The Vampire Lestat Reframes the Story in a Chaotic Premiere

Season three of Rolin Jones' adaptation arrives retitled as The Vampire Lestat and shifts perspective from Louis de Pointe du Lac to Lestat de Lioncourt. The change doesn’t abandon the series’ earlier identity so much as reframe it, trading the meditative, mournful tone of the first two seasons for a more electrifying, non-linear ride through Lestat’s psyche.

Episode 1, “Detroit,” written by Jones and Hannah Moscovitch and directed by Craig Zisk, opens at a somber auction of Lestat’s belongings before cutting back to spring 2025. Lestat and his four human bandmates — Larry (Noah Reid), Alex (Seamus Patterson), Salamander (Ryan Kattner), and TC (Sarah Swire) — are on a provocative tour that has split the vampire world between fascination and orders to kill him for flouting the Great Laws.

An onstage performance in Detroit sets the chaotic tone, with telepathic insults from local vampires Tim (Dorian Grey) and Rus (Elise Bauman) underscoring the danger he courted by courting fame.

United States, Detroit

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