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
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 series adds Game of Thrones alum Jacob Anderson as Louis
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
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 […]
AMC’s Interview with the Vampire casts Sam Reid as Lestat
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 […]
Alan Taylor to direct Interview with the Vampire
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 […]
Interview with the Vampire series gets green light from AMC
The gothic and sexy world of Anne Rice is coming back, this time with a new series on AMC. Last year, AMC acquired the rights to several Anne Rice stories, including The Vampire Chronicles and The Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and it seems like her most iconic work is first up for the network […]
Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles series coming to AMC
The complex world of Anne Rice’s most famous work has found a new home at AMC as the cable network that houses the likes of The Walking Dead and Better Call Saul will take on the iconic series of novels, Vampire Chronicles, as their next big project. The cable group has also acquired rights to […]
Hulu passes on Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles series
Some bad news for fans of Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles, as Deadline is reporting that Hulu has opted to pass on the planned television series from Paramount TV and Anonymous Content. Rice and her son Christopher have been looking to get a small screen adaptation of her book series off the ground since the […]
Hulu picks up The Vampire Chronicles TV series
The further adventures of Anne Rice’s vampiric creations have been stuck in production purgatory since the 2002 stinker, Queen of the Damned, and only this past May Bryan Fuller added the proposed small screen adaptation to his ever-growing list of departed TV projects. Well now there’s some better news for Paramount Television and Anonymous Content, who […]
