Interview With the Vampire Renewed for Season 3, Which Will Show Lestat ‘Starting a Band and Going on Tour’

The undead will continue to stalk AMC Networks with a Season 3 renewal of Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire, TVLine has learned. The news comes just four days before the show’s second season finale debuts on AMC+ and AMC (Sunday, 9/8c).

Here’s what we can expect from Season 3, per AMC: “Resentful of the perfunctory portrayal in the trashy bestseller Interview With The Vampire, the Vampire Lestat sets his story straight in a way only the Vampire Lestat can — by starting a band and going on tour. Gabrielle. Nicholas. Magnus. Marius. Those Who Must Be Kept. They join Louis, Armand, Molloy, Sam, Raglan, Fareed and others we can’t tell you about yet on a sexy pilgrimage across space, time and trauma. No auto-tuning. No trigger warnings. All feels amplified.”

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Interview With the Vampire’s second season stars stars Jacob Anderson as Louis, Sam Reid as Lestat, Eric Bogosian as Daniel, Assad Zaman as Armand, Delainey Hayles as Claudia and Ben Daniels as Santiago. Creator and writer Rolin Jones serves as showrunner, executive-producing alongside Mark Johnson, Mark Taylor and Christopher Rice.

“When you buy the rights to 18 Anne Rice novels that have sold more than 150 million copies, in your wildest dreams you hope there’s a show as good as Interview on the other end,” Dan McDermott, President of Entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks, says in a statement. “What Rolin has done with these stories and characters, working so closely with Mark, as the steward of this universe, has exceeded the loftiest version of our expectations. We can’t wait to see where this creative team takes the series from here and know we are walking alongside an incredibly loyal and passionate base of fans who feel as strongly about this material as we do.”

“Thank you to the brilliant casts and crews of the first two seasons that got us to this day,” adds Jones. “Thank you to the rabid, beautifully unwell fandom that scaled the castle walls to get us to this day. Thank you to Dan McDermott, Ben Davis for the funds and tools to continue the great work of dramatizing Anne Rice’s extraordinary novels. And sincere apologies to the family and friends of actor Sam Reid, for the possession that continues to this day. Monsieur L extends his promise to return his body upon cancellation (may that evening never come).”

Book readers, what are you most excited to see in Season 3 of Interview With the Vampire? Drop a comment with your thoughts below.

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