AMC’s highly acclaimed “Interview with the Vampire” series was notable for doing something unexpected – when it adapted the famed Anne Rice novel, it opted to tell the story over two seasons, not one.
As a result of the extra room of fifteen overall episodes, the series was able to work in some lore from some of the later books in the overall “The Vampire Chronicles” franchise and explore several creative paths.
While the result wasn’t necessarily a loyal adaptation, it worked very much on its own and has now racked up a large fanbase, along with making many top TV of the year lists in 2024. Now, series developer Rolin Jones has seemingly confirmed that the upcoming “The Vampire Lestat,” the overall third season of the series (and adapts the second book), will take a similar approach.
Speaking with EW, he says the third season feels very much like the first part of something:
“I guess, the bigger question is, have we done the whole book? There’s parts of Interview With the Vampire that still might pop up. We’re digging from all of the books right now. There’s a satisfying [arc] for this season, but it definitely feels to me like part one of two parts, and people should be prepared for that. It gets expansive, and we leave a lot up in the air… we’re not going to have every song written for this season on this season. Remember: Part one and part two!
The 2002 film “Queen of the Damned” compressed the second and third books into one film, and this is expected to use elements of the third, considering they’ve already cast Sheila Atim as Akasha. Jones says the new season is a “very different season” in tone:
“We’re not here to repeat moves we made in season 1 and season 2. You’ve got to go for it, man. It’s Lestat front and center, which just means it ain’t going to be as linear, it’s going to be contradictory, it’s going to be all over the place.”
Part of that will include a much bigger story for Jacob Anderson’s Louis than the second book gives him. Of the character’s arc, he says:
“Out of all the stories that we’re throwing up this year, it’s the one that’s working the best and quickest, and it is crystal clear and it’s really divine and very, very heartbreaking.”
The series returns to screens in 2026 on AMC.
