A pair years in the past, we heard that AMC was growing a 3rd TV collection primarily based on the works of Anne Rice, including to the franchise they’ve been constructing out of the Vampire Chronicles novels and the Mayfair Witch books written by Rice. Final yr, the present – which goes by the title of Talamasca: The Secret Order – was formally ordered to collection, with the plan being for episodes to begin airing someday in 2025. Now, AMC has introduced an October 26th premiere date for the present and unveiled a teaser trailer, which may be considered within the embed above.
This entry within the franchise that AMC is looking the Anne Rice Immortal Universe will comply with a secretive society referred to as the Talamasca that’s accountable for monitoring and containing witches, vampires, werewolves and different creatures. Members of the Talamasca have already been launched within the AMC reveals Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire and Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches.
The forged consists of Nicholas Denton of Glitch and Harmful Liasions, Elizabeth McGovern of Downton Abbey and She’s Having a Child, Maisie Richardson-Sellers of The Originals and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, William Fichtner of Warmth and The Darkish Knight, Céline Buckens of Battle Horse and Free Rein, and Jason Schwartzman of Rushmore and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, with Eric Bogosian making a visitor look as his Interview with the Vampire character Daniel Molloy.
Denton’s character Man Anatole is “brilliant, handsome and sharp on the surface, but he’s always known his mind works a little differently. On the cusp of graduating law school, he is approached by a representative of the Talamasca, a secretive agency that monitors and protects us from the supernatural world. When Guy learns that the Talamasca has been tracking him since his childhood, he falls headlong into a world of secret agents and immortal beings who, up to now, have maintained a fragile balance with the mortal world. But for that balance to hold, and for Guy to survive, he will have to learn to embrace the dark, treacherous depths of his true and singular self.”
Fichtner is taking part in Jasper, “a mysterious American who has quietly assumed control and influence over the Talamasca’s London Motherhouse. Though his motives and methods are cloaked in shadow, his charm and righteous sense of purpose are as dangerous as the power he’s pursuing.” McGovern’s character is Helen, “a seasoned veteran of the Talamasca, and the leader of its New York Motherhouse. She has long suspected that London’s Motherhouse has fallen under the influence of traitorous elements, and a mysterious death prompts her to recruit Guy Anatole (Denton), who will become her protégé.“ Richardson-Sellers plays Olive, “a beguiling and ambitious agent of the Talamasca, assigned to be Guy Anatole’s (Denton) American handler. She is deft with information and a master of disguises in the old tradition of spy craft.” Buckens’ character is Doris, “an old soul who lives with a coven of witches on a houseboat.” Schwartzman is Burton, “a rakish vampire main a cloistered life in an opulent Higher West Aspect penthouse.“
John Lee Hancock, whose credit embody The Blind Aspect and the Stephen King adaptation Mr. Harrigan’s Telephone, is writing the Talamasca collection and serves as showrunner alongside Mark Lafferty of The Proper Stuff and Halt and Catch Hearth. Hancock directed the primary episode. All of AMC’s Anne Rice initiatives are produced by AMC Studios and govt produced by Mark Johnson.
Dan McDermott, president of leisure and AMC Studios for AMC Networks, supplied the next assertion when the collection was introduced: “This can be a story we’ve been growing and wanting to inform from the earliest moments of this franchise, targeted on an interesting and compelling secret society that has already appeared in each of our present Anne Rice collection, the Talamasca. As with all of those reveals, we’re thrilled to have such a excessive degree of expertise concerned, represented right here by John Lee Hancock and Mark Lafferty, and naturally working carefully with producer Mark Johnson because the inventive head of our Anne Rice Immortal Universe.“
Hancock added: “This all began for me with a name from Mark Johnson, who requested if I’d ever heard of the Talamasca. I used to be intrigued by the concept of a corporation that, to me, had greater than a passing resemblance to the CIA or MI6, that are vital however not at all times essentially clear. A corporation with its personal secrets and techniques. Fortunately, Dan McDermott favored the take and so did Mark Lafferty, who’s so proficient and completed on the earth of tv. Many due to everybody from Gran Through to Mark Lafferty, to our proficient writers and everybody at AMC, who’ve been supporters, advocates and cheerleaders from day one. I couldn’t be extra thrilled to be concerned and look ahead to presenting a 3rd collection within the Anne Rice Immortal Universe.“
Are you a fan of Interview with the Vampire (you possibly can learn our assessment of the primary season HERE and the second HERE) and/or Mayfair Witches (our assessment of that present’s first season is HERE), and are you interested by seeing what John Lee Hancock and AMC do with Talamasca: The Secret Order? Tell us by leaving a remark beneath.
