Interview With The Vampire season 3 starts filming today

When is the third season of Interview With The Vampire coming out? Not soon enough, obviously. Expect new episodes of AMC's vampire drama sometime in 2026. For now, we at least know that the cameras have begun to roll. Hollywood North Buzz reported some time ago that production would officially start in Toronto on June 16. It's June 16. Lestat is back in action.

The cast and crew have been leading up to this for a while. We've already seen glimpses of star Sam Reid rocking on to one of the original songs written for the season:

And yes, there are original songs this season. The first season ended with Daniel Malloy publishing a book about Louis, Lestat's ex, using interviews with Louis himself. The book becomes a hit, but Lestat is offended by what he sees as biased storytelling. He goes about correcting the record in the most Lestat way possible: he gets together a band and writes a bunch of rock songs about his life.

That's loosely the plot of Anne Rice's 1985 book The Vampire Lestat. There will be changes made in the transition from page to screen, but after the excellent job showrunner Rolin Jones and his team did adapting Rice's book Interview With The Vampire over the first two seasons, I'm inclined to give them about as much leeway as it is possible to give a creative time. The idea of Lestate actor Sam Reid, who dripped with charisma in the first two seasons, going full glam rocker for a season that's basically a rock opera is so intriguing that I'm happy to leave any concerns I might have about textual fidelity sealed tight in a coffin. I just want these episodes.

And I'll have them in due time. Like I said, new episodes of Interview With The Vampire are due out sometime next year. In the meanwhile, AMC hopes to keep Interview fans entertained with The Talamasca: The Secret Order, a spinoff show about the shadowy organization that keeps tabs of vampires, witches, and all other things supernatural in what AMC is calling Anne Rice's Dark Universe. There's already been one quasi-spinoff of Interview With The Vampire: Mayfair Witches, which if I'm being honest I don't think is quite equal to the original show. But the Talamasca series will have Jason Schwartzman in it, so they're doing their best to make an impression.

The Talamasca: The Secret Order will premiere this October on AMC.

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