Beginning with the 1976 publication of Interview with the Vampire, author Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles franchise has been a favorite of bloodsucker devotees everywhere. Perhaps most well known for introducing the world to centuries-old vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, Rice’s Vampire Chronicles has so far consisted of 11 novels.

自1976年《夜訪吸血鬼》的問世,作者Anne Rice的小說《吸血鬼編年史》成為吸血鬼題材愛好者最喜歡的小說。其中最深入人心的可能就是讓世人知道吸血鬼萊斯特,Rice的《吸血鬼編年史》目前包含了11部小說。

In 2014, it was announced that Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment had acquired the rights to The Vampire Chronicles, with plans to re-adapt Interview for the screen. Those plans are now apparently null and void, as Anne Rice has announced on her Facebook page that she has reacquired the film rights to the universe she created, and is planning to take The Vampire Chronicles saga to TV. According to Rice, the Vampire Chronicles TV series will – unsurprisingly – center on Lestat, and begin by telling his origin story as written in Rice’s second Chronicles novel The Vampire Lestat.

早在2014年,Universal Pictures 還有Imagine Entertainment已經(jīng)獲得《吸血鬼編年史》的拍攝權,計劃將其搬上大熒幕。但是這項計劃失效了,因為Anne Rice已經(jīng)在FB上宣布取消將其拍成電影的決定,而是將《吸血鬼編年史》拍成電視劇。毫無疑問,《吸血鬼編年史》主角是Lestat,本劇將以Rice的第二部小說《吸血鬼萊斯特》為原型講述Lestat的故事作為開端。