Interview With The Vampire Images Reveal First Look At AMC Series
AMC has revealed some first-look images of its series adaptation of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire. The book was first published in 1976, serving as the first entry in Rice's The Vampire Chronicles, which ran for a total of 14 books. The first live-action adaptation of Interview with the Vampire was released in 1993, which starred Tom Cruise as Lestat de Lioncourt and Brad Pitt as Louis de Pointe du Lac, the main characters featured in the novel. A very loose sequel, Queen of the Damned (which condensed the second two books in the series into one film), was released in 2002, which recast Stuart Townsend as Lestat and starred the late Aaliyah as Akasha, the Queen of all vampires.
AMC has since acquired the rights to Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles (as well as her The Lives of the Mayfair Witches books) with the perceived intent of adapting the books by season, and Interview with the Vampire kicking things off. The eight-episode season stars Sam Reid as Lestat and Game of Thrones' Jacob Anderson as Louis, with Bailey Bass as Claudia, the child vampire who joins the duo later in the story. Rolin Jones (The Exorcist, Perry Mason) serves as showrunner with Alan Taylor (Game of Thrones, Thor: The Dark World) serving as director of the first two episodes.
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AMC has now shared some new images from Interview with the Vampire, which show off both Reid and Anderson in their respective roles, as well as a look at what appears to be an early 1900s time period. One of the images shows Anderson smoking a cigar and playing poker prior to becoming a vampire, which reinforces early rumors that the story would be changing certain aspects of the book
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