{"id":40576,"date":"2025-07-27T07:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T07:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/40576\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T07:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T07:13:08","slug":"amcs-interview-with-the-vampire-is-now-the-vampire-lestat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/40576\/","title":{"rendered":"AMC\u2019s \u2018Interview With the Vampire\u2019 Is Now \u2018The Vampire Lestat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/amc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_amc_1\" data-tag=\"amc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AMC<\/a> is making a big change to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/interview-with-the-vampire\/\" id=\"auto-tag_interview-with-the-vampire_1\" data-tag=\"interview-with-the-vampire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Interview With the Vampire<\/a> for the show\u2019s third season. The core cast remains, as does showrunner Rolin Jones, but the series is being retitled as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-vampire-lestat\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-vampire-lestat_1\" data-tag=\"the-vampire-lestat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Vampire Lestat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe change, announced Saturday at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/comic-con\/\" id=\"auto-tag_comic-con_1\" data-tag=\"comic-con\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Comic-Con<\/a>, marks a shift in the series based on Anne Rice\u2019s Vampire Chronicles novels. Seasons one and two of Interview With the Vampire, inspired by Rice\u2019s first novel, focused on the relationship between Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) and the vampire who turned him, Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid), with Louis recounting his story to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSeason three will shift to Lestat\u2019s point of view, as Reid\u2019s character becomes a rock star and tries to reclaim his story from the way Louis told it, inspired by Rice\u2019s second novel in the series (also called The Vampire Lestat).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAlong with Reid, Anderson and Bogosian, Delainey Hayles (Cluadia) and Assad Zaman (Armand) will reprise their roles in the new season, due in 2026. The Vampire Lestat has also cast Jennifer Ehle (Lioness, Zero Dark Thirty) as Gabriella, Ella Ballentine as Baby Jenks, Jeanine Serralles (Apples Never Fall) as Chrstine Claire, Christopher Heyerdahl (Under the Banner of Heaven) as Marius and Damien Atkins as Magnus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAlso at Comic-Con, AMC announced an Oct. 26 premiere date for Talamasca, the third series in the cable and streaming outlet\u2019s Anne Rice universe (The Mayfair Witches is the other). The show centers on a secret society that tracks and contains witches, vampires and other creatures. Nicholas Denton, William Fichtner, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Elizabeth McGovern and Celine Buckens star; Bogosian will make a guest appearance as Molloy, and Jason Schwartzman also guest stars. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAMC also showed a trailer for Talamasca during the Comic-Con panel; watch it below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tJones executive produces The Vampire Lestat with Mark Johnson, who oversees the Anne Rice properties for AMC, Hannah Moscovitch, Christopher Rice\u00a0and the late Anne Rice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tTalmasca\u2019s executive producers are co-showrunners John Lee Hancock (who also directs) and Mark Lafferty, Johnson, Tom Williams, Christopher Rice and Anne Rice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMC is making a big change to Interview With the Vampire for the show\u2019s third season. 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