Interview with a Vampire TV Series

......Recently, Reid participated in a panel for the Summer TCA press tour (via The Wrap), and spoke about how the upcoming series differs from the first attempt at bringing Interview With the Vampire to the screen. Admitting that he “love[d] what Tom Cruise did as Lestat,” Reid suggests that the series has “a much broader scale” than the original film. The actor emphasized that the AMC show would be "different." Check out his comments below:

I love that movie. And I’ve always loved the work of Anne Rice, so I was very excited to be a part of reigniting it. As a fan of the books, I was excited about the fact that it was going to be made at all, and what we do in this adaptation, in this version of the ‘Interview with the Vampire’ is look at an entire series of books because when that film came out, she was still writing them so they didn’t have perspective of the entire work.
And so when we’re looking at character arcs, we’re looking at a much broader scale. So yeah, it’s valid and I love what Tom Cruise did as Lestat, and I think he should be loved and remembered for that role. And so I’m never trying to touch that. It’s a huge honor to take on this extraordinary part created by Anne, but we are doing a different show. We are actually looking at all of her books. So it is a different feeling than what that 1994 film did.

The most promising thing about Reid’s comments is the assertion that the AMC series will consider the broader narrative of Rice’s expansive world. Despite receiving positive reviews and performing well at the box office, the 1994 Interview With The Vampire would largely stand alone as a single story, leaving the great wealth of Rice’s other connected works untouched.

It would take another eight years before fans would return to Rice's world in Queen of the Damned, which was released to far less acclaim and was later dismissed by the author herself. This latest adaptation now has the benefit of being able to draw from the entire catalog of The Vampire Chronicles books...........

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