“As soon as I got the email about the audition, I got this weird feeling in my stomach.
“I watched the movie when I was a teen,” Anderson said. That’s all.”Īctors Anderson and Reid chatted about how they feel being a part of Rice’s legacy. Holbrook didn’t hold back when asking about the queer context of the story, and Jones’ answer was short and sweet: “It’s an aggressive, beautiful love story between two people.
We’ve taken so much of Anne’s writing and used it for the show.” “The advantage is that we are on television, whereas the movie had to sprint because it only had two hours. “Our vision had a lot of things to consider,” he said. The Anne Rice world is going to go on for some time on AMC.”Īsked about the vision of the show, Jones reiterated that he wanted to stay as true to the material as possible. is a stylistic, and thematic writer, and it’s a privilege to be involved. “The books are so fun, and so different, it’s hard to believe they are connected in that way. The show will play up the queer elements, particularly between Louis and Lestat.Īfter the trailer, Johnson discussed why he got involved with the show. There plenty of blood and guts with a seductive allure that Rice, who died last year, tended to capture in her books. We also see Claudia and how she comes to be a part of this massive story. In the trailer that opened the panel, Louis and Lestat meet for the first time. The panelists included executive producer Matt Johnson writer and showrunner Rolin Jones stars Reid, Bass, Anderson and Bogosian and production designer Mara LePere-Schloop. But Louis’ intoxicating new powers come with a violent price, and the introduction of Lestat’s newest fledgling, the child vampire Claudia, soon sets them on a decades-long path of revenge and atonement. Chafing at the limitations of life as a Black man in 1900s New Orleans, Louis finds it impossible to resist the rakish Lestat’s offer of the ultimate escape: joining him as his vampire companion. A website called Animation Anomaly covers the entire case in greater detail.Based on Anne Rice’s revolutionary gothic novel, Interview with the Vampire follows Louis de Pointe du Lac ( Game of ThronesJacob Anderson), Lestat deLioncourt ( Belle‘s Sam Reid) and Claudia’s (newcomer Bailey Bass) and their epic story of love, blood and the perils of immortality, as told to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian).
After refusing to agree to another joint ownership arrangement, Supersonic was finally awarded full rights to Scrat. It wasn't until the Disney buyout of Fox that Supersonic was asked to renegotiate. After years of legal battles, in 2012, Supersonic was finally awarded the copyright to the Scrat character, finally bringing the 1999 paperwork to a close. Fox offered her a settlement which she refused. In 2003, a court ruled that Fox and Supersonic were co-owners of Scrat, after Supersonic bought the Beaver image back from Szafarczyk, with rights stretching back to 1994. Supersonic sued Fox for stealing her character. Fox negotiated the character with Szafarczyk and with DAS, which were technically the co-owners of Sqrat. Although Supersonic designed the character, she had hired an artist named Ron Szafarczyk to re-tool the character to be more marketing-friendly. Szafarczyk, instead of retooling the character from scratch, ended up copying and slightly altering an off-the-rack image of a beaver owned by a clip-art company called DAS. Disney was able to use the Sqrat character because of a bizarre loophole in the way the character was designed.