Maisie Richardson-Sellers of The Originals and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow has joined the Anne Rice sequence The Talamasca
A yr and a half in the past, we heard that AMC was growing a 3rd TV sequence based mostly 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. Earlier this yr, the present – which goes by the working title of The Talamasca – was formally ordered to sequence, with the plan being for episodes to begin airing someday in 2025. Now, Selection has damaged the information that Maisie Richardson-Sellers of The Originals and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow has landed a sequence common position on the present!
This entry within the franchise that AMC is asking the Anne Rice Immortal Universe will observe a secretive society referred to as the Talamasca that’s chargeable 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.
Richardson-Sellers’ co-stars on the present will embody Nicholas Denton of Glitch and Harmful Liasions, who has been solid as a personality named Man Anatole, Elizabeth McGovern of Downton Abbey, and William Fichtner of Warmth and The Darkish Knight.
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 enjoying 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 chief of its New York Motherhouse. She has lengthy suspected that London’s Motherhouse has fallen beneath the affect of traitorous components, and a mysterious demise prompts her to recruit Man Anatole (Denton), who will turn into her protégé.“
Richardson-Sellers might be enjoying 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.”
John Lee Hancock, whose credit embody The Blind Facet and the Stephen King adaptation Mr. Harrigan’s Telephone, is writing the Talamasca sequence and might be serving as showrunner alongside Mark Lafferty of The Proper Stuff and Halt and Catch Hearth. Hancock can even be directing the primary episode. All of AMC’s Anne Rice initiatives are produced by AMC Studios and government produced by Mark Johnson.
Dan McDermott, president of leisure and AMC Studios for AMC Networks, offered the next assertion when the sequence was introduced: “This can be a story we’ve been growing and wanting to inform from the earliest moments of this franchise, centered on an interesting and compelling secret society that has already appeared in each of our current Anne Rice sequence, 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 company that, to me, had greater than a passing resemblance to the CIA or MI6, that are mandatory however not all the time essentially clear. A company with its personal secrets and techniques. Fortunately, Dan McDermott preferred the take and so did Mark Lafferty, who’s so gifted and completed on this planet of tv. Many due to everybody from Gran Through to Mark Lafferty, to our gifted 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 stay up for presenting a 3rd sequence within the Anne Rice Immortal Universe.“
Are you a fan of Interview with the Vampire (you possibly can learn our overview of the primary season HERE and the second HERE) and/or Mayfair Witches (our overview of that present’s first season is HERE), and are you interested by seeing what John Lee Hancock and AMC do with Anne Rice’s The Talamasca? What do you consider Maisie Richardson-Sellers becoming a member of the solid? Tell us by leaving a remark beneath.
