The acclaimed "The Vampire Chronicles" book series written by Anne Rice will be adapted and soon to air as a TV series. The confirmation came after Anne Rice posted on her Facebook page the details about it.
"The Vampire Chronicles" is a series of novels which tells the story about the French nobleman Lestat de Lioncourt who turned into a vampire. Anne Rice first wrote "Interview with the Vampire" in 1976 which was later adapted into a 1994 film starring Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater and Kirsten Dunst.
The first novel of "The Vampire Chronicles" was not the last novel that was adapted into a film. In 2002, Anne Rice's novel was turned into a film under the same title "The Queen of the Damned." In 2014, Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have acquired the rights to the entire series' motion picture. However, Anne Rice announced on her Facebook page that she acquired back the theatrical rights to her novels.
According to Collider, the film franchise of "The Vampire Chronicles" was apparently cancelled due to the availability "The Fault in our Stars" director Josh Boone. The director is reported to be busy with the adaptation of "The Stand" and with X-Men spinoff "New Mutants."
With this situation at hand, "The Vampire Chronicles" is left hanging whether the novel series will still be adapted as a film. However, Anne Rice surprised everyone with her Facebook post that her novels are better to unfold as a TV series. Rice shared that the TV series with a highest quality "is now my dream for Lestat, Louis, Armand, Marius and the entire tribe."
Anne Rice told her followers that the development of "The Vampire Chronicles" as a film did not work as a plan with Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment. She believes that the vampire story she wrote clearly belongs to television, Entertainment Weekly reported.
Meanwhile, Anne Rice together with her son, Christopher Rice are currently developing a pilot script and an outline for "The Vampire Chronicles" TV adaptation. The two will serve as the executive producers before they will offer it to networks who will be interested in the series.
