Interview with the Vampire: AMC’s Anne Rice Series trailer
AMC & showrunner Rolin Jones‘ (Perry Mason, Weeds) upcoming Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire. Up until now, we’ve been treated to looks via preview images and teasers at Sam Reid (Lambs of God, The Hunting) as Lestat, Jacob Anderson (Game of Thrones, Doctor Who) as Louis, and Bailey Bass (“Avatar” sequels) as Claudia
Anne Rice’s 1976 novel, previously adapted into a movie starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in 1994, is coming back to life in a new seven-episode series due later this year on AMC. The gothic tale, which follows the love/hate relationship between two vampires beginning in the late 18th century, is “going to surprise a lot of people,” executive producer Mark Johnson (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) tells EW. “We tried to stay as true to the spirit of the book as possible, but it’s very much a modern interpretation. In many ways, our show is truer to the book than the movie was, which is ironic because Anne Rice herself wrote the screenplay to the movie.”
Rice’s book follows Louis de Pointe du Lac (Game of Thrones’ Jacob Anderson) — who was turned into a vampire by Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid, The Astronaut Wives Club) — as he tells his life story to a modern-day journalist. Expect the series to dive even deeper into Louis and Lestat’s tumultuous, centuries-spanning relationship, and check out EW’s exclusive first look at a bloodied Lestat above).
