Australian actor Sam Reid has been tapped to star as Lestat in Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire series for AMC and AMC+.
The series, based on Rice’s book, is slated to begin production on its eight-episode first season later this year for premiere on AMC and its sister streamer AMC+ in 2022.The book was famously turned into a 1994 movie starring Tom Cruise, who played Lestat, and Brad Pitt who portrayed Louis.Rolin Jones, who co-created and served as showrunner for the first season of HBO’s Perry Mason, is the creator, writer and showrunner of Interview with the Vampire.
Jones, who has an overall deal with AMC Studios, will executive produce alongside Mark Johnson, Anne and Christopher Rice.AMC ordered the series in June after
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