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The Vampire Lestat<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>has wrapped filming in Toronto as of Friday, October 24. Executive producer Mark Johnson<\/a> said at the Talamasca: The Secret Order<\/em><\/a> 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<\/a>?<\/p>\n Here, we\u2019re breaking down all of the latest updates on the follow-up to Interview With the Vampire<\/em>\u2018s critically acclaimed seasons.<\/p>\n An exact premiere date has not been announced, but it will come out in 2026. Jacob Anderson<\/a> teased in an interview with Screen Rant<\/a> at San Diego Comic-Con this summer that it\u2019s premiering in April, but that remains unconfirmed, so take it with a grain of salt.<\/p>\n The show\u2019s account tweeted, \u201cProduction has begun\u201d 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\u2019s 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<\/em>, which also stars Sam Reid<\/a>.<\/p>\n Creator Rolin Jones announced to fans at San Diego Comic-Con 2025 that Interview With the Vampire\u00a0<\/em>has officially been renamed The Vampire Lestat<\/em> for Season 3. Their reason for the change is the fact that they\u2019re adapting\u00a0The Vampire Lestat<\/em> novel in the third season, so they\u2019re calling the show by its book name. They\u2019ll presumably do this if\/when they adapt book three in The Vampire Chronicles<\/em> series, The Queen of the Damned<\/em>, and so on.<\/p>\n There\u2019s no episode count yet, but Season 1 was seven episodes and Season 2 was eight, so expect a similar episode count for Season 3.<\/p>\n The series hasn\u2019t revealed if it\u2019s covering the entire plot of\u00a0The Vampire Lestat<\/em> book in Season 3 or if it\u2019s being split into two parts like\u00a0Interview With the Vampire<\/em>, but with the inclusion of characters such as Akasha (Sheila Atim) and Baby Jenks (Ella Ballentine) in Season 3, they\u2019re 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\u2019re pulling from book six, The Vampire Armand<\/em>, as well.<\/p>\n The description for Season 3 reads: \u201cIn Season 3, resentful of the perfunctory portrayal in the trashy bestseller Interview With the Vampire<\/em>, the Vampire Lestat sets his story straight in a way only the Vampire Lestat can \u2014 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\u2019t tell you about yet on a sexy pilgrimage across space, time, and trauma. No Auto-Tuning. No Trigger Warnings. All Feels Amplified.\u201d<\/p>\n As shown in the rockstar Lestat teaser<\/a> 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<\/a> for the musical season, Lestat\u2019s tour will have 50 stops<\/a>, and Season 3 will pick up around stop 33 on that tour. The tour will be Lestat\u2019s response to Louis (Anderson) and Daniel\u2019s (Eric Bogosian<\/a>) Interview With the Vampire<\/em> memoir.<\/p>\n The clapperboard features new key art depicting music notes chaotically clustered and cascading into lines that look ready to fuel a rockstar\u2019s long night of partying. That art is paired with the band\u2019s fang-like VL logo from the rockstar Lestat teaser (get more details on how it was made here<\/a>).<\/p>\n The clapperboard also reveals that Craig Zisk is directing the Season 3 premiere. Zisk directed Interview With the Vampire<\/em> Season 2 Episode 1, \u201cWhat Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned<\/a>,\u201d and Episode 5, \u201cDon\u2019t Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape<\/a>.\u201d 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.<\/p>\n Playing with perspective is a core piece of this show\u2019s design as the vampires reflect on their centuries of existence. Seasons 1 and 2 centered on Louis\u2019 perspective, and now Season 3 will shift to Lestat\u2019s as he tells his life story. With a new vampire at the helm of storytelling will come a new aesthetic for the show\u2019s overall look. Jones told TheWrap<\/a> in June that \u201cyou 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\u2019s not happening.\u201d<\/p>\n Louis is still going to play an important role in Season 3. \u201cI\u2019m not putting Jacob Anderson in a corner,\u201d Jones promised in our Season 2 finale interview<\/a>. \u201cThe next turn, center stage,\u00a0is<\/em> Lestat, but I don\u2019t think we\u2019re going to be pushing Louis to the side like he is in those books. I don\u2019t think Louis, as we leave him, is going to be this guy who is suffering as much. Actually, I think he\u2019s maybe beginning his legitimate vampire experience there at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t worry about it,\u201d Jones added about Louis to TheWrap. \u201cWhat they should worry about is, if those people expect to see the same show, that\u2019s never gonna happen. We\u2019re going to go just as aggressively, Lestat front and center.\u201d<\/p>\n Louis has new sources of revenue in Season 3. While Anderson can\u2019t say much about Louis\u2019 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n 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<\/a>) and his theatrical coven. Louis has been telling the story for the first two seasons. In Season 3, it\u2019s Lestat\u2019s turn, but Louis won\u2019t be absent<\/a>.<\/p>\n As Jones said he is \u201cnot putting Jacob Anderson in a corner,\u201d Johnson added in our same finale interview, \u201cThe last line [of Season 2] is Louis saying, \u2018I own the night.\u2019 That is not<\/em>\u00a0an exit line.\u201d<\/p>\n The Season 3 description says that the characters played by Anderson, Reid, Zaman,\u00a0Bogosian, Joseph Potter<\/a> (Nicholas), Justin Kirk<\/a> (Raglan James, who will be seen in Talamasca<\/em> Season 1 Episode 4<\/a>), Bally Gill<\/a> (Rashid), Chris Geary<\/a> (Sam Barclay), and Gopal Divan<\/a> (Dr. Fareed from Season 1) will be in the third season. Additional cast members were announced at San Diego<\/a> and New York Comic Con<\/a>.<\/p>\n Delainey Hayles<\/a> will be back as Claudia (who appears in a blink-and-you\u2019ll-miss-it moment in The Vampire Lestat<\/em> trailer below). Here\u2019s the rest of the new cast and characters:<\/p>\n The singer Moses Sumney<\/a> is also featured in the trailer below, but AMC hasn\u2019t revealed who he\u2019s playing. Based on his nails and contact lenses, we know he\u2019s playing a vampire.<\/p>\n Yes! The first trailer for The Vampire Lestat<\/em> 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\u2019 relationship with Armand (the girls are fighting).<\/p>\n The other shows in AMC\u2019s Anne Rice Immortal Universe are\u00a0Mayfair Witches<\/em><\/a> and\u00a0The Talamasca<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0Mayfair Witches\u00a0<\/em>Season 2 ended in early March.\u00a0The Talamasca<\/em> comes out in 2025.<\/p>\nWhen does The Vampire Lestat\u00a0<\/em>premiere?<\/h2>\n
Why is Interview With the Vampire <\/em>now called The Vampire Lestat<\/em>?<\/h2>\n
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Is there an\u00a0Interview With the Vampire<\/em> Season 3 trailer?<\/h2>\n