Get ready to see plentiful vamp-tastic tales on both the big and small screen, for Anne Rice has agreed a deal for her works to be adapted by AMC.

Courtesy of Variety, AMC Networks has acquired a package that gives them the film and TV rights to develop Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles and The Lives of the Mayfair Witches. Both Rice and her son Christopher will serve as executive producers on any such movie or TV projects.

Between the two aforementioned book series, there are a total of 18 titles which sold a combined figure of over 150 million copies across the globe.

Previously, 2018 saw Hulu looking to develop a TV take on The Vampire Chronicles, while back in 2014 there was the prospect of Universal Pictures turning the property into a movie franchise. Neither of those projects ever really got off the ground.

Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles began life back in 1976 with Interview with the Vampire, and the most recent tale was 2018’s Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat. And from there, we had the spin-off of The Lives of the Mayfair Witches stories.

Of course, The Vampire Chronicles has already been brought to big-screen life previously, with 1994’s adaptation of Interview with the Vampire starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, and Antonio Banderas. Then, 2002’s Aaliyah and Stuart Townsend-starring Queen of the Damned pulled inspiration from both The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned books.

As ever, expect more on all of this as it continues to develop.

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