Bailey Bass joins Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid in Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire series for AMC and its sister streamer, AMC+.
Rolin Jones is creator, showrunner and executive producer of Interview With the Vampire. Based on Rice novels, the story centers on an 18th-century lord, Louis de Pointe du Lac (Anderson) who is now a bicentennial vampire, telling his story to an eager biographer. Suicidal after the death of his family, he meets Lestat de Lioncourt (Reid), a vampire who persuades him to choose immortality over death and become his companion. Eventually, gentle Louis resolves to leave his violent maker, but Lestat guilts him into staying by turning a young girl — whose addition to the “family” breeds even more conflict.
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The book famously was turned into a 1994 movie, which starred Brad Pitt as Louis and Tom Cruise as Lestat. The film was released in November 1994 and was a commercial success. It received Oscar nominations for Best Art Direction and Best Original Score. A stand-alone sequel, Queen of the Damned, was released in 2002, with Stuart Townsend replacing Cruise as Lestat.
In the movie, Interview with the Vampire, Claudia was an orphan child brought into the Blood in 1794 by Lestat (Cruise) and Louis (Pitt) in New Orleans.
AMC ordered the series in June after acquiring the rights to 18 of Rice’s books in 2020 to turn them into a TV franchise overseen by Johnson. Jones, who has an overall deal with AMC Studios, will executive produce alongside Mark Johnson, Anne Rice and Christopher Rice. Jones is hoping to launch a franchise universe based on Rice’s novels.
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The series is slated to begin production on its eight-episode first season later this year. It will premiere on AMC and AMC+ in 2022. This project reunites Anderson with GoT director Alan Taylor, who is helming the show’s first two episodes.
Rolin Jones, who co-created and served as showrunner for the first season of HBO’s Perry Mason, is the creator, writer and showrunner of Interview with the Vampire. Jones, who has an overall deal with AMC Studios, executive produces alongside Mark Johnson, Anne Rice and Christopher Rice. The Many Saints of Newark helmer Alan Taylor will direct the first two episodes and is also an executive producer.
AMC ordered the series in June after acquiring the rights to 18 of Rice’s books in 2020 to turn them into a TV franchise overseen by Johnson.