The Immortal Universe in short
- AMC has purchased the rights to 14 of Anne Rice’s novels, from each her Vampire Chronicles sequence and her Lives of the Mayfair Witches sequence.
- In June 2021, AMC greenlit the primary foray into the Immortal Universe with Interview With the Vampire, which premiered in October 2022.
- The primary season of Interview With the Vampire started airing on AMC on October 2, and is presently obtainable to stream on AMC+.
- The primary season of Interview With the Vampire was seven episodes lengthy.
- Interview With the Vampire has been renewed for a second season—which is able to happen not less than partly in Paris, France.
- Season two has began filming in Prague.
- AMC additionally launched a postmortem Interview with the Vampire podcast, hosted by author/comic/vampire-enthusiast Naomi Ekperigin, the place she is joined by the actors and writers behind the present.
- The subsequent Immortal Universe present, Mayfair Witches, premiered January 8, to combined evaluations.
- Mayfair Witches was renewed for a second season.
This text was initially printed on 12/1/2022; it was final up to date on March 15. It’s going to proceed to be up to date to mirror new data when it’s launched.
What’s the Immortal Universe?
Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe is what AMC is looking its adaptation of Anne Rice’s varied novels—particularly her Vampire Chronicles sequence and her witch-centric sequence Lives of the Mayfair Witches. They’re technically two separate entities inside Anne Rice’s oeuvre, however the books have a number of crossover between characters. Simply to streamline every thing, AMC is combining these two sequence and placing them underneath the umbrella of the Immortal Universe.
The Anne Rice catalog AMC acquired in 2020 consists of The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Story of the Physique Thief, Memnoch The Satan, The Vampire Armand, Pandora, Vittorio the Vampire, Blood and Gold, Prince Lestat, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, and Blood Communion: A Story of Prince Lestat; The Lives of the Mayfair Witches Trilogy: The Witching Hour, Lasher, and Taltos; and The Vampire Chronicles/The Lives of the Mayfair Witches Crossover Novels: Merrick, Blackwood Farm, and Blood Canticle.
What’s AMC’s Interview With the Vampire about?
Interview With the Vampire follows vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) as he recollects his life story to reporter Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian), which incorporates his gothic romance with vampire Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and his relationship with baby vampire Claudia de Pointe du Lac (Bailey Bass). It takes place in 2022, in Dubai, as Louis recounts his time in New Orleans with Lestat in the course of the early 1900s. There’s additionally Louis’ mysterious attendant, Rashid (Assad Zaman)…
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Who’s concerned in Interview With the Vampire?
Rolin Jones (Perry Mason, Friday Evening Lights) is the creator, showrunner and an govt producer for Interview. Mark Johnson (Breaking Unhealthy, Higher Name Saul, Halt and Catch Fireplace, Rectify), can also be an govt producer. Anne Rice, earlier than her dying in late 2021, and her son Christopher Rice are non-writing govt producers.
The season one writers have been principally playwrights; they included Coline Abert, Eleanor Burgess, Jonathan Ceniceroz, David B. Harris, Hannah Moscovitch, and Ben Philippe. The rating was by Daniel Hart, who additionally did the music for The Inexperienced Knight. Mara LePere-Schloop was the manufacturing designer and Carol Cutshall designed the costumes.
The place can I watch Interview With the Vampire?
The primary season is avaialble to stream on AMC+.
How is the tv present totally different from the 1994 film, Interview With the Vampire?
The massive distinction is Louis’ timeline and historical past has been modified. The film is way nearer to the e book and is a extra direct adaptation. Within the film, Louis has an interview with an unnamed journalist addressed solely as “the boy” in 1973. He provides out his life story, beginning as his time as a plantation proprietor in early 1800s Louisiana, with all the trimmings of landed Southern gentry, together with proudly owning slaves. He and Lestat are usually not explicitly concerned in a romantic relationship, however the relationship is obsessive and borders on the romantic at instances. Claudia can also be a lot youthful; she’s round 7-10 within the film, whereas within the books she was 5 when she was turned.
The sequence follows the identical emotional beats and plot line of the movie, however on the AMC present, Louis is a Black man in early 1900s New Orleans and the sequence focuses on his struggles with racism and bigotry within the metropolis. He and Lestat are additionally proven to be in a romantic relationship, and Louis explicitly describes himself as a homosexual man. Daniel Molloy, who was a minor character within the e book and the movie, is now a extra current, energetic character. Claudia has been aged as much as 14, and her story focuses on the relentlessness of showing to be a younger teenager endlessly.
