Anne Rice’s The Vampire Lestat Sinks Its Teeth Into AMC This June
AMC and AMC+ are unleashing The Vampire Lestat this June, the bloodthirsty continuation of Interview with the Vampire.
AMC finally put a date on its blood-slick runway: The Vampire Lestat — essentially Interview with the Vampire season 3 — kicks off June 7 on AMC and AMC+. It has been more than a year and a half since the network said the next chapter would jump from Louis and Armand’s saga into the second Anne Rice novel, and now we’ve got a day to circle. AMC also dropped the season’s opening title sequence, which sets the tone: decadent, theatrical, and very Lestat.
What this season actually is
The new run pivots straight into The Vampire Lestat, where our favorite agent of chaos decides the best way to correct his reputation from that bestseller you may have heard of is to tell his own story — loudly. And by loudly, I mean he forms a rock band and goes on tour. Yes, really. If your brain just flashed to the 2002 Queen of the Damned movie (which mashed up Lestat’s second and third books) and the voice of Korn’s Jonathan Davis, you’re in the right neighborhood. The series is sticking with that era of Lestat’s mythology, and it’s not shy about it.
"No Auto-Tuning. No Trigger Warnings. All Feels Amplified."
The official setup teases Lestat correcting the record "by starting a band and going on tour," while pulling in key figures from his past and present — Gabrielle, Nicholas, Magnus, Marius, and Those Who Must Be Kept — alongside familiar faces like Louis, Armand, Molloy, Sam, Raglan, and Fareed, plus a few names they’re keeping under wraps.
The cast (and who is playing who)
- Sam Reid returns as Lestat de Lioncourt
- Jacob Anderson returns as Louis de Pointe du Lac
- Assad Zaman returns as Armand
- Jennifer Ehle as Gabrielle
- Christopher Heyerdahl as Marius
- Damien Atkins as Magnus
- Ella Ballentine as Baby Jenks
- Jeanine Serralles as Christine Claire
- Sheila Atim as Akasha, Queen of the Damned (a major swing)
- Noah Reid as Larry
- Ryan Kattner as Salamander
- Seamus Patterson as Alex
- Sarah Swire as TC
That Akasha casting is the headline grabber. Bringing the Queen of the Damned into play signals how far this season plans to roam across the saga.
Who is steering the coffin
Alan Taylor, who helmed The Many Saints of Newark, executive produces and directed the first two episodes of Interview with the Vampire, setting the show’s original visual language. Mark Johnson (yes, the veteran of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul) is the franchise architect for AMC’s expanding Vampire Chronicles world. Rolin Jones (Perry Mason) created the series, runs the room, and writes, and executive produces alongside Johnson and Taylor. Christopher Rice also executive produces, and the late Anne Rice receives an executive producer credit.
The vibe
Expect a glossy, thorny road trip through Lestat’s origin story and his very public midlife crisis — guitars, grief, ego, immortality. The network is promising a maximalist mood and some deep-lore drop-ins for longtime readers. The title sequence release today leans into that operatic rock-god energy. Honestly, that’s the lane this character was built for.
The Vampire Lestat premieres June 7 on AMC and AMC+. I’m in for the mess and the music. You?