Interview With The Vampire: TV series to bare its fangs at AMC

After years of hypothesis and thirsting for some vampire-on-vampire motion, Anne Rice’s INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE is headed to AMC.

AMC has ordered an eight-part collection based mostly on the ebook, which in 1994 was tailored into a significant movement image starring Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas, and Christian Slater. AMC acquired the rights to Rice’s assortment of novels final yr, and the time has lastly come to sink their enamel into the beloved materials.

Interview with the Vampire is not the one property that AMC has plans for. The community can be trying to adapt the writer’s Mayfair Witches collection, with Breaking Dangerous and Higher Name Saul producer Mark Johnson overseeing the venture. Johnson, who has a deal arrange at AMC, might be in command of bringing Rice’s macabre universe to the small display.

Rolin Jones, who co-created and served as showrunner for the primary season of HBO’s Perry Mason, will act because the showrunner and author of the Interview with the Vampire collection. He’ll additionally function an govt producer whereas Rice and Christopher Rice will take part as non-writing govt producers.

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“The problem of adapting for tv the groundbreaking and immensely compelling work of Anne Rice is each intimidating and exhilarating,” Johnson mentioned. “Having beforehand produced movies from such singular works, I acknowledge each the duty and the duty we owe the fabric. I strongly consider that with AMC and Rolin Jones we’re outfitted to fulfill this problem and to thrill and entertain each the loyal Anne Rice fan and the viewer who’s simply now discovering her work.”

“In 1973, a grieving mom and extraordinary author started what would grow to be the best Vampire novel ever written, all respects to Mr. Stoker,” Jones mentioned. “Almost fifty years later we all know what’s anticipated of us. We all know how a lot this ebook and those that observe imply to their large fan base. We really feel you over our shoulders as we have a tendency the Savage Backyard. Louis and Lestat are popping out of hiding and we are able to’t wait to reunite them with you.”

Rice’s assortment of novels are a treasured nook of the literary world, giving life to goths the world over with their stirring depiction of all issues sinister and attractive. Adapting Interview into a correct tv collection has been whispered about for what seems like an eternity. It is good to see that it is lastly on the brink of rise from the lifeless.