© 2022 AMC Film Holdings LLC. All rights reserved.“You weren’t always a vampire, were you?”
It’s been 47 years since they first sat down for an interview, but the lavishly eloquent Louis de Pointe du Lac believes enough time has passed where he can now offer his complete attention to officially document his story of becoming a vampire to journalist Daniel Molloy. So begins this AMC’s contemporary, seven-episode retelling of Anne Rice’s gothic novel, premiering Sunday, Oct. 2 at 10pm ET/PT.
In present-day 2022, Louis (Jacob Anderson, Game of Thrones’ Grey Worm) is living a privileged life of wealth when he summons Daniel (Eric Bogosian, Succession) once again to record his exploits and pen his story — a cautionary warning. That story takes us to early 1900s New Orleans, where Louis is just 33 when he meets his soon-to-be eternal companion Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid), who he describes as his “murderer, mentor, lover and maker.” The series tells the first half of Rice’s novel and focuses on their courtship and Lestat’s tutelage, as well as their adoption of Claudia (Bailey Bass), a 14-year-old, which is different from the novel as well as the 1994 Tom Cruise/Brad Pitt/Kirsten Dunst movie. Their story is a decades-long drama of love, blood, revenge and atonement.
“I think Anne Rice is probably responsible for the reason why vampires are so universally loved — it’s because they are so human. They’re the most human monsters. They reflect our own humanity back, they talk about our own darkest desires, and they’re constantly questioning their existence, why they are here, because they are motive-conscious demons, who don’t really ever get to die,” Reid concludes. “I think it’s Anne Rice really who made these complex, beautiful creatures.”
And it’s Rice who we can thank for leaving us 13 novels in the Vampire Chronicles book series — and, ultimately, an opportunity for countless more seasons.
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