AMC is taking one other chunk out of the Anne Rice Immortal Universe.
Simply days forward of Sunday’s season two finale, AMC Networks has renewed Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire for a 3rd season.
The season three logline reads: “Resentful of the perfunctory portrayal within the trashy bestseller Interview With the Vampire, the Vampire Lestat units his story straight in a means solely the Vampire Lestat can — by beginning a band and occurring tour. Gabrielle. Nicholas. Magnus. Marius. These Who Should Be Stored. They be part of Louis, Armand, Molloy, Sam, Raglan, Fareed and others we are able to’t inform you about but on an attractive pilgrimage throughout area, time and trauma. No Auto-Tuning. No Set off Warnings. All Feels Amplified.”
The second season stars Jacob Anderson, together with Sam Reid, Eric Bogosian, Assad Zaman, Delainey Hayles and Ben Daniels. The season two finale releases Sunday on AMC+ and at 9 p.m. on AMC.
The collection is govt produced by Mark Johnson, who oversees AMC’s Anne Rice Immortal Universe; creator, author and showrunner Rolin Jones; and Mark Taylor; together with Christopher Rice and the late Anne Rice.
“Whenever you purchase the rights to 18 Anne Rice novels which have offered greater than 150 million copies, in your wildest goals you hope there’s a present pretty much as good as Interview on the opposite finish,” stated Dan McDermott, president of leisure and AMC Studios for AMC Networks, in an announcement. “What Rolin has achieved with these tales and characters, working so intently with Mark, because the steward of this universe, has exceeded the loftiest model of our expectations. We are able to’t wait to see the place this inventive workforce takes the collection from right here and know we’re strolling alongside an extremely loyal and passionate base of followers who really feel as strongly about this materials as we do.”
Jones added: “Thanks to the good casts and crews of the primary two seasons that bought us to at the present time. Thanks to the rabid, fantastically unwell fandom that scaled the fortress partitions to get us to at the present time. Thanks to Dan McDermott, Ben Davis for the funds and instruments to proceed the good work of dramatizing Anne Rice’s extraordinary novels. And honest apologies to the household and buddies of actor Sam Reid, for the possession that continues to at the present time. Monsieur L extends his promise to return his physique upon cancellation (might that night by no means come).”
In a latest chat with The Hollywood Reporter, Reid teased what he was most excited to discover forward.
“As a result of now we have [composer] Daniel Hart helming the music of the present, I’m very excited to see no matter he creates, and to be working with him on that’s astonishing,” he stated. “For me, Gabrielle, Lestat’s mom, is such an incredible character. I actually can’t wait to satisfy her and see what that character is like, and I additionally assume the dynamic between Gabrielle, Louis, and Lestat is absolutely fascinating, so I’m very eager to see how that unfolds.”
Reid additionally elaborated on how a significant occasion from the penultimate episode — spoiler alert: the loss of life of Claudia, performed by Delainey Hayles — will impression Lestat transferring ahead.
“Claudia goes to be the largest mistake Lestat has ever made in his complete life — not the truth that she’s alive, however the truth that she died [in front of him at the show trial in episode seven],” he informed THR. “The loss of life of Claudia goes to be the factor that haunts him ceaselessly, and I want that he did save her. I’m unsure if he knew that he might, however the truth that he noticed her have a look at him with a pure connection on the finish — and the 2 of them did share a connection at a number of instances of their lives. I feel he’ll by no means get that picture [of Claudia dying] out of his head, and I feel what it does is it additionally units us up for a relationship with a haunting of Claudia and Lestat that’s fairly thrilling.”
He continued, “I feel we’ve bought the potential of not letting Claudia go, as a result of Lestat has not gotten any closure there, and he has quite a bit to atone for. He has achieved some actually horrible issues, and I feel an exquisite motivation for a personality going ahead is disgrace.”
Interview is the primary collection within the AMC franchise. Anne Rice Immortal Universe now consists of three collection: Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire, Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, which is presently in manufacturing on season two, and the not too long ago greenlit Anne Rice’s The Talamasca (working title).
Interview is critically acclaimed and boasts a 98 p.c contemporary ranking on Rotten Tomatoes for seasons one and two.
Max Gao contributed to this story.