INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Character Details Tease Some Major Changes To Anne Rice's Classic Tale

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Character Details Tease Some Major Changes To Anne Rice's Classic Tale

Some new character details on AMC's upcoming Interview With The Vampire series have come to light, and it sounds like this adaptation is going to make some big changes to Anne Rice's beloved novel...

By MarkCassidy - May 30, 2021 06:05 AM EST
Filed Under: Horror

It's been a while since we had any updates on AMC's planned Interview With The Vampire adaptation, but some new details have now been shared online, and it sounds like the series is going to take some pretty big liberties with the source material.

According to The Illuminerdi, this take on Anne Rice's beloved novel "will follow Daniel Malloy, an award-winning investigative journalist who takes this second chance to report one of the most significant stories of his career. Daniel travels to the other side of the world to interview the 146-year-old vampire, Louis De Pointe Du Lac."

While this may sound pretty close to what happens in the original story, the character breakdowns suggest that this series will actually take place years after the events of the book.

For one, AMC is said to be searching for a 60-70-year-old man of open ethnicity to play Daniel Malloy (played by Christian Slater in Neil Jordan's 1994 film), who is described as "slight, but with a huge chip on his shoulder. Malloy is a two-time Pulitzer prize winning investigator journalist who works for the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and The Guardian." This will be Malloy's second opportunity to interview Louis after "his drug use inhibited his professionalism" the first time.

Louis, meanwhile, is described as a former brothel owner looking for the chance to tell his "true tale." He's said to be “Creole, with eyes of brilliant green. His skin is smooth, as if sculpted from Ceylon ebony.” A "33-year-old Black man" is being sought for the role.

Some of these changes may not seem particularly significant on their own, but Interview With The Vampire is just the first book in a sprawling saga, so setting this series years later (essentially making it a retconned sequel) would seem to discount some major events in the lives of these characters.

Interview With The Vampire will reportedly consist of 8 one-hour episodes. Jessica Held and Mark Johnson will produce, with Rolin Jones developing and writing the show. The adaptation is scheduled to begin production in November 2021 in New Orleans, Paris, and Eastern Europe.

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nonserviam
nonserviam - 5/30/2021, 6:22 AM
I thought this was supposed to be a series based off the whole Vampire Chronicles book series... I understand changing some things here and there, but Daniel ends up being a semi-important character in a couple of the books, where he IS A vampire, so why would they want a 70+ year old man?
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 5/30/2021, 7:27 AM
@nonserviam - It was always really disappointing for me that they never did the whole Vampire Chronicles of movies. They combined The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned to make that movie, but that was such drivel. It was no where near the same level as Interview with the Vampire, and it flushed any chances at further sequels straight down the toilet.
abd00bie
abd00bie - 5/30/2021, 2:13 PM
@TyrantBossMedia - The fossil could see the furnishings.. lol
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 5/30/2021, 7:21 AM
I'm really torn on this. The original movie was a masterpiece and might be, pound for pound, the best vampire movie ever made. Bram Stoker's Dracula is probably the only other one that can even hold a candle to Interview.

I also read the novels back in the day, so I'm really not sure about the direction this sounds like its going in. I'm honestly not very sure what the point of this series is, either. The movie still holds up beautifully and its also pretty faithful to the source, for the most part. And you just can't get a better cast. So.....why? Unless they are just going to butcher it, which it sounds like they will.
connorblaze
connorblaze - 5/30/2021, 7:30 AM
Haha sounds like the modern Hollywood formula. Can imagine the pitch meeting. “We redo *beloved property* and we remake it crap. But! *key character* is black. Gamechanger.

