Editorial Staff
Anne Rice’s small-screen take on her best-selling “Vampire Chronicles” book series has bit the dust – temporarily, anyway.
The series was originally set up at Hulu with Paramount Television and Anonymous Content producing but their rights have expired so Rice is now free to find a new home for her property.
Variety reports that the “Interview with the Vampire” author & her team are once again shopping her intellectual property — but this time as a much larger TV package, and as a complete buyout of the TV/film rights.
According to one insider, the new package being shopped includes both “The Vampire Chronicles” and also Rice’s “Mayfair Witches,” which is currently set up at Warner Bros. The asking price is said to be around $30 to $40 million, in addition to a $2.5 million buyout of Warner Bros.’ rights. In exchange for the huge upfront fee however, the new owner will hold the rights in perpetuity, and not just as an option.
Rice was set to write the pilot script for the Hulu series with son Christopher Rice.
