PRISON BREAK STAR JOINS ANNE RICE'S THE TALAMASCA SERIES IN MAJOR ROLE
The Dark Knight's William Fichtner joins Anne Rice and AMC's Immortal Universe in the upcoming The Talamasca series.
Per AMC, Fichtner has officially signed on for a leading role on the upcoming series, Anne Rice's The Talamasca, in the role of Jasper, an enigmatic American who has somehow seated himself at the heights of power within the Talamasca's Motherhouse in London. Fichtner will be joined by Nicholas Denton as Guy Anatole, the latest person to fall under the watchful eye of the series' eponymous secret organization.
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The official breakdown of Denton's character explains that the series opens with Guy "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."
The Talamasca Is the Third Series in AMC's Immortal Universe
Anne Rice's The Talamasca marks the third series in AMC's Immortal Universe, which began with 2022's Interview with the Vampire and was continued with 2023's Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches. Unlike the other two series in the Immortal Universe, The Talamasca never had a dedicated novel or series of books of its own. Instead, the members of the secret society who monitor and track the various supernatural beings of the world only ever appeared in other titles by Anne Rice, including both The Vampire Chronicles and Lives of the Mayfair Witches lines of novels.
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In June, Interview with the Vampire and Mayfair Witches executive producer Mark Johnson discussed the kinds of crossovers that fans can expect to see take place between the three Immortal Universe series in the near future.
"With the shows that we're making and developing, they arenât directly connected," Johnson noted. "With that said, we're discovering that there are some characters that it does work with. There's somebody from Interview thatâs going to appear in Mayfair Witches, but she's much more complicated than I thought she was. In the feature world, I did the three Chronicles of Narnia and it was very easy to figure out different characters you could interlace. That's not the case here."
Anne Rice's The Talamasca is currently expected to arrive sometime in 2025.
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Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches
Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches is a supernatural drama series that follows neurosurgeon Dr. Rowan Fielding (Alexandra Daddario) as she discovers her lineage to a family of powerful witches. Adapted from Anne Rice's Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy, the show delves into themes of power, legacy, and dark forces, with a compelling mix of drama and mysticism. The series is produced by AMC Studios with Esta Spalding and Michelle Ashford as showrunners.
Summary
Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches is a TV adaptation of the Lives of the Mayfair Witches novel series. It tells the story of a witch family with their legacy and future tied to a dangerous and powerful spirit. Alexandra Daddario stars as Dr. Rowan Fielding, a young neurosurgeon who inherits the Mayfair estate after the death of her estranged mother. Strange deaths and disappearances surround the estate, and Rowan slowly becomes aware of a power long dormant in her. Her relatives, other Mayfair witches, have been contending with an evil spirit in the home that has been a part of it for ages - and now Rowan will find herself at the center of it all. The Mayfair Witches is part of an ongoing effort to convert the entirety of Anne Rice's works into a television universe and will air on AMC+ on January 5 2023.