Lorin Williams July 21st, 2023 - 4:22 PM
Fans thirsty for more of AMC’s Ann Rice’s Interview With The Vampire received a treat at Comic-Con today. Not only did the three-day event feature a haunting activation titled “Streets of Immortality,” AMC released a teaser trailer for the second season. The series, which paused production due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, has announced a 2024 release. View the video below. This article contains spoilers for season one of Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire.
Based on Anne Rice’s (The Vampire Chronicles saga) iconic novel series, Interview With The Vampire reimagines the immortal tale of Louis de Pointe du Lac (Game of Thrones’ Jacob Anderson) as an African American, closeted gay man living in 1920s New Orleans. Struggling under the oppression of two protected classes, he falls for the tempting power promised by vampire Lestat du Lioncourt’s (The Newsreader’s Sam Reid) seductive bite. Louis dies and is reborn as a vampire, but immortality comes at an awful cost. Centuries after his initial encounter, he sits down with a former associate, journalist Daniel Molloy (Law and Order: Criminal Intent’s Eric Bogosian), for a second chance to tell his storied tale.
The first season concluded with Louis retelling Molloy how he and Bailey Bass’s (Avatar: The Way of Water) Claudia betrayed his lover and maker, Lestat, after a raucous feast disguised as a farewell ball. But Molloy views Louis as an unreliable narrator, especially after it’s revealed that Louis has found a new love in his personal servant, Rashid (Apple Tree Yard’s Assad Zaman), who is more than meets the eye.
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This season is set in Paris as Louis and Claudia, now played by Delainey Hayles (Something in the Closet) in a recasting, join a coven of vampires. But like the new season’s tagline states, “Memory is a monster” as they discover the coven was created by none other than Louis’s presumed deceased creator, Lestat.
The first season premiered in October 2022 as part of AMC’s Immortal Universe, an adaptation of Rice’s supernatural and Southern gothic stories which also includes Ann Rice’s Mayfair Witches and a potential third spinoff based on the Talamasca.
The first season of Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire is available to stream on AMC+.
