Game of Thrones actor Jacob Anderson has been cast in a leading role in AMC's Interview With the Vampire series.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Anderson, who is best known for playing the Unsullied commander Grey Worm on HBO's Game of Thrones, has joined the Interview With the Vampire cast to portray the ancient vampire Louis, "a young man who is seduced into the world of the undead by the amoral vampire Lestat," played by Sam Reid in the series.
Interview With the Vampire is the first in a series of Vampire novels written by Anne Rice, starting in 1976. The source novel primarily follows Anderson's character Louis de Pointe du Lac and Reid's Lestat de Lioncourt, a French nobleman-turned-vampire who stars in several of Rice's Vampire novels, including 1985's The Vampire Lestat which explores his backstory.
For the new TV adaptation, Anderson will be reuniting with Game of Thrones director Alan Taylor, who recently signed on to helm the first two episodes of the eight-episode first season while Mark Johnson is on board to lead the development of the full Anne Rice collection, which was acquired by AMC last year in a bid to forge a new interconnected TV universe.
While Interview With the Vampire will be Anderson's first TV role since appearing as Grey Worm on Game of Thrones, it was recently announced that Anderson will also be starring in a recurring role in the upcoming season of Doctor Who. His other TV roles include Showtime's Episodes, together with The Mimic and Broadchurch.
Rolin Jones is creator, showrunner and executive producer of Interview With the Vampire, which is expected to air on AMC in 2022. AMC's president of original programming Dan McDermott said the upcoming Anne Rice series will sit alongside The Walking Dead and an Agatha Christie adaptation as part of a growing library of franchises for the network.
Adele Ankers is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Anderson, who is best known for playing the Unsullied commander Grey Worm on HBO's Game of Thrones, has joined the Interview With the Vampire cast to portray the ancient vampire Louis, "a young man who is seduced into the world of the undead by the amoral vampire Lestat," played by Sam Reid in the series.
Interview With the Vampire is the first in a series of Vampire novels written by Anne Rice, starting in 1976. The source novel primarily follows Anderson's character Louis de Pointe du Lac and Reid's Lestat de Lioncourt, a French nobleman-turned-vampire who stars in several of Rice's Vampire novels, including 1985's The Vampire Lestat which explores his backstory.
For the new TV adaptation, Anderson will be reuniting with Game of Thrones director Alan Taylor, who recently signed on to helm the first two episodes of the eight-episode first season while Mark Johnson is on board to lead the development of the full Anne Rice collection, which was acquired by AMC last year in a bid to forge a new interconnected TV universe.
While Interview With the Vampire will be Anderson's first TV role since appearing as Grey Worm on Game of Thrones, it was recently announced that Anderson will also be starring in a recurring role in the upcoming season of Doctor Who. His other TV roles include Showtime's Episodes, together with The Mimic and Broadchurch.
Rolin Jones is creator, showrunner and executive producer of Interview With the Vampire, which is expected to air on AMC in 2022. AMC's president of original programming Dan McDermott said the upcoming Anne Rice series will sit alongside The Walking Dead and an Agatha Christie adaptation as part of a growing library of franchises for the network.
Adele Ankers is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.
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