On Friday during AMC‘s The Vampire Lestat Hall H session at Comic-Con, it was announced that Anne Rice‘s Interview with the Vampire anthology is getting a fourth season, titled Anne Rice’sQueen of the Damned.The crowd erupted after the teaser above was dropped
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The renewal closely follows Sunday’s finale of Season 3’s Vampire Lestat, which teased the return of Queen of the Damnedprotagonist Akasha
Queen of the Damnedis the third novel in Rice’s Vampire Chroniclesfollowing Interview With the Vampireand The Vampire Lestat
Anne Rice’sQueen of the Damned will be executive produced and showrun by Hannah Moscovitch, along with executive producers Mark Johnson and Rolin Jones. The trio were on today’s Lestatpanel along with series stars Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian and Sheila Atim
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Moscovitch was a writer on the first two seasons of Interview with the Vampire and an executive producer on Vampire Lestat, for which she specifically wrote the Akasha and Gabriella characters. Her previous credits include the play Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes for which she received the 2021 Governor General’s Award for English-language drama, and the Crave TV miniseries Little Bird
“In The Vampire Lestat, Mark, Rolin, Hannah and this extraordinary cast delivered an unforgettable season filled with propulsive storytelling that captivated the passionate and engaged fans of this franchise,” said Dan McDermott, Chief Content Officer of AMC Global Media and President of AMC Studios. “We can’t wait to continue the journey with Queen of the Damned, one of the most iconic stories in Anne Rice’s mythology, and watch our established and beloved characters confront Akasha with their world, and ours, very much hanging in the balance.”
Following the feature success of the Tom Cruise-Brad Pitt combo The Interview of the Vampirein 1994 which grossed over $223 million at the box office, Warner Bros tried to make Queen of the Damned in 2002 with Aaliyah as Akasha and Stuart Townsend stepping in as Lestat. The picture didn’t work, grossing only $45M. Vampire Lestatthe TV series is one of the year’s highest rated on Rotten Tomatoes
During today’s panel, Johnson spoke about the penultimate episode, which saw Armand and Daniel Molly behead Louis and Lestat during a violent confrontation at the park
Johnson said, “Who takes a pen over an episode and decapitates the two leads? It’s unheard of. And yet, I would love to say I saw this all coming.”
Anderson quipped about his severed head performance as Louis. “It’s not the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life of acting,” he said. “What happened? How do you speak? How do you breathe?… It wasn’t like some hokum science.”
Queen of the Damnedis also EP’ed by the late Rice
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