As Interview With the Vampire fans eagerly await the show’s third season—retitled The Vampire Lestat as a nod to its significant storyline shift—there’ll be a small tease coming with AMC’s next Anne Rice series. Talamasca: The Secret Order arrives October 26, and Lestat’s musical career will be making its debut as part of that… if you listen very carefully.
Fortunately, Mark Lafferty, Talamasca‘s co-showrunner alongside John Lee Hancock, told Entertainment Weekly exactly when audiences should turn the volume up.
“If a viewer is listening very closely in episode five, they might hear something coming through the speakers of a bar that is a direct tie to another of the series and might also give somebody some residuals from Talamasca,” Lafferty said. “If they’re listening at just the right time, they just might hear a track or two that comes from Lestat.”
Crossovers are a natural fit for AMC’s Anne Rice Immortal Universe; fan-favorite Interview With the Vampire character Daniel Molloy (played by Eric Bogosian) will pop up on Talamasca, and another Interview character, Felix (Gabriel Freilich), passed by The Mayfair Witches during its second season.
That’s just the beginning, according to EW, which notes, “The Talamasca showrunners worked closely with the other Immortal Universe producers—Interview With the Vampire creator Rolin Jones and Mayfair Witches creators Michelle Ashford and Esta Spalding—to figure out which characters and storylines can weave together across all three series.”
“There are certain parts of this story that are meaningful in these other stories and can suggest that the whole universe is sort of talking to each other,” Lafferty explained.
Executive producer and Immortal Universe overseer Mark Johnson further hinted that Interview and Mayfair “are also going to be ‘borrowing’ characters and storylines from Talamasca moving forward.”
Could a fourth show join this growing adaptation of Rice’s Vampire Chronicles? Yes. And maybe more, according to Johnson, who told EW there are “three or four other titles [and] subjects that we’d like to pursue … we’ll have [another] one soon enough,” though he wouldn’t elaborate beyond that. “I think an Anne Rice aficionado could probably figure out which ones are most likely the next in line—[but] I think I’d better keep the titles to myself right now.”
Anne Rice’s Talamasca: The Secret Order premieres with its first two episodes October 26 on AMC and AMC+.
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