Interview With The Vampire season 3 will be a "pop masterpiece"

Interview With The Vampire, the best show currently on TV, wrapped up its second season in June with a finale so perfect I still worry my life might have peaked when I watched it. And it sounds like fans won't have to wait too terribly long before the show is back. Showrunner Rolin Jones debuted a new teaser at San Deigo Comic-Con this past weekend, featuring the vampire Lestat (Sam Reid) camping it up in full rock star mode, complete with an original song at the end. Watch above!

The upcoming third season will take cues from Anne Rice's book The Vampire Lestat, where Lestat does indeed become a rock star and use his music to reveal secrets about life as a vampire, which royally ticks a lot of blood-suckers around the world. He also wants to set the record straight after the publication of what he considers to be the trashy and inaccurate tell-all Interview With The Vampire, which Daniel Molloy wrote after interviewing Lestat's ex Louis.

I came to really enjoy all of these characters during the first two seasons and can't wait to see them mix it up again, especially if Lestat is going to wear gaudy hair metal outfits and provide his own vocals. “I’m taking a lot of drugs, and they’re flying me around on a private plane and I’m just living like a permanent rock star,” Sam Reid joked during a panel at SDCC, per Variety.

Interview With The Vampire season 3 will adapt The Vampire Lestat (and a bit of Queen of the Damned)

I'm not gonna lie: I like the song at the end of the trailer, "Long Face." Original songs written for TV shows don't have an amazing track record, but I did find myself doing the "ooh ooh ahhh, waaa ahhh" part pretty regularly, so it's doing something right.

Rolin Jones sounds like he may turn the third season into a proper rock opera, which could be amazing or godawful depending. "We're going to do a lot with that and are excited about potentially working with Daniel Hart who's done the music for the first two seasons," he told ComicBook.com. We're going to try to beat Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Rocky Horror. We're about to try to make a little pop masterpiece." Way to come for me where I live.

It won't all be sassy Lestat singing bespoke rock songs. Jones also teased that “there will be story points leading towards the Devil’s [Minion],” referring to a chapter from Anne Rice's book Queen of the Damned where he learns how the vampire Armand turned Daniel Molloy into a bloodsucker. The end of the second season cut ahead in time to reveal he already was one, but we didn't get the details. Soon we will.

How soon? Not soon enough, but the fact that AMC is already debuting this teaser makes me hopeful that we'll see new episodes of Interview With The Vampire before too long. I hope we only have to wait a year this time, rather than the two we waited between seasons 1 and 2.

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