‘The Vampire Lestat’ Will Return for Season 4 With the ‘Queen of the Damned’

At The Vampire Lestat‘s Hall H panel at San Diego Comic Con, it was finally announced that we would see what happened after the disastrous season finale of season three of The Vampire Lestat. Since the launch of this season’s successful “rebrand” of the show, fans have been wondering if they would get to see what happens next for our favorite vampires. The wait, thankfully, is finally over.

The fourth season is to be titled Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned. The news was announced during its Comic-Con International Hall H panel for The Vampire Lestat featuring series executive producers Mark Johnson and Hannah Moscovitch and castmates Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, and Sheila Atim. This renewal comes on the heels of Sunday’s season three finale, called The Vampire Lestat, which is among the highest rated TV shows of the year on Rotten Tomatoes and currently streaming exclusively on AMC+. Based on the beloved novel, Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned will be executive produced and showrun by Moscovitch, along with executive producers Johnson and Rolin Jones.

“In The Vampire Lestat, Mark, Rolin, Hannah and this extraordinary cast delivered an unforgettable season filled with propulsive storytelling that captivated the passionate and engaged fans of this franchise,” said Dan McDermott, Chief Content Officer of AMC Global Media and President of AMC Studios. “We can’t wait to continue the journey with Queen of the Damned, one of the most iconic stories in Anne Rice’s mythology, and watch our established and beloved characters confront Akasha with their world, and ours, very much hanging in the balance.”

Watch the new teaser for Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned HERE.

About The Vampire Lestat

The Vampire Lestat stars Sam Reid, Anderson,Zaman, Bogosian, Atim, Delainey Hayles, and Jennifer Ehle and is executive produced by award-winning producer Johnson, creator, writer and showrunner Jones, Moscovitch, along with Christopher Rice and the late Anne Rice.

An accomplished writer and playwright, Moscovitch was a writer on the first two seasons of Interview with the Vampire and an executive producer on The Vampire Lestat, for which she specifically wrote the “Akasha” and “Gabriella” characters. Her previous credits include the critically acclaimed play Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, for which she received the 2021 Governor General’s Award for English-language drama, and the Crave TV mini-series Little Bird.

Given how season three ended (Toronto has been destroyed, with Akasha being the suspected culprit or at least behind the destruction), season four will answer all of those questions for fans. The Vampire Lestat set up Akasha, but now we will finally get to see her in her full power.

(Featured image: Sophie Giraud/AMC)

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