What about Queen of the Damned? (You already know, the one with Aaliyah?)
There was no announcement but about adapting Queen of the Damned, however a number of the lore and characterization of Lestat within the Queen of the Damned novel made its manner into Interview With the Vampire. AMC may select to do restricted sequence of every e book, or it might proceed Interview With the Vampire by means of the remainder of the Vampire Chronicles novels, simply to maintain every thing in a single place, whereas additionally using probably the most well-known of the books for model recognition. However that is AMC’s Immortal Universe, and the community might go both manner.
Did io9 do episode recaps for Interview With the Vampire?
Positive did!
When is Interview With the Vampire’s second season popping out?
Most likely in late 2023, however that is only a guess. There’s been no announcement and as of December 2022, the writers are engaged on the scripts, so it’s in early levels of improvement. We all know that they’re presently filming in Prague. There was one casting announcement to this point: Ben Daniels (Basis, Jupiter’s Legacy, The Excorcist) will probably be enjoying the vampire Santiago. Deadline describes Santiago as “the main vamp thespian of the Theatre des Vampires who grows more and more suspicious of the American vampires Louis and Claudia.”
When is Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches popping out?
The eight-episode season kicked off on Sunday, January 8 and concluded on the finish of February. This is similar programming slot beforehand occupied by Interview With the Vampire, Breaking Unhealthy, and The Strolling Lifeless. There’s additionally a trailer for the sequence! Test it out under.
What’s the plot of Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches?
The official synopsis reads that Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches “follows a neurosurgeon who discovers that she is the unlikely inheritor to a household of witches. She should cope with a sinister presence that has haunted her household for generations.”
The present is predicated on the trilogy of novels by Anne Rice, that are known as the Lives of the Mayfair Witches. The three books embody The Witching Hour, Lasher, and Taltos.
Who’s concerned in The Mayfair Witches?
The present is govt produced by Mark Johnson. Esta Spaulding (Masters of Intercourse, On Changing into a God in Central Florida) and Michelle Ashford (Masters of Intercourse, The Pacific, John Adams) are each on as writers and govt producers of the sequence and co-showrunners. Solid members embody Alexandra Daddario as the primary character Rowan Fielding, Jack Huston as Lasher, Tongayi Chirisa as Ciprien, and Harry Hamlin as Cortland Mayfair.
The place can I watch The Mayfair Witches?
Episodes can be found to stream on AMC+, and it’ll air weekly on Sunday nights on AMC, beginning January 8.
Will there be a season two of Mayfair Witches?
Sure! It was renewed for a season two forward of its finale. Whereas critics appeared to present primarily unfavorable to lukewarm evaluations, there was an viewers for the present. We don’t know a lot concerning the new season, however it is going to probably embody extra crossover with the vampires of the Immortal Universe.
What else is popping out?
So glad you requested!! From an April 6 press launch, we’re getting The Evening Island and Obsessed With the Vampire. These are being launched as digital originals by way of the Content material Room, and we don’t have far more data aside from the under, although we’ll be updating this put up as we be taught extra.
Additionally a part of the Anne Rice universe, The Evening Island is a digital unique about an unique resort like no different, open solely from sundown to dawn, catering to an unique clientele of vampires and mortals, with strict guidelines in place that also can’t forestall every evening from turning right into a close to catastrophe. Based mostly on components inside Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned, this will probably be produced with Mark Johnson (who’s overseeing improvement of the whole Anne Rice universe) and his firm Gran By way of.
As AMC prepares to premiere Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampireas its subsequent franchise and universe later this yr, Obsessive about the Vampire is a digital post-show companion for the scripted sequence that provides a one-of-a-kind episode dialogue with superfan insights round seems to be, locales, design and all issues vampire tradition. The sequence will launch with Weekly Obsessions— a social content material characteristic and companion one-of-a-kind curated late-night store, solely open throughout vampire hours—and can culminate in an finish of the primary season Obsessive about the Vampire particular, unpacking each obsession worthy second of the epic first season.
Will AMC really make all the Vampire Chronicles books?
Who is aware of! The community actually has grand ambitions. It’s a superb risk it is going to deliver elements of varied Vampire Chronicles novels into each Interview With the Vampire season.
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