There may be a whole lot of Rice — Anne Rice, that is — in your viewing diet in the years ahead, as Variety reports that AMC Networks has acquired the film and TV rights to the best-selling author’s two most famous and extensive series of books.
The home of such other horror TV favorites as The Walking Dead and NOS4A2 has acquired the rights to Rice’s Vampire Chronicles and Lives of the Mayfair Witches canons, which encompasses some 18 novels, including titles like the original Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Witching Hour and Lasher. Several of the novels cross over, bringing Rice’s vampires and witches together in one universe, and apparently the plan is to expand upon that idea with AMC’s offerings.
The company will produce adaptations for its own TV networks and streaming services from the Rice material, with the author and her son...
The home of such other horror TV favorites as The Walking Dead and NOS4A2 has acquired the rights to Rice’s Vampire Chronicles and Lives of the Mayfair Witches canons, which encompasses some 18 novels, including titles like the original Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Witching Hour and Lasher. Several of the novels cross over, bringing Rice’s vampires and witches together in one universe, and apparently the plan is to expand upon that idea with AMC’s offerings.
The company will produce adaptations for its own TV networks and streaming services from the Rice material, with the author and her son...
- 5/13/2020
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
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