I'm a chronic over-thinker, and so is Louis de Pointe du Lac.”Īnd adds, “I've read the majority of the books now, and they're all kind of on this eternal quest to figure out who they are and who they were, and, to what degree are they still human, even the ones that seem completely detached.” But now, he has embraced it: “I think there's something that I didn't quite realize that related to vampires, this kind of searching. I was really scared of horror as a child,” he remarks. “I wasn't massively a vampire guy when I grew up. “Then we have to figure out how, to what degree they all interconnect very much like the Marvel world, which characters may appear significantly or just incidentally and from one franchise to the other,” Johnson says.įor Anderson, who’s better known for his GOT’s character Grey Worm, becoming a vampire was a process. While IWTV was being shot in New Orleans, filming overlapped with the network’s next series, “Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches,” and there are three other series based on Rice’s books being developed.
“AMC has grand plans for the Anne Rice world.” “In true candor, I wasn't that familiar with all of her work and became familiar,” he says. Johnson explains that being picked to oversee Rice’s universe has been extraordinary.
But differently from the 1994 Tom Cruise-Brad Pitt movie, “Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles,” in this new rendition, Pointe du Lac is a black businessman living and working in 1900’s segregated New Orleans.
This new adaptation of Rice’s 1976 iconic and bestselling novel “Interview with the Vampire,” features Pointe du Lac telling journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) about his epic love story with Lestat De Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and Claudia (Bailey Bass), bloodshed and the perils of immortality. “ would drop off three scripts and be like, ‘Let me know what you think?’” “ writes with a lot of humility, just seems to have such a skill with words,” he says. “He's extraordinary,” says Johnson, “he's one of those guys surprises you in every page he writes, every decision he makes is unexpected.”Īctor Jacob Anderson (“Game of Thrones”), who plays the tormented vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac in the series, agrees. One of the people he found for AMC’s first series “ Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire,” was Rolin Jones (“Perry Mason,” “Friday Night Lights”), the show’s creator and showrunner. When award-winning executive producer Mark Johnson was tapped by AMC to oversee adaptations of Anne Rice’s 18 most relevant novels, he knew he would need to bust his talent spotting chops to help with the multi-series of Rice’s supernatural universe.
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