The Vampire Lestat has wrapped filming in Toronto as of Friday, October 24. Executive producer Mark Johnson said at the Talamasca: The Secret Order New York premiere on October 21 that filming on Season 3 would finish on Thursday. Now, crew members are posting on social media in celebration of the end of filming after production began this summer. When does it premiere on AMC?
Here, we’re breaking down all of the latest updates on the follow-up to Interview With the Vampire‘s critically acclaimed seasons.
When does The Vampire Lestat premiere?
An exact premiere date has not been announced, but it will come out in 2026. Jacob Anderson teased in an interview with Screen Rant at San Diego Comic-Con this summer that it’s premiering in April, but that remains unconfirmed, so take it with a grain of salt.
The show’s account tweeted, “Production has begun” on Friday, June 20, with an image of the clapperboard, a guitar, a retro mic, and a tambourine. Filming wrapped by October 24. Jane Wu, who directed Season 3 Episode 6, posted a photo of her episode’s clapperboard on Friday to celebrate the end of filming (below). The board says Earle Dresner was the cinematographer. He worked on Season 2 Episodes 6 and 7, as well as The Newsreader, which also stars Sam Reid.
Why is Interview With the Vampire now called The Vampire Lestat?
Creator Rolin Jones announced to fans at San Diego Comic-Con 2025 that Interview With the Vampire has officially been renamed The Vampire Lestat for Season 3. Their reason for the change is the fact that they’re adapting The Vampire Lestat novel in the third season, so they’re calling the show by its book name. They’ll presumably do this if/when they adapt book three in The Vampire Chronicles series, The Queen of the Damned, and so on.
How many episodes are in The Vampire Lestat?
There’s no episode count yet, but Season 1 was seven episodes and Season 2 was eight, so expect a similar episode count for Season 3.
The series hasn’t revealed if it’s covering the entire plot of The Vampire Lestat book in Season 3 or if it’s being split into two parts like Interview With the Vampire, but with the inclusion of characters such as Akasha (Sheila Atim) and Baby Jenks (Ella Ballentine) in Season 3, they’re already starting to bring plot from the next book into the story. Writer/executive producer Hannah Moscovitch also revealed at New York Comic Con 2025 that they’re pulling from book six, The Vampire Armand, as well.
What happens in The Vampire Lestat?
The description for Season 3 reads: “In Season 3, resentful of the perfunctory portrayal in the trashy bestseller Interview With the Vampire, the Vampire Lestat sets his story straight in a way only the Vampire Lestat can — by starting a band and going on tour. Gabrielle. Nicholas. Magnus. Marius. Those Who Must Be Kept. They join Louis, Armand, Molloy, Sam, Raglan, Fareed, and others we can’t tell you about yet on a sexy pilgrimage across space, time, and trauma. No Auto-Tuning. No Trigger Warnings. All Feels Amplified.”
As shown in the rockstar Lestat teaser at SDCC in July 2024, Lestat (Reid) is going to have a brand new look in the third season. Jones shared during the ATX panel that he already has 16 songs from composer Daniel Hart for the musical season, Lestat’s tour will have 50 stops, and Season 3 will pick up around stop 33 on that tour. The tour will be Lestat’s response to Louis (Anderson) and Daniel’s (Eric Bogosian) Interview With the Vampire memoir.
The clapperboard features new key art depicting music notes chaotically clustered and cascading into lines that look ready to fuel a rockstar’s long night of partying. That art is paired with the band’s fang-like VL logo from the rockstar Lestat teaser (get more details on how it was made here).
The clapperboard also reveals that Craig Zisk is directing the Season 3 premiere. Zisk directed Interview With the Vampire Season 2 Episode 1, “What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned,” and Episode 5, “Don’t Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape.” David Tattersall is the cinematographer for the Season 3 premiere. He also worked on the very first episode, plus Episodes 2, 5, and 6 in Season 1 and Season 2 Episodes 3, 4, and 8.
Playing with perspective is a core piece of this show’s design as the vampires reflect on their centuries of existence. Seasons 1 and 2 centered on Louis’ perspective, and now Season 3 will shift to Lestat’s as he tells his life story. With a new vampire at the helm of storytelling will come a new aesthetic for the show’s overall look. Jones told TheWrap in June that “you should imagine that aesthetically, and just the way the show feels and moves will feel like Lestat just hijacked the show. You will not feel like a 148-year-old guy talking to a 78-year-old guy anymore. That’s not happening.”
Louis is still going to play an important role in Season 3. “I’m not putting Jacob Anderson in a corner,” Jones promised in our Season 2 finale interview. “The next turn, center stage, is Lestat, but I don’t think we’re going to be pushing Louis to the side like he is in those books. I don’t think Louis, as we leave him, is going to be this guy who is suffering as much. Actually, I think he’s maybe beginning his legitimate vampire experience there at the end.”
“Don’t worry about it,” Jones added about Louis to TheWrap. “What they should worry about is, if those people expect to see the same show, that’s never gonna happen. We’re going to go just as aggressively, Lestat front and center.”
Louis has new sources of revenue in Season 3. While Anderson can’t say much about Louis’ new business ventures, he told us at New York Comic Con that the vampire has found a way to commodify vampiric existence. In a way, Lestat is doing the same with his music in Season 3. Learn more in our interview with Anderson, Reid, and Moscovitch here.
Who is in The Vampire Lestat cast?
Season 1 focused on Louis, Lestat, and Claudia in New Orleans. Season 2 centered on Louis and Claudia in Paris, along with Armand (Assad Zaman) and his theatrical coven. Louis has been telling the story for the first two seasons. In Season 3, it’s Lestat’s turn, but Louis won’t be absent.
As Jones said he is “not putting Jacob Anderson in a corner,” Johnson added in our same finale interview, “The last line [of Season 2] is Louis saying, ‘I own the night.’ That is not an exit line.”
The Season 3 description says that the characters played by Anderson, Reid, Zaman, Bogosian, Joseph Potter (Nicholas), Justin Kirk (Raglan James, who will be seen in Talamasca Season 1 Episode 4), Bally Gill (Rashid), Chris Geary (Sam Barclay), and Gopal Divan (Dr. Fareed from Season 1) will be in the third season. Additional cast members were announced at San Diego and New York Comic Con.
Delainey Hayles will be back as Claudia (who appears in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment in The Vampire Lestat trailer below). Here’s the rest of the new cast and characters:
The singer Moses Sumney is also featured in the trailer below, but AMC hasn’t revealed who he’s playing. Based on his nails and contact lenses, we know he’s playing a vampire.
Is there an Interview With the Vampire Season 3 trailer?
Yes! The first trailer for The Vampire Lestat was shown to fans in the SDCC 2025 panel audience, and then it was officially released after the NYCC panel in October. In addition to the first looks at Hayles and Zaman and other returning and new characters in Season 3, it shows Louis and Lestat in some kind of legal meeting. Daniel is directing a documentary about rock star Lestat in Season 3, inspired by his memoir of his time with Louis, so the meeting could be about that. But Lestat is just using this time to pick apart information about Louis’ relationship with Armand (the girls are fighting).
The other shows in AMC’s Anne Rice Immortal Universe are Mayfair Witches and The Talamasca. Mayfair Witches Season 2 ended in early March. The Talamasca comes out in 2025.
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