Anne Rice herself announced that she had regained the rights and was planning to adapt the novels for television alongside her son, Christopher Rice.
Bryan Fuller was going to be the showrunner after leaving American Gods (2017), but left the series to work on other endeavors.
The opening credit sequence is an emerging composite image consisting of the skyline of Dubai and New Orleans. Dubai is on the bottom of the frame, with New Orleans on the top, which brought together resembles a set of "Vampire fangs".
Similar to actor River Phoenix, who tragically passed away before filming his scenes as Daniel Malloy for Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), author Anne Rice, who had written the "Interview With the Vampire" novel and its twelve sequels, had passed away before overseeing production as executive producer for the show.