Does make me chuckle though that the casting description is all anout ‘smooth skin like carved ebony’ and all that, because when I remember reading Anne Rice I mostly recall a lot of subtle homoeroticism and a lot of descriptions of how pale everyone is. And I got duped into reading the first Twilight book just before it took off and became big when I worked at a book shop as I headd it was a cool vampire story (lol) and I swear it’s just a whole book of the peotagonist gushing about how ‘pale and smooth and smoothly pale and carved in marble and just shoot me’ Eddie was. How you make a whole book about someone’s skin without it being a Silence of the Lambs thing I don’t know.
Spike101
Spike101 - 5/30/2021, 7:53 AM
Why oh why take a perfectly good story and the screw with it? If the director doesn’t like the story then don’t use it, write another one. I really hate it was these idiots think they need to mess with a fabulous story because they know better...
Repian
Repian - 5/30/2021, 8:27 AM
Joe Pantoliano to play Daniel Malloy.
Gmoney84
Gmoney84 - 5/30/2021, 8:57 AM
They better not [frick] this up. Some of my favorite books ever.
Eli
Eli - 5/30/2021, 9:06 AM
The first three books are an epic trilogy. Great reading and universe building. Virtually every fresh aspect of the modern vampire genre comes from these books. Unfortunately, they have never been adapted to film or TV in a way that captures the sheer brilliance of Anne Rice's books.
OmegaBlack13
OmegaBlack13 - 5/30/2021, 9:12 AM
I can’t see present day hollywood leaning into the sheer eroticism here but we’ll see.
inkniron
inkniron - 5/30/2021, 10:19 AM
Rice's novels were very progressive and inclusive, especially in the time they were written. This kind of change makes very little sense.
Kokejazz
Kokejazz - 5/30/2021, 11:03 AM
It could be nice to keep those characters the way they were imagined by the author. Then you can add a more diversified cast as long as you expand their world right?
blitzkreg
blitzkreg - 5/30/2021, 12:13 PM
The Brad Pitt/ Tom Cruise movie was a Hoot ! Kirsten Dunst/ Claudia really stole that movie
moeron
moeron - 5/30/2021, 12:56 PM
Why in God's green earth is this even happening? Why can't Hollywood come up with new ideas anymore? It's remake after remake after remake. There are just certain classics that should be left alone. Jaws for example, you can't improve on the original so why bother? It's just a lazy money grab...so disappointing. I don't know what Hollywood would be doing for material if it wasn't for the comic book/graphic novel industry and their infinite stories.
PapaSpank54
PapaSpank54 - 5/30/2021, 1:32 PM
If you can come up with a more compelling story by making a caucasian character a person of color, I say go for it. Some characters work better when you "race-swap" them- I love white Nick Fury in 616 but Sam Jackson brings his own thing to the role while still maintaining the essence of Fury, for instance. I still have decades of Honkey Fury, but I love MCU Fury as well. There's room for endless interpretations of characters.
TheWarThor
TheWarThor - 5/30/2021, 2:49 PM
This really annoys me! Daniel is one of my favourite characters in the book. I loved his story in The Queen of the Damned, and yet again the story is being torn to shreds.
I wish Neil Jordan had made The Vampire Lestat. Such an amazing book...
solskulldeath
solskulldeath - 5/30/2021, 7:12 PM
"Malloy is a two-time Pulitzer prize-winning investigator journalist who works for the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and The Guardian."

Oh, someone has defeat Lois Lane as the Pulitzer prize-winning more than once!
Demigods
Demigods - 6/1/2021, 8:21 AM
Do they know Louis' backstory?
They should probably make Lestat straight then.

[frick]ing stupid [frick]ing woke hollywood morons. Jeezus they're [frick]ing stupid. Why? just [frick]ing why.

I'm okay with saying they don't care who they cast as the reporter, because they're not specifically looking to rewrite a character for the role. He's a modern reporter. They're just looking for an actor who will fit that role. If that actor is black, white, latin-x, first world, or of middle eastern descent, then so be it. Great, because he's a modern day journalist.

But they should totally cast the French slave owning plantation aristocratic vampire as a black man, because.... woke. That's [frick]ing why.

I'm out.

Louis is a white French dude. Lestate is a white sexually fluid aristocrat. If you change the source material then, [frick] off.
REDWAVE761
REDWAVE761 - 6/1/2021, 8:42 AM
"33-year-old Black man" SATY WOKE.....GO BROKE.... -ANNE RICE
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