The Vampire Lestat Hits AMC in June | IGN Fan Fest 2026

What's cooler than vampires? Rockstar vampires. The follow-up bid to Interview with the Vampire gets meta with the Vampire Lestat (Sam Reid) seeking to power his ain communicative by starting a band, and we'll get to spot it hap successful June 2026 erstwhile the bid premieres connected AMC. A caller sneak peek astatine IGN Fan Fest 2026 revealed the date, on with Lestat and Louis being adorable connected FaceTime.

On February 13, we got a coppery sensation of what is to come, with the archetypal authoritative azygous from Lestat de Lioncourt, with Long Face releasing connected Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and more. The way is performed by Reid arsenic Lestat, and written by composer Daniel Hart. AMC besides released a connection from Lestat himself astir the opus and its composer.

"Long Face is the archetypal opus Daniel Hart ‘produced’ for my album. He decided aboriginal connected to bargain wherever helium could from Bowie due to the fact that helium hasn’t had an archetypal thought for 5 years present (is that his Green Knight people fading successful the rear view?). As for Long Face, the bass should person walked down with the guitar astatine the extremity alternatively of pedaling connected E. Predictable. Like everything Daniel Hart touches."

At San Diego Comic Con 2025, the stars of the amusement – Reid, Jacob Anderson (Louis) and Eric Bogosian (Daniel Molloy) – spoke astir the caller play of The Vampire Chronicles, the alteration from the absorption connected Louis to Lestat, and the question betwixt the antithetic eras successful Lestat's life.

"The code of the amusement present is truthful antithetic and it's heightened successful specified a antithetic mode that I deliberation that it's apples and oranges, but they're besides telling the aforesaid story," said Anderson.

"We'll spot a batch of the past," added Reid. "That's benignant of 1 of the joys of the amusement is however jarring those jumps are going from the 1790s into today.

"[Showrunner] Rolin [Jones]'s done a fantastic occupation of integrating the 2 clip periods simultaneously arsenic we spell along," Reid continued. "So it's not rather similar the books wherever you get a spot astatine the opening and a spot astatine the extremity and a full clump successful the middle. It's intertwined done the beauteous songs written by Daniel Hart. So it's a truly really hard publication to adapt, I don't deliberation anyone could person done it amended than Rolin Jones and [executive producer] Hannah Moskovich."

The archetypal Interview with the Vampire caller was published successful 1985 and had its archetypal iconic adaptation with Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and Kirsten Dunst successful 1994. AMC's bid mentation archetypal deed screens successful 2022, and scored a full-blooded 9 successful its IGN review.

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Rachel Weber is the Head of Editorial Development astatine IGN and an elder millennial. She's been a nonrecreational nerd since 2006 erstwhile she got her commencement connected Official PlayStation Magazine successful the UK, and has since worked for GamesIndustry.Biz, Rolling Stone and GamesRadar. She loves horror, fearfulness movies, fearfulness games, Red Dead Redemption 2, and her Love and Deepspace boyfriends.