AMC's deal includes 18 titles across the "The Vampire Chronicles" and "The Lives of the Mayfair Witches" book series- including Interview with the Vampire, Queen of the Damned, The Vampire Lestat, and The Witching Hour Johnson will lead AMC's efforts to develop the full Rice collection for television & streaming.
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On Wednesday, it was AMC Studios' turn to celebrate, with the news that the company had secured the rights to author Anne Rice's "The Vampire Chronicles" and "The Lives of the Mayfair Witches" Variety reported first and exclusively the deal will include film and television projects for the networks and streaming services under the corporate[...]
UPDATE: Variety is reporting that Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles is now being shopped by the author and her team to other services as a complete buyout of the TV/film rights The deal would reportedly include "The Vampire Chronicles" as well as "Mayfair Witches" (currently at Warner Bros.) – with a pricetag of $30M-$40M (as well[...]
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The Vampire Lestat, who first appeared in Rice's ever-popular novel Interview with the Vampire, has been the main undead gent across the 14 (including the two Mayfair Witches tie-ins) novels in the Vampire Chronicles and will return in a 15th tome October 2nd.
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At long last, we know where The Vampire Chronicles will be spending its [after]life Hulu announced today that they will be sinking their fangs into the television series based on the works by Anne Rice. Also, the confirmation that the series will be about the chronicles, and not just the Brat Prince Lestat.
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Christopher Rice is working with his mom on the long-rumored and long in development tv series about the brat Prince of Vampires, Lestat deLioncourt.
Anne Rice, author and creator of the Vampire Chronicles, has long lamented the lack of additional film/tv about her main fanged character Lestat, and has revisited her creations in written form[...]
His departure, knowing these Apple rules, isn't shocking.
Not to mention, he's got 11 of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles novels to get to work on developing!
It sure seems hard to keep Bryan Fuller attached to helm a TV show recently Through no (apparent) fault of his own, the creator has now exited three series due to conflicts with[...]
Fans of Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles were excited when the author announced last year that she had reclaimed the rights to her novels, writing on her Facebook page at the time, "A television series of the highest quality is now my dream for Lestat, Louis, Armand, Marius and the entire tribe." Excitement continued to grow[...]