Lestat’s rock star period is formally right here. Two years and a title change later, the third season of Interview with the Vampire, now rebranded as The Vampire Lestat in honor of the second novel in Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles sequence, is sort of upon us, and if the trailer is something to go by, it’s going to be a suitably wild journey.
That includes star Sam Reid in all his David Bowie-esque glory, the vibes, unsurprisingly, are immaculate. The place the Louis-focused Interview with the Vampire mirrored that character’s extra somber, melancholy, and continuously guilt-ridden method to telling his personal story, Lestat’s tackle issues is all daring colours, stylized graphics, and a booming soundtrack, that includes Reid himself performing a banging cowl of Billy Idol’s “Dancing with Myself”. A genuinely excellent selection given how a lot of this season will inevitably be about Lestat on his personal, making an attempt to right the report introduced in Daniel Molloy’s notorious ebook and providing differing views on among the occasions from the present’s earlier seasons.
Very like the titular vampire himself, The Vampire Lestat’s trailer covers up a mess of sins and traumas with flashing lights, arresting costumes, and screaming fangirls. However this tour isn’t going to be for the faint of coronary heart. The novel not solely recounts his life as a mortal and his early years as a vampire, however it additionally introduces a half dozen main characters from his previous, together with Gabrielle, Magnus, Marius, Nicolas, and These Who Should Be Saved, whose shadows loom massive over Lestat’s previous and current.
There’s a surprisingly small quantity of footage we haven’t seen earlier than on this clip, which is primarily targeted on Lestat’s rock star persona. However there are some enjoyable hints of issues to come back: a fast glimpse of Lestat (in all probability as a human) in eighteenth-century France, what seems to be his abduction by Magnus earlier than being turned, and the looks of Queen of the Damned’s Child Jenks within the current day. There’s additionally, in fact, an look by Lestat’s mom, Gabriella (Gabrielle within the ebook, however let’s go along with it), who has a really… let’s simply name it sophisticated relationship together with her son.
