AMC Studios announced plans to open a writer's room where they will explore adapting Anne Rice's supernatural horror trilogy Lives of the Mayfair Witches into a TV series for AMC and AMC+.

　　Lives of the Mayfair Witches follows Rowan Mayfair, a neurosurgeon who discovers she is the heir to a family of witches and is thrusted into facing a dark presence that plagues her family with her newfound powers. Lives of the Mayfair Witches will be the second book from Rice to be adapted into a TV series alongside Interview with the Vampire which is greenlit for a 2022 release. Both The Vampire Chronicles and The Lives of the Mayfair series have sold over 150 million copies worldwide.

　　AMC Networks acquired the rights to 18 titles of Rice's works in 2020 to develop for TV networks and streaming services, with Rice and her son, Christopher Rice, serving as executive producers.

　　Dan McDermott, president of original programming for AMC Networks and AMC Studios said AMC has enormous ambition for Rice's works and feel gratified to be able to explore greenlighting a second series of Rice's after greenlighting Interview with the Vampire.

　　"We take our responsibility to deliver compelling television to both existing and new fans of this material incredibly seriously, as we move deliberately to develop these titles into a new franchise and universe for AMC+ and AMC," McDermott said.

　　Mark Johnson, award-winning TV producer for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, will develop Rice's collection into a streaming and TV universe. Esta Spaulding and Michelle Ashford, former writers of Masters of Sex, will serve as Lives of the Mayfair Witches' writers and executive producers with Spaulding also as the showrunner.

　　"It is gratifying to be moving so quickly from the 'Interview' greenlight to exploring a second series with such talented and accomplished writers and creators as Esta and Michelle," McDermott said.

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