After two years and a title change, 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 collection, will lastly hit our screens. And AMC is leaning onerous into the rock star agenda, dropping a brand new track, some extraordinarily campy opening credit, and a date for once we can anticipate the tour, er….the brand new season to formally start.
The collection will comply with Lestat de Lioncourt as he takes middle stage in his personal narrative, an try to set the document straight after the discharge of Daniel Molly’s notorious guide, Interview with the Vampire. That he does this by deciding to embark on a multi-city tour together with his new rock band is maybe essentially the most Lestat-coded alternative ever, nevertheless it’s additionally just about assured to be time. Billing the titular character because the “world’s first immortal rockstar” within the press supplies selling the present’s return, the community is promising “an attractive pilgrimage throughout area, time, and trauma” as Lestat excursions the nation and is haunted by numerous “muses” from his previous.
Anne Rice readers already know that this journey gained’t be for the faint of coronary heart. Whereas it recounts Lestat’s life as a mortal and his early years as a vampire, the novel additionally introduces key figures from his previous, together with Gabrielle, Magnus, Marius, Nicolas, and These Who Should Be Saved, who all have a significant position to play within the franchise’s future.
Along with confirming that The Vampire Lestat would formally premiere in June, AMC additionally dropped the collection’ new opening titles, which function one other would-be banger from Lestat’s musical catalog. The marginally shortened monitor, known as “All Fall Down,” consists by Daniel Hart and carried out by collection star Sam Reid. Like Lestat’s earlier single, “Lengthy Face,” the monitor is now out there on all main streaming platforms, with the promise of much more songs from everybody’s favourite immortal rocker to return.
