Sam Reid to star in Interview With the Vampire

Sam Reid (The Newsreader, Lambs of God, The Hunting) has been cast in the lead role of Lestat in upcoming US drama Interview With the Vampire.

The show is based on the Anne Rice novel which became a Tom Cruise movie in 1994 and Stuart Townsend in the 2002’s Queen of the Damned.

It centres on the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac as he relates the story of his life to a reporter, in particular how he was turned into a vampire and then mentored by Lestat de Lioncourt.

Variety notes the casting could represent a long-term investment in Reid on AMC’s part. As the company has the rights to all of Rice’s “The Vampire Chronicles” books and Lestat appears in multiple entries, Reid could find himself portraying the character across multiple series.