Lestat and his vampiric cohort aren’t the only ones coming to TV. Anne Rice’s other major supernatural creations, the Mayfair family of witches, are now officially joining them on AMC. And The White Lotus‘s Alexandra Daddario is set to star in the series, based on Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches novels. According to Variety, which broke the news, Daddario plays Rowan “a brilliant doctor who grapples with her fate as the heir to a family of powerful witches.”
Esta Spalding and Michelle Ashford (Masters of Sex) are both executive producers and writers of the series. Spalding will serve as showrunner.
Here’s the official description:
The series will focus on an intuitive young neurosurgeon who discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. As she grapples with her newfound powers, she must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations.
So far, this sounds pretty in line with the books. The first book of the Mayfair Witches saga was the 1990’s The Witching Hour. The novel focused on a neurosurgeon named Rowan Mayfair, who discovers she is the latest designee in a family of powerful witches. All of whom have lived in New Orleans for generations. These witches commune and often control a powerful spirit named Lasher. In fact, Lasher is the name of the second book in the Mayfair Witches trilogy, arriving in 1993. The following year, the final novel in the saga, Taltos, hit bookstores. Rice’s Garden District house was actually the setting of the Mayfair’s ancestral home in the novels.
AMC picked the series up for an eight-episode season one in late 2021. Spalding and Ashford said: “The world of witches has fascinated and terrified for centuries. And yet Anne Rice’s particular lens on witches explored something new altogether. Women who are powerful, often brutal, and always committed to subverting our current power structures. We are so excited to join our partners AMC and Gran Via Productions in making this mysterious and provocative world come to life.”
The Vampire Chronicles and Mayfair Witches sharing a TV home, means a crossover isn’t out of the question. They do, after all, share a universe. Rice eventually did so in a series of novels, but they weren’t well received by fans at the time. Maybe this on-screen crossover will fare better.
Interestingly, both of AMC’s Anne Rice adaptions are set to debut this year. AMC has already teased Interview with the Vampire will drop in fall 2022. And it looks like Mayfair Witches, will debut soon after.
Originally published on December 1, 2021.
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