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Further big screen adventures based on Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles seem unlikely now that the author has regained the rights to her creation.

“The theatrical rights to the Vampire Chronicles are once again in my hands, free and clear!” Rice announced on Facebook on November 28. “As many of you know, Universal Studios and Imagine Entertainment had optioned the series to develop motion pictures from it, and though we had the pleasure of working with many fine people in connection with this plan, it did not work out. It is, more than ever, abundantly clear that television is where the vampires belong.”

Rice and her son Christopher will be executive producers on the future iterations. “A television series of the highest quality is now my dream for Lestat, Louis, Armand, Marius and the entire tribe. In this the new Golden Age of television, such a series is THE way to let the entire story of the vampires unfold… My son Christopher Rice and I will be developing a pilot script and a detailed outline for an open ended series, faithfully presenting Lestat’s story as it is told in the books, complete with the many situations that readers expect to see. We will likely begin with ‘The Vampire Lestat’ and move on from there.”