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First look at Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches starring Alexandra Daddario, Harry Hamlin and Jack Huston

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AMC is going all in on its Anne Rice universe, following up October’s Interview with the Vampire with an adaptation of the author’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and you can check out a batch of first look images from Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches below featuring Alexandra Daddario as Dr. Rowan Fielding, Harry Hamlin as Cortland […]

Meet the vampire Lestat in trailer for AMC’s Interview with the Vampire

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During today’s San Diego Comic-Con presentation, AMC shared the first trailer for its upcoming small screen adaptation of Anne Rice’s legendary novel Interview with the Vampire starring Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe and Sam Reid as the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt. Based on Anne Rice’s iconic novel, the series follows Louis de Pointe’s epic […]

AMC drops first look at Lestat and Louis in Interview With the Vampire

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Anne Rice’s world of vampires has laid dormant since 2002 dud Queen of the Damned attempted to build on the success of Neil Jordan’s lavish 1994 blockbuster Interview with the Vampire. Now AMC are summoning them forth for a new adaptation of the 1976 novel and have just released four stills featuring the iconic duo […]

Harry Hamlin joins Alexandra Daddario in Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches

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Deadline reports AMC has tapped another actor to join Alexandra Daddario in their Anne Rice adaptation Mayfair Witches. Harry Hamlin (Mad Men) is set to star alongside Daddario in the series as the leader of the power Mayfair clan. Mayfair Witches follows an “intuitive young neurosurgeon who discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a […]

Alexandra Daddario joins AMC’s Anne Rice adaptation Mayfair Witches

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AMC is ready to cast some spells for Mayfair Witches as Alexandra Daddario (The White Lotus) is the first to join the series adaptation of the late Anne Rice’s novels, per Variety. AMC purchased the rights to Rice’s two series The Live of the Mayfair Witches and The Vampire Chronicles in 2020. Mayfair Witches is being developed by Mark Johnson, Rice’s son […]

AMC’s Interview with the Vampire casts Sam Reid as Lestat

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AMC has announced Sam Reid (The Hunting) has been cast as the lead in the series adaptation of Anne Rice’s vampire novel Interview with the Vampire, where he will portray the vampire Lestat. Lestat de Lioncourt was born in France in 1760 to an aristocratic but broke family. He wanted nothing more than to leave his […]

AMC’s Interview with the Vampire series adds Game of Thrones alum Jacob Anderson as Louis

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Following on from the announcement that Sam Reid (The Hunting) has been cast as the vampire Lestat, AMC has revealed that Game of Thrones alum Jacob Anderson will portray Louis de Pointe du Lac in the series adaptation of Anne Rice’s vampire novel Interview with the Vampire. In Interview with the Vampire, Louis de Pointe du Lac is […]

Anne Rice’s The Lives of the Mayfair Witches in early development as series at AMC

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Last year it was announced that AMC had acquired the rights to Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles and The Lives of the Mayfair Witches, with the cable network wasting little time in giving the green light to a TV series adaptation of Rice’s most famous novel Interview with the Vampire. Well, just a week on […]

Alan Taylor to direct Interview with the Vampire

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Last month it was announced that the long-gestating TV adaptation of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire is finally moving forward, with AMC granting the green light to an eight-episode first season. Rolin Jones (The Exorcist, Perry Mason) is serving as showrunner on the series, and now comes word that Thor: The Dark World and […]