Summary
- Season 3 of Interview with the Vampire introduces a new rockumentary aesthetic, hinting at major changes in the storyline adaptation.
- Daniel's mysterious coughing fit in the trailer raises questions about the timeline and lore of the vampire world in the season.
- Lestat's control over Daniel's physical reaction to a question in the trailer hints at a deeper relationship and potential conflict between the characters.
biggest trailer drops at SDCC, the trailer shows off Interview with the Vampire season 3's new rockumentary aesthetic, in line with the storyline of the book it is adapting - The Vampire Lestat. The second book in The Vampire Chronicles, this novel followed Lestat becoming a rock star. Daniel is interviewing Lestat in the trailer when he starts coughing.
Daniel didn't interview Lestat in the books, but this move keeps Eric Bogosian's mercurial Daniel where he should be - front and center. It also doesn't change the meaning of the book - Lestat will tell his side of the story in the show, just like he did in the book. Daniel's coughing fit after he asks Lestat a question in the trailer raises important questions about Interview with the Vampire season 3. Armand made Daniel a vampire at the end of season 2, imbuing him with superhuman health and strength, effectively saving him from Parkinson's, so his ill health is mysterious.
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Maybe Daniel Interviewed Lestat Before Armand Made Him A Vampire
Season 3 Will Reveal The Real Order Of Events
Interview with the Vampire season 2 ended with the shock revelation that was the vampire Daniel Molloy, but perhaps Daniel's ill health in the season 3 trailer is taking place prior to his turning. Book readers may not have been expecting the vampire Daniel until seasons 3 or 4, if at all. The development promised more inclusion of Daniel's canonical storyline with Armand, although Armand turned Daniel at the end of this storyline. Since the show is playing fast and loose with canonical timelines, it could reveal that Daniel is still human during the events of the trailer.
It's not clear what happened at the end of season 2 in Dubai, after Louis and Armand argued and Louis left. It's uncertain how much time elapsed between these events and Armand turning Daniel "out of spite". In the last few scenes of season 2, clearly a long time has ed since Louis and Armand's argument in Dubai, because Daniel has had enough time to polish Louis' story and get it published. That could have taken months, and Daniel could have interviewed Lestat as an ailing human in this time, which may be what the season 3 trailer shows.
Interview With The Vampire Season 3 Could Change Vampire Lore
The Vampire Daniel Molloy Could Be Ill
Becoming a vampire in The Vampire Chronicles leads to immortality and its related suite of superhuman abilities, but maybe Daniel is still suffering from Parkinsons's or some kind of unknown vampire illness in the trailer. If the season 3 trailer does follow chronologically on from the last events shown in season 2, Daniel is already a vampire at this point, but perhaps becoming a vampire didn't cure him completely. Parkinson's couldn't kill him as a vampire, but perhaps season 3 will explore the dangers of turning someone "out of spite" - badly, cruelly, haphazardly, or incorrectly.
Interview with the Vampire season 3 is expected to come out at some point in 2025.
Becoming a vampire does have a healing power. Armand turned Daniel in the books to save him from madness, and the show seems to be following this logic too, as Lestat and Louis turned Claudia in the show to save her from her burns. If the vampire Daniel is still ailing, perhaps the show will be altering this lore to have Daniel still suffering from some symptoms of Parkinson's, or some kind of mutated vampire version of this illness. The books suggest that poorly made vampires may become zombie-like beasts - perhaps Armand turned Daniel incorrectly with this spiteful intention.
Lestat Is Likely Choking Daniel In The Interview With The Vampire Season 3 Trailer
The Real Reason For Daniel's Coughing Fit Is In Font Of Him
The sadism of Armand turning Daniel into a botched vampire seems cruel, even for him, leaving the most likely explanation for Daniel's coughing fit right in front of him. If parts of Daniel and Armand's "Devil's Minion" storyline is in the show, as Jones mentioned it would be to TheWrap, any spite from Armand to Daniel probably wouldn't extend as far as condemning him to zombiehood. Lestat, on the other hand, is more than capable of spite towards Daniel.
Just as the interview starts in the Interview with the Vampire season 3 trailer, Daniel asks Lestat what he thinks of his book, Interview with the Vampire, the write-up of his incendiary interview with Louis. Although more nuanced than his portrayal of Lestat in the '70s when he first spoke to Daniel, Louis' tell-all in this book still paints a challenging portrait of Lestat. In canon, Lestat was displeased with the book. It looks like Lestat's response to Daniel's question is telepathically making him cough and retch, telling Daniel all he needs to know about his feelings on the book.
Interview with the Vampire seasons 1 and 2 are available to stream on AMC+ and season 1 will be available on Netflix from August 19.
Lestat is known to have a wide range of vampiric gifts, which seasons 1 and 2 started exploring. Lestat is more than capable of controlling the bodies of others, as seen in season 1 when he walked a whole team of soldiers out of his home via mind control. Lestat's season 3 story will see him embracing the 21st century as a rock and roll diva, and he was a diva even before that, so choking Daniel to answer an interview question, in reasonably good humor, seems as Lestat as it comes.
Sources: TheWrap
Interview with the Vampire
- Release Date
- October 2, 2022
- Network
- AMC
- Showrunner
- Mark Johnson
Cast
Jacob Anderson
Sam Reid
WHERE TO WATCH
Based on Anne Rice's novel series that began in 1976, Interview with the Vampire is a gothic horror fantasy series that explores the life of Louis de Pointe du Lac through an interview with a journalist. Told through flashbacks of Louis' life during the interview, the series examines Louis' relationship with the vampire that turned him, Lestat de Lioncourt, and a teenage girl named Claudia, whom he turns. The series is the first of Anne Rice's Immortal Universe media franchise.
- Writers
- Rolin Jones
- Seasons
- 2
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