Lestat will take heart stage in Season 3.
Interview With the Vampire concluded its second season Sunday evening on AMC and whereas in some methods the sequence drew to a detailed Louis’ chapter of the story, it opened up a model new one: that of the vampire Lestat. With AMC having already introduced that Interview With the Vampire can be again for a 3rd season, the Season 2 finale did fairly a bit to arrange for what’s subsequent for Anne Rice’s iconic vampires — this is the way it went. Warning: spoilers for the Season 2 finale of Interview With the Vampire past this level. Learn on solely if you wish to know.
The season finale of Interview With the Vampire noticed a number of main occasions. First, Louis (Jacob Anderson) completed telling his story to Daniel (Eric Bogosian) by revealing what occurred within the wake of Claudia’s loss of life. Particularly, Louis ended up killing just about everybody concerned with the Paris coven — particularly Santiago (Ben Daniels) — leaving solely Sam (Christopher Geary) and Armand (Assad Zaman) as survivors. Nevertheless, it is also revealed that Armand has been mendacity for seven many years when Daniel exposes to Louis that it was Lestat who really thoughts managed the viewers jury and spared his life and that Armand had been an energetic participant in Claudia’s loss of life. It is revealed that Armand directed the “play” and would have let Louis die and the revelation results in a violent confrontation between the 2 vampires — and the tip of their relationship. Within the aftermath, Louis returns to New Orleans to hunt out Lestat whereas Daniel not solely finally ends up changed into a vampire by Armand however publishes his e-book — titled Interview With the Vampire.
The publication of Daniel’s e-book is a significant a part of the setup for Season 3. As followers of Rice’s novels already know, the second e-book in her The Vampire Chronicles sequence — The Vampire Lestat — noticed Lestat woke up from a many years lengthy sleep by a rock band and, by them, discovers the novel Interview With the Vampire. He decides to reply the Louis’ account of issues with an autobiography of his personal (and by additionally placing out a rock and roll album and happening tour.)
AMC has already considerably confirmed that facets of The Vampire Lestat will encourage Season 3. Here is how they describe the brand new season: “In season three, resentful of the perfunctory portrayal within the trashy bestseller ‘Interview With The Vampire,’ the Vampire Lestat units his story straight in a approach solely the Vampire Lestat can—by beginning a band and happening tour. Gabrielle. Nicholas. Magnus. Marius. These Who Should Be Stored. They be part of Louis, Armand, Molloy, Sam, Raglan, Fareed and others we won’t inform you about but on a horny pilgrimage throughout area, time and trauma. No Auto-Tuning. No Set off Warnings. All Feels Amplified.”
Showrunner Rolin Jones additionally informed TVLine that Season 3 may have a definite shift in perspective and really feel — it actually can be Lestat within the driver’s seat now.
“Lestat [will be] entrance and heart, which implies the present ought to really feel prefer it was hijacked by Lestat,” Jones stated. “Aesthetically, try to be prepared for what a Lestat model of the present seems like and appears like.”
