Vampires had been solely the start, it appears. The AMC community has simply introduced that its adaptation of Anne Rice’s beloved novel Interview With the Vampire (which not too long ago solid Sam Reid as Lestat) can be joined by a Mayfair Witches collection, primarily based on Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches guide trilogy.

Although the books, which got here out within the early Nineteen Nineties, had been all bestsellers upon publication, they’re not almost as effectively often known as Rice’s Interview With the Vampire and the Vampire Chronicles collection it kicked off. Mayfair Witches appears fairly sophisticated, however listed below are the fundamentals. Like lots of Rice’s books, it’s set primarily in New Orleans, the place a health care provider named Rowen Mayfair discovers she’s the most recent in a long-time household of highly effective witches. Of course, it’s not almost so simple as that, as there’s multi-generational drama, a secret society poking about, and a mysterious, evil entity named Lasher that has haunted the household for hundreds of years in hopes of regaining a corporeal physique.

Having learn the Wikipedia summaries for the three Mayfair books, my query is: how within the hell is AMC going to adapt this? Because the books appear to be stuffed with sexual violence, taboo-breaking, and different fairly upsetting issues. Just omitting the presumed nudity wouldn’t mitigate these scenes’ problematic cores in any respect, particularly when it comes to their sheer quantity. I suppose the community should have some concept of how you can adapt the present with out it making Game of Thrones’ many issues considerably tame as compared, however we’ll see.

Characters from the Mayfair Witches novels make appearances in three books within the Vampire Chronicles collection, that means if all goes effectively for the 2 collection the potential for a crossover is sort of excessive. In complete, AMC has the live-action adaptation rights to 18 of the creator’s novels, so likelihood is Interview and Mayfair are solely the start of this burgeoning Rice-a-verse.

Esta Spaulding and Michelle Ashford, who each labored on Showtime’s collection Masters of Sex, will each write and produce Mayfair Witches, whereas Spaulding can even function the showrunner. The present has a really generalized launch date of 2022, as does Interview With the Vampire. We’ll preserve you posted.

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