Interview With a Vampire Fans May Have a Long Wait For Season 2
It's been over a month since the Season 1 finale of Interview With the Vampire on AMC and while fans of the Anne Rice adaptation knew going in that there would be a second season, but it sounds like they will have to wait awhile for that second season to come to screen. Series producer Adam O'Byrne told The Canadian Press (via Toronto Star) that he doesn't anticipate Season 2 arriving until late 2023 or early 2024. Byrne also revealed that the show is expected to film from April to August 2023 with most of the shoot taking place in Prague, the city standing in for Paris.
"My guess is we won't make that window," O'Byrne said of the October release month for Season 1. "That is an AMC call.
O'Byrne also tased that Season 2 — which will dive into the second half of Rice's Interview With the Vampire novel — will see the introduction of more vampires, particularly those from the Theatre des Vampires.
"We're going to get introduced to the vampire Santiago, who is a bit of a malefactor," he said. He went on to say that the series will also introduce Madeline, who in the book was a companion for Claudia. "Her relationship with Claudia is going to be appropriately complicated in the way that it is a real interesting relationship in the book. We've got some great stuff that I think will heighten the Madeline character and make her particularly compelling given the time period that we're looking at."
What to expect in Season 2 of Interview With the Vampire.
Interview With the Vampire ended on a bit of a cliffhanger last month with Lestat (Sam Reid) gravely injured and left for dead by Louis (Jacob Anderson) and Claudia (Bailey Bass) before they headed off to Europe — but there was also a big reveal in the present day when Rashid (Assad Zaman) turned out to be the vampire Armand. Recently, series showrunner Rolin Jones spoke about what fans can expect when the series returns for its second season.
"I can tell you a couple things. The challenge is that in the second half of the book, there's less plot than there is in the first half of the book and there's so much internal dialogue," Jones told AMC's blog. "There are long scenes of people having discussions. What we're finding that's really cool about that is even though it's not giving you a wealth of plot, what it does have are these really big emotional tentpoles. There are big plot moments that we're retaining form it, but there are these emotional moments too within our plot that might be slightly different than what's in the book. I'm feeling really, really excited about that."
He continued, "We're going to Europe and Part 2 of the novel is Episode 1 of Season 2. So, we're going there and we're going to experience that. Then we're going to Paris. We're going to see what coven life is all about, and we have some more time than the movie or even the book. We're continuing to make the interview part of this and just as important as the flashback, in that there are some very active things that are going to be happening in Dubai. Then, more than anything, and we teased it out a little in Season 1, the idea of memory and what is true and what isn't true is a big player in Season 2. It's all going towards, groping towards, who am I? How did I get here? What is to become of me now? There's a lot!"
Anderson also teased what fans could expect from Season 2 of Interview of the Vampire, particularly in terms of Louis' mindset.
"I think it's fair to say that now Louis is not in a particularly good frame of mind in either Dubai or the 1940s," Anderson told AMC on their blog. "And he has some explaining to do in both instances. I'm excited to explore what that betrayal means for his and Claudia's relationship. But also, what this other betrayal means for him and Daniel's relationship. In fact, Daniel has been disrespected. He's been lied to. But Louis' got a lot of explaining to do!"
The first season of Interview With the Vampire is now streaming on AMC+. The second season does not yet have an expected release date.