As she grapples with her newfound powers, she must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations.'ĪMC Networks last year acquired the rights to an expansive collection of Rice’s iconic works, encompassing 18 titles including The Vampire Chronicles and The Lives of the Mayfair Witches series, which have delighted fans around the world.

The series will focus on an intuitive young neurosurgeon who discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. Spalding, who has an overall deal with AMC Studios, will serve as showrunner. “Esta Spalding ( Masters of Sex, On Becoming a God in Central Florida) and Michelle Ashford ( Masters of Sex, The Pacific, John Adams) are both executive producers and writers of the series. The full statement about the project reads:

Universal picked up the rights to The Vampire Chronicles in 2014, but did not move ahead and the rights reverted back to Rice in 2016, and since then options have been taken on the works by Hulu and Paramount, but neither came to anything, allowing AMC to take the reins of Rice’s work.

The Feast of All Saints aired on Showtime in 2001 as a mini-series starring James Earl jones and Gloria Reuben, and at the time NBC showed an interested in producing a Mayfair Witches series but the project never got started. Since then there have been a number of rumored plans for TV series based on the Anne Rice universe. While reviews of the movie were mixed, the next movie of Rice’s work was Queen of the Damned in 2002 and was seen as a commercial failure, recouping only $30 million of its $35 million budget from domestic ticket sales and being rejected by Rice, who said that the film “mutilated” her novel. 1994’s Interview with the Vampire was huge hit, featuring a cast including Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas and a ten year old Kirsten Dunst who was nominated for a Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award. Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witcheswill be the second series produced in the new contract AMC has for the universe they are creating on the back of the authors numerous gothic horror novels, and will follow the Interview with the Vampire series late in 2022.įans of Anne Rice’s novels have been given a bit of a rollercoaster ride when it comes to the scarce adaptation of her work to screen. Earlier this year it was announced that AMC had acquired the rights to Anne Rice’s catalogue of works including The Vampire Chronicles and the trilogy Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and it now appears that both properties have been given series orders with AMC.

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