{"id":187196,"date":"2025-12-16T22:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/187196\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:06:07","slug":"the-vampire-lestate-premiere-window-set-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/187196\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vampire Lestate Premiere Window Set for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMC\u2019s \u201cThe Vampire Lestat\u201c, the third season in the \u201c<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/tag\/interview-with-the-vampire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Interview with the Vampire<\/a>\u201c series, is gearing up for a summer tour.<\/p>\n<p>The third season of the Emmy-nominated drama will premiere in Summer 2026, <a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1141426\/interview-with-the-vampire-season-3-lestat-cast-release-date-trailer-details-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TV Insider<\/a> reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The synopsis reads, \u201cResentful of the perfunctory portrayal in the trashy bestseller Interview with the Vampire, the Vampire Lestat (Sam Reid) sets his story straight in a way only the Vampire Lestat can\u2014by starting a band and going on tour. Gabriella. Nicholas. Magnus. Marius. Those Who Must Be Kept. They join Louis, Armand, Molloy, Sam, Raglan, Fareed, and others we can\u2019t tell you about yet on a sexy pilgrimage across space, time, and trauma. No Auto-Tuning. No Trigger Warnings. All Feels Amplified.\u201c\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sheila Atim (The Woman King) has been cast as Akasha in \u201cThe Vampire Lestat,\u201c the character played by Aaliyah in the 2002 movie\u00a0Queen of the Damned.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally,\u00a0Noah Reid (Schitt\u2019s Creek), Ryan Kattner (Destroy All Neighbors),\u00a0Seamus Patterson (Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Cabinet of Curiosities), and Sarah Swire\u00a0(The Boys) have joined the series for the third season, based on Anne Rice\u2019s The Vampire Lestat novel.<\/p>\n<p>Returning players Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Joseph Potter,\u00a0Justin Kirk,\u00a0Chris Geary, and\u00a0Gopal Divan also star in season three.<\/p>\n<p>Rolin Jones is the creator, writer, and showrunner of AMC\u2019s vampire series.<\/p>\n<p>Seasons one and two of \u201cInterview with the Vampire\u201c are now streaming on <a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amcplus.com\/shows\/interview-with-the-vampire--1053259\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">AMC+<\/a> and <a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81639986\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Netflix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s only a matter of time before AMC sinks its fangs into a premiere date, so stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMC\u2019s \u201cThe Vampire Lestat\u201c, the third season in the \u201cInterview with the Vampire\u201c series, is gearing up for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7072,90509,156,117764,56372,409,111,139,69,117765,117766],"class_list":{"0":"post-187196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-amc","9":"tag-anne-rice","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-immortal-universe","12":"tag-interview-with-the-vampire","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-sam-reid","18":"tag-the-vampire-lestat"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}