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‘Interview with the Vampire’ Renewed for Season 3, Will Adapt New Source Material

Originally posted on Murphy's Multiverse
By Charles Murphy | Last updated Jun 27, 2024 11:22 AM ET

Just as Anne Rice‘s 1976 novel of the same name ultimately did, AMC’s Interview with the Vampire has become the cornerstone upon which an entire shared universe of stories will be built. Spinning out of the staggering success of the first season of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe continues to grow.

2023’s Mayfair Witches explored a different corner of Rice’s supernatural catalog and a second season is already in production. Two additional projects inspired by Rice’s novels–a six-episode series about the Talamasca and six-part digital short series entitled Night Island–are also on the way but given her Vampire Chronicles make up the bulk of her bibliography, Rice’s vampires will almost certainly remain at the center of AMC’s Immortal Universe. And so it’s no surprise, especially given the series’ popularity, that a third season of Interview with the Vampire has been given the go ahead at AMC.

With the Season 2 finale just around the corner, AMC has shared the news that Interview with the Vampire has been renewed for a third season and, in doing so, revealed that it will be based on Rice’s sequel to her first vampire novel.

Via THR, AMC released the lifeline for Season 3 of Interview with the Vampire. As fans of Rice’s novels will immediately recognize, the logline for the next season of the series indicates that it will adapt Rice’s 1985 novel, The Vampire Lestat.

Resentful of the perfunctory portrayal in the trashy best-seller 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

In a statement, president of entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks, Dan McDermott, talked about the renewal and praised showrunner Rolin Jones and Immortal Universe executive producer Mark Johnson.”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,” said McDermott. “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,” he continued. “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.“

Ahead of the renewal, Jones had indicated his desire to see the third season draw from Rice’s sequel novel saying, “The next book was the one I wanted to do. So I hope I get a shot at it — The Vampire Lestat.” Now that his wish is granted, fans will see Lestat emerge into modern times to give his version on the stories told by Louis, form a rock band and expand on the history and mythology of the world of vampires.

The Season 2 finale of Interview with the Vampire will air Sunday, June 30th, on AMC+ and AMC.

Sources: THR, Nerdist

This article first appeared on Murphy's Multiverse and was syndicated with permission.

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