In addition to “Interview with the Vampire”, AMC prepares the adaptation of another literary saga by Anne Rice: ‘The Witches of Mayfair’, a series of novels set in the same universe as the “Vampire Chronicles” and tells the story of family members and their connection with a spirit that wants to have a physical body and reproduce. The Wrap released the first images of the series on Wednesday 10 August with Alexandra Daddario, Jack Huston, Harry Hamlin and Tongayi Chirisa.
The Mayfair Witches by Anne Rice, the first photos of the cast. Get ready, world. pic.twitter.com/B6TleEiVIg
? Jim Maiella (@jimmaiella) August 10, 2022
“The first photos of Anne Rice’s ‘Mayfair Witches’ cast. Get ready, world.”
The series revolves around the character of Daddario, the neurosurgeon Rowan Fielding, a brilliant woman who discovers she is the heir to a family of witches. As she struggles with her new powers, she reads the synopsis, He will have to deal with a sinister presence that has haunted his family for generations. Hamlin plays Cortland Mayfair, Rowan’s father; Chirisa is Ciprien Grieve and Huston is Lasher, the spirit who wants to return to Earth. In the series, written by Esta Spalding and Michelle Ashford, we will also see Beth Grant and Jen Richards, although they do not appear in these promotional images.
Together, but not rebel
The series was presented in the panel that the chain had in the Summer press tour of the Television Critics Association, conferences that this group of journalists and columnists from the United States and Canada specializing in television organize twice a year, in winter and summer. It has been revealed that production of the first season is currently underway in New Orleans, which will wrap up at the end of August and that they hope to premiere it in early 2023. Its executive producer, Mark Johnson, has announced that there will be. winks between ‘Mayfair Witches’ and ‘Vampire Interview’, but that both series will remain separate at least during the first few seasons. Dan McDermott, president of entertainment at AMC Studios and AMC Networks, announced months ago that he has unofficial plans to launch an interconnected universe of Anne Rice’s work when he acquired the rights to 18 of her books.
Source: E Cartelera
