Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire bites off second season renewal before premiere
The AMC vampire drama premieres its first season on October 2
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Forget having a taste: AMC Networks is heading straight for seconds. The network has already given Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire a season two renewal—before the series has even premiered its first season to audiences on October 2, reports Deadline.
Based on Anne Rice’s hit gothic horror novel Interview With The Vampire and its film adaptation, the new adaptation follows Jacob Anderson’s (Game Of Thrones) Louis de Pointe du Lac and his life as a vampire, as well as his tumultuous relationship with fellow vamp Lestat de Lioncourt (played by Sam Reid) and Lioncourt’s fledgling Claudia (Bailey Bass).
“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,” reads an official synopsis of the vampire series. “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.”
Coming in as the second adaptation of Rice’s debut novel, Interview With The Vampire first hit the big screen in 1994, with Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and a young Kirsten Dunst starring in the film. Wildly successful, the film would go into the vampire flick hall of fame, while also introducing us to the terror that is Tom Cruise’s evil blonde wig.
“We look forward to sharing the final product of this extraordinary effort with audiences in just a few short days and are thrilled that this story will continue,” said Dan McDermott, president of original programming for AMC Networks and AMC Studios, in a statement to Deadline. “This is only the beginning of an entire Universe featuring enthralling stories and characters that capture the spirit of Anne Rice’s amazing work.”
That Anne Rice Expanded Universe looks to be coming full-speed ahead, as the network has an adaptation of Rice’s The Mayfair Witches hitting television sometime in January 2023, with Alexandra Daddario, Jack Huston, Tongayi Chirisa, and Harry Hamlin starring in the magical series.
The first season of Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire premieres on AMC and AMC+ on October 2.
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I’d say from the commercials that the series looks like an interesting adaptation.I do have one giant concern. The actor playing Lestat doesn’t really pop in any of the commercials, and he is basically the lead of the series once they get past the first book. That’s going to be an issue, especially with how much focus is put on Louis in the commercials.
There will never be a good Lestat. Only Bowie could have played him and he declined. Rutger Hauer, on whom he was based, is dead. So I’ll support anyone who takes a shot at that thankless role. The dialogue is insane and Lestat can be a really, really annoying character in the wrong hands. Best to him, I’ll be watching.
To me, Lestat actually being annoying and much less impressive than the myth surrounding him is a workable character choice – it might even ultimately be a way to smooth out some of the flaws in the series created by how much Anne Rice adored the character and wrote the world around him to the detriment to the overall story sometimes. I’m more concerned about Claudia – child actors who are gifted enough to pull off a role like that are incredibly rare. Like it’s a remarkable coincidence that they were able to find Kirsten Dunst when she was nine. How good she is in that role is really only apparent if you watch clips of it now and compare it to her adult acting. It’s profoundly unsettling how well she is pulling off someone who is an adult trapped in a child’s body in the later scenes.
Bailey Bass is 19 and reportedly will be playing a 14-year-old.
I’ll never forget her perfect performance of the line “I’ll put you in your coffin!” It’s legitimately some of the best acting I’ve ever seen.
The fresh hell is this?