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# Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire gets series order at AMC
- URL: https://www.andrewliptak.com/anne-rices-interview-with-the-vampire-gets-series-order-at-amc/
- Published: 2021-06-24T21:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-09-12T14:20:57.000Z
- Author: Andrew Liptak
- Tags: News, Fantasy

After years of development, a television adaptation of Anne Rice’s vampire novel **Interview with the Vampire* is a go. [According to **The Hollywood Reporter*](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/interview-with-the-vampire-amc-series-anne-rice-1234973303/?ref=andrewliptak.com), the series will debut sometime in 2022 on AMC and AMC+, a year after the network first showed an interest in it.

**Perry Mason* co-creator and showrunner Rolin Jones will act as showrunner for this adaptation, while Mark Johnson (who’s worked on a number of AMC projects like **Breaking* **Bad* and **Halt and Catch Fire*) will serve as executive producer. According to **The Hollywood Reporter*, the network plans to build out a much larger Vampire Chronicles universe with this series, much like it’s done with **The Walking Dead* series. Rice and her son Christopher will also act as executive producers.

**Interview with the Vampire* was Rice’s breakout hit back in 1976: It follows the story of a vampire named Louis de Pointe du Lac as he recounts his story to a reporter, starting in 1791 when he meets a vampire named Lestat de Lioncourt. The story details their complicated relationship (along with that of a vampire stuck in the body of a five-year-old girl named Claudia). The book was previously adapted into a film in 1994, starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt (pictured above). Rice has since continued the story across thirteen installments, which will give AMC plenty of material to work with.

A television adaptation of Rice’s series has been in the works for a while. In 2017, she [noted](https://www.facebook.com/annericefanpage/posts/10154794260300452) that the rights for the series had reverted back to her, after which Paramount [optioned](https://deadline.com/2017/04/the-vampire-chronicles-tv-series-paramount-tv-anonymous-content-anne-rice-books-1202079083/?ref=andrewliptak.com) them with an eye towards a television adaptation, bringing Bryan Fuller in to consult on the project. Hulu then picked up the series in 2018, [but ultimately passed on it](https://www.tor.com/2019/12/20/hulu-anne-rice-vampire-chronicles-passed/?ref=andrewliptak.com) a year later.

From that point, the [series moved over to AMC](https://www.tor.com/2020/05/13/anne-rice-vampire-chronicles-mayfair-witches-amc-tv-show/?ref=andrewliptak.com), where it would fit nicely alongside other genre-related shows like **The Walking Dead* franchise, **NOS4A2* (based on Joe Hill’s novel), **The Terror* (based on Dan Simmons’ novel), and the forthcoming **Pantheon* (based on some short stories by Ken Liu).