To date, the vampire chronicles have sold 80 million copies worldwide. Universal pictures has purchased the rights to make new anne rice vampire movies. Anne rices the vampire chronicles series coming to amc. If this new partnership produces a series at last, it will be the first time either of rices beloved series has been adapted for the small screen.
Setting up a potential vampire franchise, universal pictures has acquired movie rights to anne rices novels in the vampire chronicles series for brian grazer and imagine entertainment. He is brought into the blood by armand in 1985, some nine years later. The lestat movie is definitely happening, but who will. Interview with the vampire, vampire chronicles, prince lestat, all of them. Anne rices vampire chronicles series has a new tv home. The 1994 adaptation of interview with the vampire, starring tom cruise and brad pitt, was popular and acclaimed in its day, but it didnt exactly spark a whole new age of vampire cinema. After years of ups and downsincluding a brief time at huluthe rights to anne rices vampire chronicles novels have now landed at amc studios. Every so often, a subgenre will release a film that completely reinvents or reimagines the types of films they are categorized in.
Amc networks announced on wednesday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire anne rices major literary works, the vampire chronicles series. As we reported last year, anne rice was shopping around a massive television and film package for both the vampire chronicles and the lives of. Vampire chronicles, mayfair witches rights land at amc. The nameless boy interviewer in interview with the vampire. The vampire chronicles is going to have to find itself a new crypt. The following is a list of characters from anne rices the vampire chronicles, which began with the 1976 novel interview with the vampire. New anne rice vampire movies coming from universal. That book was adapted into a film of the same name in. Brought into the blood by armand in the queen of the. Transylvania, capes, bats and chalices filled with blood. The vampire chronicles tv series set to arrive on hulu.
Anne rices the vampire chronicles coming to hulu ign. Amc developing anne rices the vampire chronicles and. The vampire lestat becomes a rock star whose music wakes up the queen of all vampires. The vampire chronicles tv series optioned by paramount emily donn apr 28, 2017 paramount television and anonymous content has optioned a tv series based on the 11 book series the vampire chronicles by ann rice. A television series of the highest quality is now my dream for lestat, louis, armand, marius and the entire tribe. Amc networks has acquired the rights to anne rices two iconic supernatural book series, the vampire chronicles and the mayfair witches, the. Anne rice was originally working to adapt her bestselling books into a series at hulu, but thats no longer happening.
Three years ago, author anne rice regained the film rights to the books in her series the vampire chronicles, and with those rights in hand she began. Yes, the vampire chronicles are rich with blood, gore, and horror, but at their core they are romantic dramas, which is a genre boone tackled head on with the fault in our stars. Why fans of the vampire chronicles hate queen of the damned. At one point, bryan fuller was set to the post vampire chronicles dead at hulu, but could be resurrected elsewhere appeared. The vampire chronicles interview with the vampire 1976. Anne rices vampire chronicles and mayfair witches series.
The vampire chronicles collection changes the movie. The vampire chronicles have been adapted twice for the big screen, first with the wellreceived interview with the vampire film in 1994 and then with the lesswellreceived queen of the damned in 2002. I watch it every few years, and still enjoy every moment of it. The vampire chronicles movie is currently in development. List of the vampire chronicles characters wikipedia. According to one insider, the new package being shopped includes both the vampire chronicles and also rices mayfair witches, which is currently set up at warner bros. In this the new golden age of television, such a series is the way to let the entire story of. Amc has acquired the rights to both the vampire chronicles and lives of the mayfair witches, both by anne rice and both about, well, vampires. Anne rices vampire chronicles takes flight at universal. Anne rices vampire chronicles tv series heads to hulu. The vampire chronicles have found a new home movie news. Elton john and his songwriting partner bernie taupin wrote a notoriously bad musical adaptation of the first three novels, titled lestat, which closed after.
The theatrical rights to the vampire chronicles are once again in my hands, free and clear. The vampire chronicles set to begin filming this september. A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witchs beautiful lookalike descendant, with only the girls brother and a handsome doctor standing in her way. Most of the books are in firstperson perspective with only a few being in thirdperson. The vampire chronicles 55 movie clip new companion 1994 hd by movieclips. Anne rice first hinted that she may be adapting her vampire chronicles book series into an openended tv series of the highest quality at. Now, rice and her team are shopping the property around for a new home. Anne rices vampire chronicles and mayfair witches rights. The vampire chronicles began with 1976s interview with the vampire, which was turned into a popular 1994 movie starring brad pitt as louis and tom cruise as lestat, along with christian slater. Interview with the vampire 1994 ending scene hd by karthikey91. Vampire chronicles tv series no longer at hulu film.
One such film is none other than interview with the vampire. The company has purchased the rights to bestselling author anne rices major literary works, including the vampire chronicles series and the lives of the mayfair witches series. From an oct 28, 2014 live event, acclaimed author anne rice reveals her thoughts on how tom cruise and brad pitt fared in interview with a vampire and discusses a potential reboot of the vampire. After about twenty years, the interview with the vampire is still my favorite vampire movie of all times. The vampire chronicles, an upcoming tv series based on 11 of anne rices vampire novels, will premier on hulu. I just purchased the bluray, and although the quality is not very much improved over the dvd release, it has sturdier casing. With jerico estregan, sanya lopez, raymond cabral, lianne valentin. The complex world of anne rices most famous work has found a new home at amc as the cable network that houses the likes of the walking.
With brad pitt, tom cruise, antonio banderas, kirsten dunst. Amc networks has acquired the rights to anne rices bestselling book series the vampire chronicles and the lives of the mayfair witches, variety has learned exclusively. Anne rices the vampire chronicles acquired by amc for. The vampire chronicles is expected to pick up with the vampire lestat, the second book in rices iconic series. Interview with the vampire, the vampire lestat, the queen of the damned by anne rice sold by. The vampire chronicles and the lives of the mayfair witches will now get new adaptations across the companys various channels and streaming platforms. Series based on anne rices the vampire chronicles seeks a. Not only is anne rice s vampire chronicles franchise headed to the small screen, with hulu currently developing a series adaptation, but the saga continues in print this coming october with the release of the brand new, ricepenned blood communion. Louis chronicles his meeting of the vampire lestat and the ending result of louis becoming a vampire. The vampire chronicles series is set to be based on 11 books in rices collection, which began with 1976s interview with the vampire.
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