The Anne Rice catalog that AMC Networks is acquiring features The Vampire Chronicles series: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch The Devil, The Vampire Armand, Pandora, Vittorio the Vampire, Blood and Gold, Prince Lestat, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, and Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat; The Lives of The Mayfair Witches series: The Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos; and The Vampire Chronicles/The Lives Of The Mayfair Witches crossover novels: Merrick, Blackwood Farm and Blood Canticle.
In a press release, AMC announced it had purchased the rights to a whopping 18 Rice novels from the Vampire Chronicles and The Lives of the Mayfair Witches series, with the intent to generate a whole bunch of new content for its networks and streaming services.
It sounds like a new cinematic (or at least televisual) universe is brewing: One dedicated to the literary works of Anne Rice, the author behind The Vampire Chronicles and many more supernatural novels.
AMC has obviously had enormous success in recent years with its multifaceted Walking Dead franchise, which was based on a long-running Image comic book.