AMC Networks has released a second trailer for the upcoming second season of the critically acclaimed series, Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, which is set to premiere on May 12, 2024 on AMC and AMC+. The trailer was released during the season finale episode of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.
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The Network has also released the first of a series of key art images for the highly anticipated return of the series. Sam Reid, Eric Bogosian, Assad Zaman, Delainey Hayles, Ben Daniels, and Jacob Anderson are set to make their return/appearances this season. Check out the riveting new trailer below:
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE CONTINUES IN SEASON 2
In 2022, the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (Anderson) recounts his life story to journalist Daniel Molloy (Bogosian). After the bloody events that occurred in New Orleans in 1940, Louis tells of his adventures in Europe, a quest to discover Old World Vampires, and the Theatre Des Vampires in Paris with Claudia (Hayles). Louis first meets the Vampire Armand (Zaman) and their courtship and love affair will prove to have devastating consequences both in the past and the future.
Just from the trailer alone, it looks like things are about to become intense for the protagonist. The Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt (Reid) will once again make his appearance in the second season as one of the key players in the Theatre Des Vampires. In the book series, Louis and Claudia encounter the troupe of vampires while attending a performance. The story was later expanded in The Vampire Lestat where Lestat is employed as an actor at the theater during his mortal years.
Once he was transformed into a vampire, the vampire purchased the theater. He then discovers a few vampires living together as a coven in the catacombs below the Cemetery of the Innocents and brings them into the theater to protect them from their leader, Armand.
Though the theater is a fictional place, there has been speculation that Rice took inspiration from Théâtre Grande Guignol. It was founded in the mid-1890s and it held performances until the late 1960’s. Théâtre Grande Guingol was famous for its horror plays, using characters and situations that many might find in real life rather than monsters or ghosts. The plays were horrific in the sense that many people who witnessed them believed that the performances were real. Even though it was horrific to watch, it attracted and fascinated many theatergoers for many years.
It will be interesting to see how the series will be able to portray the infamous Theatre de Vampires in the series and from what has been shown so far with the characters and the scenery, stakes are high and secrets will be revealed.
All About Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire Season 2
Release Date: May 12, 2024
Network: AMC and AMC+
Franchise: Immortal Universe
Showrunner: Mark Johnson
Writers: Rolin Jones, Christopher Rice, and the late Anne Rice
Cast: Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Eric Bogosian, Bailey Bass, Assad Zaman, Delainey Hayles and Ben Daniels
Synopsis: In the year 2022, the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (Anderson) recounts his life story to journalist Daniel Molloy (Bogosian). Picking up from the bloody events in New Orleans in 1940 when Louis and teen fledgling Claudia (Hayles) conspired to kill the Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt (Reid), Louis tells of his adventures in Europe, a quest to discover Old World Vampires and the Theatre Des Vampires in Paris, with Claudia. It is in Paris that Louis first meets the Vampire Armand (Zaman). Their courtship and love affair will prove to have devastating consequences both in the past and in the future, and Molloy will probe to get to the truths buried within the memories.
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SOURCE: AMC Network
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