Vampire stories have always been ripe for storytelling, and there’s never any shortage of adaptations (Nosferatu, Interview With The Vampire, The Vampire Diaries, the list goes on), so it’s a no-brainer for Hollywood to capitalize and expand its offerings. But, consistent with Reinhart’s comments, studios are still hesitant to green-light queer stories in general, whether they’re about supernatural creatures or humans. The Matrix co-creator Lilly Wachowski recently said that people like the script for her new action movie, but don’t want to make it because it has a “wall-to-wall trans cast.” Meanwhile, GLAAD’s 2026 Where We Are In Film Study found a significant decrease in LGBTQ character representation in films from the 10 biggest studio distributors in 2025.
Reinhart, who is bisexual, told Hits Daily that she sees a story’s queer element as a bonus. “I’m instantly way more interested in doing a movie if my character is a little gay, because I’m a little gay,” she said. Reinhart has taken a more hands-on approach to her career since her breakout role on The CW’s Riverdale, both as an actor and a producer. Most recently, she brought the New York Times bestseller and BookTok favorite The Love Hypothesis to life for a Prime Video film adaptation. Reinhart didn’t name the novella she’s keen to adapt, though some might assume she was referring to the popular 1872 Gothic novella Carmilla, credited with creating the lesbian vampire trope in fiction (though the story has had various adaptations over the years). Maybe a BookTok sleuth can crack the mystery.
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