A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Daniel has gone professionally fallow, so he jumps when Louis summons him to Dubai - chosen, presumably, as an isolated place where money can make your past disappear - for another extended conversation and the chance to actually publish this one. The framing device introduces us to Eric Bogosian’s Daniel Malloy, an aging gonzo journalist, who, 40+ years earlier, conducted an interview with a vampire (Jacob Anderson’s Louis). Unlike the Neil Jordan feature, which Rice scripted herself, Jones’ adaptation maintains the shape of the book but very few of the specifics. It isn’t quite scary, but it’s at least unsettling at times. But through five of the first season’s seven episodes, I appreciated the way this Interview solidified the source material’s central relationship, refined some of its more humorous aspects and plunged thoroughly into the campiness of others. It’s a worthy goal if not a perfect execution, and I think undead devotees preferring one extreme or the other - as if genre progenitors like Bram Stoker’s Dracula weren’t already half soapy melodrama and half horror - will be frustrated. Variety exclusively reported last year that AMC had acquired the rights to Rice’s book series “The Vampire Chronicles” and “The Lives of the Mayfair Witches.AMC Reverses Renewal for 'Soulmates' Anthology (Exclusive) Alan Taylor will direct the first two episodes and serves as an executive producer. Mark Johnson will executive produce under his overall deal with AMC Studios as well, with Anne Rice and Christopher Rice also executive producing. Rolin Jones will serve as writer, executive producer, and showrunner on the series under his overall deal with AMC Studios.
The cabler has given “Interview With the Vampire” an eight episode order with an eye toward a 2022 debut on both AMC and AMC Plus. He is repped by Curtis Brown, WME and Independent Management Company.
On the film side, he is known for roles in features such as “Belle,” “’71,” “Anonymous,” and “The Railway Man.” Reid currently stars in the Australian drama series “The Newsreader,” with shows like “The Hunting,” “Lambs of God,” “Prime Suspect 1973,” and “The Astronaut Wives Club” also among his TV credits.
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