AMC is readying a new series based on "Interview With The Vampire," the landmark 1976 book from author Anne Rice that was eventually turned into a landmark 1994 movie starring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise as sexually fluid bloodsuckers who spend the centuries moping through their melancholy un-lives. Rice released a follow-up, "The Vampire Lestat," in 1985, officially kicking off a Vampire Chronicles universe that is beloved to this day.
The extended universe is definitely attractive to AMC, which is hoping this first series leads to several spinoffs. But Interview remains Rice's most popular story, and the wicked Lestat her most enduring character. Tom Cruise played him in the original movie, and now Australian actor Sam Reid will play him in the AMC show.
