Lestat’s Rock Star Era Officially Arrives in New 'Interview With the Vampire' Trailer

Anne Rice‘s Immortal Universe is about to undergo a rocking transformation. In just under two months, on June 9, Interview with the Vampire will return to AMC and AMC+ for Season 3 with a new name to celebrate a new era — The Vampire Lestat‘s era. Based on the second book in Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles series, it’ll shift the perspective to that of Sam Reid‘s charismatic blood-sucker as he leaves New Orleans behind to begin his new chapter as the first-ever immortal rock star on a multi-city tour that will never be forgotten. With his interview opposite Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian), he’ll look to both set the record straight and set hearts ablaze with his tale that’s both electric and haunting.

Ahead of the premiere, AMC has now officially pulled back the curtain with a full trailer showing exactly what to expect from Lestat’s big spotlight. He has a lot to offer Daniel, having seen everything from the French Revolution to the atomic bomb, but for now, he wants to focus on his era. Lestat hit his prime on the stage, drawing thousands of adoring fans as he rocked out to both original tunes and classics like Billy Idol‘s “Dancing with Myself” as heard in the footage. However, he was never satisfied, seeking to draw not just millions, but billions to his shows, all in the name of rewriting the book on who he is. What he may instead find, however, is a bloody reckoning as he’s haunted by the “muses” of his past and his own immortality comes back to bite him.

The new teaser makes one thing certain above all else: This will be IWTV‘s most explosive season to date. Now sitting in the spot once occupied by his former lover, Louis (Jacob Anderson), he’ll be forced to confront his actions in addition to his heights as a rock god. AMC has gone all out for the occasion, too. Already, AMC Global Media and Lakeshore Records have released two very real singles from the fictional artist’s catalog, “Long Face” and “All Fall Down,” sung by Reid himself and with lyrics and music by the show’s composer, Daniel Hart. Both can be found on the official Vampire Lestat artist page on major digital music platforms, with new tracks rolling out throughout the coming months that will further shape his musical legacy.



















Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz
Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving?
Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky

Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you’re not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one.

🏕️Jason

🔪Michael

💤Freddy

🎈Pennywise

🪆Chucky

01

Something feels wrong. You can’t explain it — you just know. What do you do?
First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty.





02

Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong?
Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply.





03

What is your most reliable survival asset?
Every survivor has a quality the villain didn’t account for. What’s yours?





04

What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through?
Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it.





05

You’re with a group when things start going wrong. What’s your role?
Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn’t.





06

What’s the horror movie mistake you’re most likely to make?
Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not.





07

What’s your best weapon against something that can’t be stopped by conventional means?
Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it.





08

It’s the final scene. You’re the last one standing. How did you make it?
The final survivor always has a reason. What’s yours?





Your Survival Odds Have Been Calculated
Your Best Chance Is Against…

Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.


Camp Crystal Lake · Friday the 13th

Jason Voorhees

Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.

  • He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn’t strategise, doesn’t adapt, doesn’t outsmart. He simply pursues.
  • Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge.
  • The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance.
  • You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected.


Haddonfield, Illinois · Halloween

Michael Myers

Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.

  • But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound.
  • Michael’s power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is.
  • Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had.
  • You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it.


Elm Street · A Nightmare on Elm Street

Freddy Krueger

Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.

  • You are harder to destabilise than most. You’ve faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven’t looked away.
  • The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it.
  • Freddy’s greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on.
  • Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here.


Derry, Maine · It

Pennywise

Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.

  • The Losers Club didn’t survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly.
  • You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away.
  • That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise’s worst nightmare.
  • It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all.


Chicago · Child’s Play

Chucky

Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.

  • You don’t have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance.
  • Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone.
  • Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing.
  • Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing.

Who Else Is Involved in ‘The Vampire Lestat’?

A new chapter for Lestat will also surely mean a new phase in his love-hate relationship with Louis, something further affected by the vampire’s new rockstar lifestyle. In addition to Reid, Bogosian, and Anderson, though, The Vampire Lestat will also feature the talents of Assad Zaman, Delainey Hayles, and Jennifer Ehle. Creator, writer, and showrunner Rolin Jones is back at the helm after steering the series to two acclaimed seasons that brought Rice’s first book to life. With influences drawn from David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, and even Jim Morrison, Lestat’s era is bound to be big, loud, and unlike anything seen in the romantic, fantastical gothic horror series so far.

Interview with the Vampire Season 3, The Vampire Lestat, premieres on June 7. Check out the trailer in the player above.


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Release Date

October 2, 2022

Network

AMC

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