The serial reboot of Interview with the Vampire has been renewed for a second season ahead of its first season premiere on AMC. Taking to social media, the official Twitter account for Interview with the Vampire celebrated the news with a “2” written in the font of the series alongside the caption “Break out the Sazerac, #InterviewWithTheVampire has been renewed for a season two!”
“The scope and breadth of this show, and what Mark and Rolin have delivered, is just stupendous,” Dan McDermott, president of original programming for AMC Networks and AMC Studios, said of the early renewal. “They have rendered the rich and vibrant world of Anne Rice’s Interview in a wonderful way, and we’re incredibly proud. From the set build, to production design, costumes and more — no detail was overlooked. This stellar cast delivers powerful performances that emotionally connect us to these characters and their humanity. 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. This is only the beginning of an entire Universe featuring enthralling stories and characters that capture the spirit of Anne Rice’s amazing work.”
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“Bulgaria. Romania. Paris. (Ah Paris!) San Francisco. New Orleans. Dubai,” added creator Rolin Jones. “The writing staff of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire is honored, humbled, and hungry to add more stamps to our vamps’ passport books. All praises be to our fearless network, we shall endeavor not to screw it up.”
Created by Rolin Jones and based on the 1976 novel of the same name by Anne Rice, this latest adaption of Interview with the Vampire makes a few changes to the source material along the way. Described as “a sensuous, contemporary reinvention of Anne Rice’s revolutionary gothic novel,” AMC’s Interview with the Vampire series “follows Louis de Pointe du Lac (Game of Thrones’ Jacob Anderson), Lestat de Lioncourt (The Newsreader star Sam Reid) and Claudia’s (Bailey Bass, Avatar: The Way of Water) epic story of love, blood, and the perils of immortality, as told to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian, Talk Radio).”
Interview with the Vampire Will Tackle Contemporary Issues
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As well as a more modern setting, Interview with the Vampire also tackles some more modern issues. “Chafing at the limitations of life as a Black man in 1910s New Orleans, Louis finds it impossible to resist the rakish Lestat’s offer of the ultimate escape: joining him as his vampire companion,” the synopsis for Interview with the Vampire reads. “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.”
Not much is yet known about what a second season of Interview with the Vampire will involve (we haven’t seen the first season yet!), but it has been revealed that the bloodthirsty, undead trio will head off to Europe.
Interview with the Vampire is set to premiere on AMC and AMC+ on October 2, 2022. Interview with the Vampire is just the first of AMC’s planned adaptations based on the works of Anne Rice, with both The Vampire Chronicles and The Lives of Mayfair Witches now in development.
