guardian, among other things. It also means we won’t relive the awkwardness of hearing adult interviewers grilling 12-year-old Kirsten Dunst on what is was like to kiss Brad Pitt. But I also wonder if it could mean Claudia could be around for more than one season and they don’t want her to grow out of the role.
Gay subtext was never in the books!. Oh, wait.
I can’t fucking wait to bust out some of the more gay passages from the original novel when dipshits who’ve only seen the movie get pissy about it going woke.
I’m not convinced that they actually plan to be all that true to the source material.It might still be a great, gay story (let’s hope!), but it isn’t really seeming like Interview with the Vampire in terms of the plot.
Thanks for the region locked trailer (why???)Unlocked one below, hopefully I can post a link.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE New Official Trailer HD (2022) – YouTube
Is any property immune to affirmative action casting in the 20th century? I guess not. I’m waiting for that version of Raisin in the Son with an interracial cast that will make absolutely no sense but will be Oscar bait for being daring.