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Author Anne Rice’s well-traveled Vampire Chronicles novels have found a new TV home.
AMC Networks has entered an agreement to acquire rights to both The Vampire Chronicles series and Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches. Together the two series encompass 18 books, including three crossovers between the two series.
AMC will develop projects based on the books via its AMC Studios banner. Rolin Jones (Friday Night Lights, HBO’s upcoming Perry Mason), who recently signed an overall deal
with the cabler, will be involved in developing projects from the Rice
catalog for TV. The author and her son, Christopher Rice, will be
executive producers of all TV and film projects that result from the
deal.
“There is no shortage of content in today’s competitive environment,
but proven IP that has captivated millions of fans around the world is
something very special and rare, and that is what Anne Rice has
created,” said Sarah Barnett, president of AMC Networks Entertainment
Group and AMC Studios. “These remarkable stories and characters are
massive in their appeal, and we are privileged to take over stewardship
of these legendary works and collaborate with a talent like Rolin Jones
to find ways for new generations of fans to experience these worlds.”
Remembering Michele Rice 47 years after her death, and delving into the symbolism of Claudia.
This is a very sad post, and I have a lot of sympathy for Anne Rice. This is a painful anniversary for her. Sheās sharing it with us probably for a lot of reasons but Iām taking it as her telling us, her readers, that sheās survived this devastating loss, we all deal with death, and that maybe others can draw some comfort from the fact that she understands what itās like to mourn, too. Writing has that power, to show that our experiences are relatable, and that maybe we can help each other heal from wounds that might seem fatal.
So we reach into the raging chaos, and we pluck some small glittering thing, and we cling to it, and tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we areĀ not evil, and we will all go home in the end. - Tale of the Body Thief
ā¦Also, not to derail things (SHE brought it up!) Iām so grateful that Anne took this opportunity to clarify that Louis and Lestat are MARRIED ALREADY soā¦ I think that should settle THAT debate?? Word of God is illegitimate *handwaves* but itās something more than her dancing around it calling them omnisexual for all these years soā¦Ā
He looked to Gabrielle, who stood near the fire, and then to me. And silently, he said, Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me. This silent entreaty had an eloquence, however, that I can’t put into words. “What can I do to make you love me? ” he whispered. “What can I give? The knowledge of all I have witnessed, the secrets of our powers, the mystery of what I am?”
Armand and Lestat, The Vampire Lestat (1985)-Anne Rice
“Fool,” he said again. His voice was roughened now by emotion he couldn’t suppress. “I have always loved you,” he said. “I have loved you more than any being in all the world whom I’ve ever loved. I have loved you more than Louis. I have loved you more even than Marius. And you have never given me your love. I would be your most faithful counselor, if you allowed it. But you don’t. Your eyes pass over me as if I don’t exist. And so they always have.”
Armand and Lestat, Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat (2018) -Anne Rice
"Of course Louis released Rose and then he bowed just as if he were at a ball in old New Orleans after the opera. I came up beside him and took his hand.
“What are you doing?” he asked.
“Dancing with you,” I said. I turned him easily this way and that to the music. I could see he found this immediately awkward, to be dancing with me as a woman might dance with a man, and then something playful and vibrant came into his eyes. He gave himself up to it. I turned us around fast twice and then three times, and we broke the pattern and then my arm slipped around his waist and I danced beside him, in step with him, like the Greek men do it. “Do you like this better?” I asked.
“I don’t know,” he said. He appeared brimming with happiness. But I was the one truly brimming with happiness. The music seemed to move us as if we were powerless, borne along exquisitely, and then we faced each other again and we were simply dancing in a loose, comfortable embrace, intimate, making one body and then two bodies, and one body again. All around us were dancers, dancers pressing in so that at last we were dancing without really moving our feet. But what did it matter? One can dance that way. One can dance a thousand ways."
"I love you with my whole soul, and I will always love you,ā he confided to me. āYou are my life. I have hated you for that and love you now so much that youāve been my instructor in loving. And believe me when I say you will survive this, and that you must for all of us. You will survive because you always have and you always will."
"I was working on a novel called Born for Atlantis, and I just couldnāt get it to work. I thought, āWhat if I could somehow combine this with Lestat and the vampires?ā And it was like, everything worked. Something happens to me when I write from Lestatās point of view. Thereās no question about it. By the time I was done, it felt inevitable, like it always had beenā¦. It was a rare experience."
So, @roselioncourt brings this article to our attention, and I think the relevant quote is above, but there’s a little more about AR’s interest in Atlantis in there.
The relevance is that AR had been working on this Atlantis book and added VC into it later. We’ll see how well that works, but this is an answer to the question, “Atlantis… what?”
“Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds – justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can’t go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.”
Attention, fans of Loustat! I took one for the team and messaged Mater about whether we would see any more scenes between them in the next book (I mean, Louis being dropped is a constant fear, lbr). Here’s her response!
I just truly believe this to be the universal experience of all Anne Rice fans, and some of us been up and down the lollercoaster a few times so far, and some of us haven’t had to deal with it yet. AND I PROMSE ALL THE LITTLE SUMMER CHILDREN, IT’S COMING.
She’s a divisive and controversial writer for sure, on a lot of layered meta levels that aren’t just like mainstream casual normies thinking the books are scandalous or something. Tumblr is obviously a place where injustices aren’t ignored and it takes about five minutes of browsing to start finding the deeper readings of her work, the bad topics and sketchy opinions, etc etc. It’s so easy to just enjoy her work on the surface and it’s just such a fucking mess when you look closer.
AND I MEAN THAT’S THE THING? I know people get suuuuuuper salty about Anne Rice and it’s always kind of crushing when people learn about the fandom history but like YALL I WAS THERE, I’M OVER IT LOL. I had the salty Anne Rice phase already and it took me like 4 years to bring myself to read Blood Canticle cause I was like So Done With Her Shit at that point.
Are these books good and interesting enough to keep me this occupied on their own? Probably not. But they were really special to me growing up and I found cool fandom people and made genuinely awesome friends here so it’s become a weird hobby to have. I’M STUCK HERE NOW.
I get the AR hate, I really do. I really, really do. I get the whole “omg I waited for the new book and it was about bird aliens” devastation. I REALLY DO. But we all go through this if you stick around for too long. I went through it already, it’s out of my system. I’m done being pissy about it. (tbh I went through this when I read Merrick the first time and I was like wtf I thought this was gonna be an epic crossover with Rowan getting into some shit and instead we’re reading about David fucking some chick in a cave what IS THIS. And that was like 15 years ago LMAO.)
Some people interact with media by criticizing and dissecting and that’s super awesome, other people want to be brainless and just dick around and make memes. I have a stressful life and I deal with heavy shit pretty often so I’m not here to like sling negativity in any form, that’s just not how I like to use my energy and free time. It doesn’t make it less valuable, it’s just not my thing. I put the time in with salty AR years, I’m done, I’m just here to laugh now. AND LAUGH I DO.
AND LIKE IF THERE’S ONE THING I CAN SAY? A PIECE OF ADVICE TO THE NEWBS WHO HAVEN’T GONE THROUGH IT? Stop having expectations. Read enough AR to see that she’s fucking whacky af. Read Taltos. Read the werewolf book. When the new VC comes out, go in expecting that writer. Don’t go in expecting QOTD 2. If shredding books is fun for you, by all means! Knock yourself out! There will be plenty to shred! But if you’re here for fun just go in for fun. It’s lulzy as fuck if you don’t take it too seriously.
did i write this post in my sleep!
#PREACH (Um I think I co-wrote this w/ nightislandofficial and monstersinthecosmos in my sleep, too)
