Screenwriter reveals book adaptation of Interview with the Vampire Season 3 as series awaits renewal at AMC

Although a third season has not yet been commissioned, creator Rolin Jones gives a taste of what book AMC’s Interview with the vampire will next be adapted for television. Interview with the vampire Jacob Anderson plays Louis de Pointe du Lac, who opens up to interviewer Daniel Malloy (Eric Bogosian) and looks back on his life as an undead, the relationships he had, and the people he loved and lost over 12 lifetimes. The series features many modernized elements that bring Anne Rice’s written works into a contemporary setting, although the first two seasons focus on the events of her 1976 novel.

With Interview with the vampire Season 2, Episode 6 ends with the shocking return of Sam Reid’s Lestat in the lead-up to one of Louis’ most tragic memories, and Jones teased Collider which novel will be adapted next, should the series return for season 3. While the series has not hesitated to use elements from later installments of Rice’s series, the showrunner called The Vampire Lestat as the next novel he wanted to focus on. Read Jones’ full response below:

There is no green light. I can’t talk about it. I can only talk about:
The next book I would do would be “The Demon” (The Vampire).
I have no idea who decides why the titles are what they are. I think it’s called The Vampire Lestat. That’s what it’s called, I think, and that’s what I’d like to do. We’re already taking inspiration from other books. We’ve taken inspiration from The Vampire Lestat. We’ve taken inspiration from The Queen of the Damned. We’ve taken inspiration from The Vampire Armand. We’ve taken inspiration from The Body Snatcher a little, or at least a few seeds. There’s a lot of Prince Lestat. We’ve read them. We build these things as if they were all one big thing.

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Is AMC’s Interview with a Vampire Changes made to the story of the vampire Lestat?

For long-time readers, it may come as no surprise that Jones wants to focus on the events of The Vampire Lestat for a potential Interview with the vampire Season 3. Published in 1985, nine years after the first novel, The Vampire Lestat questions the events of the first bookbecause Lestat can finally present his own memories of his life up to the present in an autobiography. While moments from Lestat’s past were revealed to Louis, including his monastic education and his turning point, from Louis’ perspective they were fragments, which raises doubts about their reliability.

Aside from that, Interview with the vampireThe modern storyline of will surely result in many deviations. Not only does the series reveal that Louis’ original interview remained unpublished and add a second account of his life to the story, but it also adds a modern story of manipulation to Louis, Daniel and Armand’s experience. As such, It is currently unclear where Lestat fits into the equation.and whether he knows Daniel’s original novel, due to unseen events between the 1973 interview and Louis’ reprint. With Daniel’s work unpublished, Lestat may yet have his big encore.

While Interview with the vampire hasn’t shied away from the plot of the original novel to incorporate later elements and add new angles to Louis’ story. It’s clear that Jones still has an eye on unfolding the story in a way that stays true to Rice’s original work. So, with Season 2 set to bring the interview with Louis to a close, Delving deeper into Lestat’s past could be a perfect way to keep the cast together while introducing deeper vampire storylines. Additionally, with an entirely new setting, the show can explore how Lestat reinvents himself.

Interview with the vampire Season 2 airs every Sunday on AMC.

Source: Collider

Interview with the vampire

Interview with the Vampire is based on Anne Rice’s series of novels that began in 1976. It is a gothic horror fantasy series that explores the life of Louis de Pointe du Lac through an interview with a journalist. The series is told through flashbacks of Louis’ life during the interview and explores Louis’ relationship with the vampire who turned him, Lestat de Lioncourt, and a young girl he turns named Claudia. The series is the first of Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe media franchise.

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Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Eric Bogosian, Bailey Bass

Release date

October 2, 2022

Seasons

2

Streaming service(s)

AMC Plus

Authors

Rolin Jones

Showrunner

Mark Johnson

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