Now that Mayfair Witches has wrapped its second season, there’s extra from the Anne Rice Universe to return throughout the 2025 TV schedule between the third season of Interview with the Vampire and The Talamasca. And if we’ve realized something from the latest season of Mayfair Witches, it’s that the TV reveals primarily based on Rice’s books completely can cross over. However how might that occur sooner or later? One in every of AMC’s very personal Mayfair Witches shared an superior concept after being an avid reader of the creator.
When CinemaBlend spoke to Jen Richards, who, in fact, performs Jojo Mayfair within the collection, in regards to the newest season of Mayfair Witches, she shared her ideas on how the witches and vampires might collide extra. In her phrases:
Later in [Anne Rice’s] life too, she did extra crossover books. Merrick is considered one of my favourite books which is a Mayfair who additionally ultimately turns into a vampire. That is a spoiler, however the guide’s been out for a very long time. However, like there’s so many nice characters and nice alternatives.
In Anne Rice’s 2000 novel, Merrick, characters from her Vampire Chronicles and Mayfair Witches truly cross over! It follows Louis de Pointe du Lac, who Jacob Anderson performs within the collection. He begins being haunted by the spirit of Claudia, a baby who was changed into a vampire way back by Lestat de Lioncourt – performed by Sam Reid within the Interview With The Vampire collection (which is among the finest vampire TV reveals ever by the best way).
Louis finally ends up asking for the assistance of a witch named Merrick Mayfair to make use of her powers to contact Claudia’s ghost. The guide definitely has the presence of the Talamasca concerned, as Merrick herself is a former agent with the group. As Richards shared in our interview, through the occasions of the guide, Merrick is changed into a vampire later within the novel.
There are 13 books within the Vampire Chronicles, and it’s definitely fascinating to listen to from Jen Richards how Mayfair Witches might cross over additional in with the Anne Rice universe resulting from some supply materials that already exists from the creator. Richards would even like to adapt the novel herself. As she additionally stated:
I imply, we’re all a part of the identical household, you already know. It is the identical manufacturing firm, there’s overlap with among the crew. And I am simply an enormous fan of the present, so I need to really feel a part of that household . I am simply actually excited. It feels wealthy to be a part of a sort of prolonged universe, and realizing as an enormous Anne Rice fan, all of the totally different instructions that the tales can go. I am a author at first and like there is a couple different Anne Rice novels that I’d like to adapt, I believe could be nice for the display. There’s numerous actually nice characters.
We’ll definitely need to see how AMC’s Anne Rice Universe continues to evolve as Interview With The Vampire and The Talamasca launch later this 12 months.
Up to now, the Mayfair Witches crossover with Interview With The Vampire was slightly inconsequential to the general plot and felt extra like a manner to herald each reveals, however as Jen Richards spoke to, there’s numerous materials right here for the writers to work with.