AMC has just dropped the first trailer for its newest series based on the best selling novel, Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, of the same name at SDCC. It's set to release on Sunday, October 2 on AMC — right after The Walking Dead's series finale.
You have nothing to fear but yourself.
Anne Rice's #InterviewWithTheVampire premieres Sunday, October 2 on @AMC_TV and @AMCPlus. pic.twitter.com/f9E1PkJuF2
— Interview with the Vampire (@Immortal_AMC) July 23, 2022
AMC's show account tweeted the trailer with the caption: "You have nothing to fear but yourself."
Based on the trailer, the show seems to be a modern retelling of the novel and seems to have a cast that's to die for — with it including Jacob Anderson (Game of Thrones), Sam Reid (The Newsreader), Bailey Bass (Avatar: The Way of the Water), and Eric Bogosian (Succession).
The show description reads, "Based on Anne Rice’s revolutionary gothic novel, Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire follows Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid), and Claudia’s (Bailey Bass) epic story of love, blood, and the perils of immortality, as told to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian). Chafing at the limitations of life as a black man in 1900s New Orleans, Louis finds it impossible to resist the rakish Lestat’s offer of the ultimate escape: joining him as his vampire companion."
It continues: "But Louis’s intoxicating new powers come with a violent price, and the introduction of Lestat’s newest fledgling, the child vampire Claudia, soon sets them on a decades-long path of revenge and atonement."
Published in 1997 by the late author Anne Rice, the novel was Rice's debut novel and a critical success — uniquely recounting vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac telling the story of his life to a reporter.
This show only adds to AMC's impressive catalog, like Better Call Saul, which is currently airing its final season, and new shows like a new The Walking Dead spin-off show starring Andrew Lincoln's Rick Grimes and Danai Gurira's Michonne.
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