Interview With the Vampire has been renewed for a fourth season, AMC announced Friday.
The renewal news came during the Comic-Con Hall H presentation of the show’s third season, The Vampire Lestat, which included executive producers Mark Johnson and Hannah Moscovitch, along with castmembers Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian and Sheila Atim. The third season just ended its run last week.
The show was given a name change to The Vampire Lestat for season three to match the name of the Anne Rice novel on which the season was based. Season four will follow that trend and has been dubbed Queen of the Damned. It’s the third novel in Rice’s Vampire Chronicles series and is a continuation of the story. The new season will focus heavily on the original vampire, Akasha, portrayed by Sheila Atim in The Vampire Lestat.
Queen of the Damned is also getting a new showrunner. Moscovitch will take the reins from Rolin Jones, who ran the show’s first three seasons (Jones remains an executive producer). Moscovitch will executive produce Queen of the Damned with Johnson and Jones after working as a writer on seasons one and two and as an EP on The Vampire Lestat, specifically writing the characters of Akasha and Gabriella (Jennifer Ehle).
“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,” AMC Global Media’s chief content officer and president of AMC Studios Dan McDermott said in a release. “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 teaser for Queen of the Damned below.
