Producer and novelist Anne Rice recently announced that she is leaning towards adapting the "Vampire Chronicles" into a prolonged TV series. She has just regained the theatrical rights to the series of books and may be putting fresh inputs into the story.
CBR relates that the added fresh vampire blood will be coming from her son Christopher Rice with whom she has linked up with for the adaptation of the books into a continuing movie series. Her plan is to create a TV series where Lestat, Louis, Marius, Armand and the rest of the blood sucking species can thrive in and relate their stories.
Realizing what fans would like in a movie series, Rice is planning to develop an epic similar to the "Games of Thrones" where the movie characters become endeared to viewers through its long and remarkable episodes. She realizes that this is what fans like from their comments and feedbacks.
Entertainment Weekly has reported that there are still many stories to tell as only two of the eleven books in the series have been used for films. The first book was used for the movie "Interview with a Vampire" in 1994 which was starred by Tom Cruise as the vampire Lestat and Christine Dunst as his overly young apprentice. The second book was for the 2012 bmovie "Queen of the Damned" where Aaliyah and Richard Townsend as main characters.
The planned "Vampire Chronicles" movie series will have a lot of stories to base its story lines from since there are nine more books remaining that has not yet been adapted for film. Actually, there is a 12th book in the making which is set to be released before the end of this year.Anne Rice
With this developments, fans expect Anne Rice to give what they crave for, a telling movie about the adventures of Lestat and his tribe that are already written the books which Rice wants to turn into an epic vampire horror story. Undoubtedly, this is what "Vampire Chronicles" movie series will be all about.
