Well, when it came to predicting how Season 1 of The Vampire Lestat would end, I was way, way off.Show creator Rolin Jones went way off-book from Anne Rice's source material, crafting a fascinating, mind-bending finale. While the decapitated Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) had to face his ex-lover Armand (Assad Zaman), Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) had to face the long table and its Failure Finders.Thankfully, both survived their brushes with death. But in the finale's final scene, Lestat reveals the ravaged world sparked by the concert that the episode skipped over. We've got burning questions. But in an interview with Mashable, Reid dropped some hints on what's next for the Interview with the Vampire series. What's coming up in The Vampire Lestat Season 2?
Over a video call with me, Mashable Entertainment Editor Kristy Puchko, Reid noted that the next season of Interview with a Vampire will move beyond Anne Rice's second novel, for which this season was named, The Vampire Lestat. "The way that [the show's writers] pull from the books," Reid explained, "we're not necessarily just doing The Vampire Lestat. We're looking at multiple books here in the overall arc — particularly those next three books." Those would be The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, and Memnoch the Devil. In the first of these, the central narrator conceit is abandoned, as Rice took on the perspective of a variety of characters, including Baby Jenks. The focus of the overall story is the rise of Akasha (Sheila Atim) and the devastation she wreaks upon the world of mortals and immortals alike.
