Summary
Interview with the Vampiredropped a surprise season 3 trailer atSan Diego Comic-Con, showing off Lestat’s new look and rock star lifestyle, along with aQueen of the Damnedreference that had me in stitches. One of themost significant trailer drops from SDCC, this sneak peek at season 3 reveals Daniel interviewing Lestat on camera, taking a new journalistic approach since his interview with Louis in seasons 1 and 2, which was transcribed from audio recordings. The mockumentary-style trailer opens with Daniel complaining about Lestat’s punctuality, with Daniel out of shot.The trailer is cheeky, like Lestat himself.
Fashionably late, Lestat’s new rock and roll persona is on full display as he swaggers into shot, shooting down the producer who greets him with the quintessentially rock-star response “I don’t remember you.“Interview with the Vampireseason 3 will adapt the second ofAnne Rice’sThe Vampire Chronicles,The Vampire Lestat, introducing us to the Lestat of the 21st century that we saw briefly at the end of season 2.Before Lestat joins Daniel for the interview, I note someone sitting in his chair with a surprising resemblance to a certain someonefrom 2002’sQueen of the Damnedmovie.
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Interview With The Vampire Season 3 Trailer Parodies Queen Of The Damned
The Season 3 Trailer Refers To The 2002 Movie
This unidentified figure in theInterview with the Vampireseason 3 traileris a reference to Stuart Townsend’s goth Lestat inQueen of the Damned.He has no dialogue or narrative purpose before being unceremoniously shooed away when Lestat arrives. This absolute takedown had me laughing even on what must have been my 74th rewatch of this visually stunning trailer, packed to the rafters with Easter eggs and love notes to Anne Rice.Maybe the lookalike is a backup, there to fake Lestat’s partif he never appears, but he is certainly a tongue-in-cheek rejection of Townsend’s gloomy Lestat.
Interview with the Vampireseason 3 andQueen of the Damnedboth take elements fromThe Vampire LestatandThe Queen of the Damned(book four) as source material. This overlap in content ensures that the movie and season 3 may share a similar storyline.The show throws its hat in the ring with its bold critique of the movie, declaring its unflinching faith in its own vision. The message is clear - the world needs this story, and the right adaptation has never been made. But here it is. I’m inclined to agree.
Interview With The Vampire Pitch Perfect Parody Is Sassy Not Mean
The Subtle Sass Is On-Brand For Season 3
Times have changed sinceThe Vampire Lestat’srelease year 1985, and since 2002, and nowInterview with the Vampireseason 3will be telling its own story, with all the sass it deserves, as the trailer’s parody makes clear.Queen of the Damned, as well as the other Anne Rice movie,Interview with the Vampire, took a fairly serious approach to Lestat, but Lestat had a wicked sense of humor. Unlike the Lestat of Townsend or Tom Cruise,Reid’s Lestat is as queer as theVampire Chroniclescharacter, with appropriate sass, making the trailer’s sassy parody perfectly on-brand.
Interview with the Vampireseason 3 is expected to be released in 2025.
Sam Reid’s already iconic Lestatvacillated between endearing romantic and gothic horror nightmare in seasons 1 and 2, which felt true to its source material,Interview with the Vampire. Anne Rice reinventedThe Vampire Chronicleswith each release, which kept the series current. The Lestat of 1985’s book two had developed into a rock god, and I see how the show has applied contemporary insight to position its rock star Lestat as a diva media darling.TheQueen of the Damnedparody could have seemed mean, but it feels totally appropriateto the mockumentary humor of rock and roll stardom.
Interview With The Vampire Should Be Even Funnier In Season 3
Comedy Will Find Its Feet In Season 3
Judging from the trailer,the next batch of episodes will make me laugh even morethanInterview with the Vampireseason 2. Eric Bogosian’s dry humor as Daniel Molloy often provided the comedic value in seasons 1 and 2. Now Daniel and Lestat are joining forces to make the rockumentary of the century, comedy is about to find its feet in the show to a whole new level.Interview with the Vampiregenre-switched as was the way with Anne Rice, taking elements of romantasy, horror, and crime thriller, while making time for levity, but season 3 will build on the levity.
Interview with the Vampireseasons 1 and 2 can be streamed on AMC+ and season 1 can be streamed on Netflix from August 19.
It looks like the show will be leaning into the comedy genre in season 3 to bring forward its funnier moments in line with the new, contemporary setting. The show’s trailers before this had a romantasy and horror focus, butthis trailer is taking comedy seriously, so it follows that this provides a taste of what we can expect in season 3. It will be refreshing to see the intrinsic hilarity of a focus on Daniel and Lestat taking place in a rockumentary context.
The trailer for season 3 allows us a glimpse behind the scenes into Daniel’s dialogue on-set, but it plays like a rockumentary overall. Mockumentaries likePeople Just Do Nothinghave provided some of the best laughs of modern television, so I welcome a mockumentary season 3 ofInterview with the Vampire- it is absolutely promising in the laughs department. Whileseason 3 probably won’t all be a mockumentary, it will likely dip its toes in for comedy value and exploration of character perspective, while ensuring it delivers the sucker-punch emotion of the first two seasons elsewhere.
Interview with the Vampire
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Based on Anne Rice’s novel series that began in 1976, Interview with the Vampire is a gothic horror fantasy series that explores the life of Louis de Pointe du Lac through an interview with a journalist. Told through flashbacks of Louis' life during the interview, the series examines Louis' relationship with the vampire that turned him, Lestat de Lioncourt, and a teenage girl named Claudia, whom he turns. The series is the first of Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe media franchise.
