What follows emphasizes the themes in Rice’s novels that have made them endure for so long. AMC’s story begins when Malloy is invited by Louis to continue their interview in a compound in Dubai. Rather than being a young man who happens to meet a vampire one night and decides to interview him, this time Daniel Malloy, played impeccably by Eric Bogosian, has already met Louis once as a young man but their interview was never finished. It isn’t just the obvious changes that stand out- Anderson’s Louis de Pointe du Lac is a Black brothel owner in the early 20th century rather than a white plantation owner in the late 18th century-but also the framing of the story. But after the season finale, it seems clear that it’s exactly these character changes that have made showrunner Rolin Jones’s adaptation so true to the spirit of the books.Ī lot has changed in AMC’s Interview with the Vampire, to the point that I, having recently watched the 1994 movie starring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, was instantly a little skeptical. In many ways, the Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) of AMC’s Interview With The Vampire is nothing like the one in Anne Rice’s book.
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