The Interview With The Vampire Series Is Making The Same Mistake Yet Again

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Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire has found new life as a live-action adaptation; however, the series appears to be making the same mistake as its antecedents. In the past, there were always challenges when adapting the novels of the late Anne Rice to live-action. However, what began as a prequel series penned by Rice’s son and presumably a more accurate take on The Vampire Chronicles, soon seemed radically different and lost in translation, once again asking why AMC is repeating the series’ past mistakes rather than learning from them.

Anne Rice’s original prequel was The Vampire Lestat, both a prequel and sequel to Interview with the Vampire. Following Lestat’s life as a mortal, his search for his origins and identity as a vampire, as well as his rise to fame as a rockstar, it recontextualized characters and events from the series. The Vampire Lestat was eventually loosely adapted and, in many parts, completely rewritten for the 2002 film Queen of the Damned.

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Anne Rice’s son, Christopher Rice, wrote a pilot episode for what would eventually evolve into AMC’s Interview with the Vampire television series. Entitled “Wolf Killer,” the script had the potential to deliver what previous movies failed to, a live-action adaptation that better reflected Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles. However, AMC decided to remake the first novel and movie by reimagining the origins of the protagonist Louis de Pointe du Lac instead, making the same kind of shortsighted creative choices that have hindered the series since 1994.

Although not without their merits, the Interview with the Vampire and Queen of the Damned movies had the challenge of condensing their stories