Author Anne Rice is responsible for one of the biggest connected universes out there and it’s rarely discussed in a world of MCUs, DCUs and Dark Towers, but her so-called Immortal Universe is about to get much, much bigger.
Kicking off in 2022, the Immortal Universe began with AMC’s Interview with the Vampire TV series and then in 2023 it expanded with The Mayfair Witches series and now it’s about to get two new additions.
AMC bringing Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles to life in shared television universe
First up, with season two having just aired of Interview with the Vampire, the story of Rice’s first novel of the same name is now wrapped and season three, now subtitled The Vampire Lestat, will adapt the second book in Rice’s series and will see Sam Reid come to the fore as Lestat de Lioncourt, leaving Jacob Anderson’s Louis more in the background.
The series is now filming and is expected to arrive in 2026 and promises a more musical outing as Letat becomes a rock star in the 1970s this time out and the first teaser poster is on the left.
Season three will pick up immediately after the events of season two: “It’s deep, but it’s actually very fun and silly because Lestat is a big clown, so he is not as chest-bearing as others,” Reid says.
“Well, he’s actually quite chest-bearing. He’s very chest-bearing, but in a different way! If he’s unreliable, he’s intentionally being unreliable as opposed to being potentially hoodwinked by a series of events. Lestat is slightly different [than Louis], I would say. They’re both unreliable in their own way, but I don’t think one is more or less than the other. One might be more intentional than the other.”
Up next, we’re getting Talamasca: The Secret Order, which, while not based on a book per se, is based on a the organisation in Rice’s novels that track and contain supernatural creatures around the world – think The Men of Letters from Supernatural or The Initiative from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and you’re getting the idea.
The first season of Talamasca: The Secret Order will be six episodes and is expected to air on AMC this October.
Executive producer and overseer Mark Johnson said of the series: “John Lee Hancock has created the world of The Talamasca, all of it inspired by [Rice’s] work but taken a certain amount of liberty, hopefully at the same time always being faithful to what she might have done with the Talamasca had she done a book on them.”
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He describes it as “kind of a spy show, almost a John le Carré with elements of the supernatural in it.”
The cast will have Nicholas Denton stars as Guy Anatole, Celine Buckens as Doris, along with Elizabeth McGovern, William Fichtner, and Maisie Richardson-Sellers.
Talamasca: The Secret Order is likely the series that will link Interview with the Vampire and The Mayfair Witches, as the organisation and characters in it weave throughout both book series, and Mayfair Witches season one has already set up one of the Order’s main characters.
This is an exciting expansion for Rice’s world – you all know by now that I love a good shared universe – but Johnson believes this is only the beginning of the expansion: “I think we could do four or five,” he says.
Check out the first poster for Talamasca: The Secret Order:
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