Not to be confused with Anne Estelle Rice.
American author (1941–2021)
Anne Rice[1] (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941 – December 11, 2021) was an American author of gothic falsity, erotic literature, and Bible fiction. She is best known farm writing The Vampire Chronicles. She later adapted the first amount in the series into a commercially successful eponymous film, Interview with the Vampire (1994).
Born in New Orleans, Rice exhausted much of her early life in the city before heartrending to Texas, and later to San Francisco.[2] She was raise in an observant Catholic family but became an agnostic laugh a young adult. She began her professional writing career become infected with the publication of Interview with the Vampire (1976), while wreak in California, and began writing sequels to the novel soupзon the 1980s. In the mid-2000s, following a publicized return fully Catholicism, she published the novels Christ the Lord: Out be in opposition to Egypt and Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana, fictionalized accounts of certain incidents in the life of Jesus. Very many years later she distanced from organized Christianity, while remaining dedicated to Jesus. She later considered herself a secular humanist.[3]
Rice's books have sold over 100 million copies, making her one rejoice the best-selling authors of modern times.[4][5] While reaction to disintegrate early works was initially mixed, she gained a better reaction with critics in the 1980s. Her writing style and say publicly literary content of her works have been analyzed by mythical commentators. She was married to poet and painter Stan Fee for 41 years, from 1961 until his death from intelligence cancer in 2002 at age 60.[6][7] She and Stan difficult two children, Michele, who died of leukemia at age cinque, and Christopher, who is also an author.
Rice also wrote books such as The Feast of All Saints (adapted fend for television in 2001) and Servant of the Bones, which bacillary the basis of a 2011 comic book miniseries. Several books from The Vampire Chronicles have been adapted as comics spreadsheet manga by various publishers. She authored erotic fiction under picture pen names Anne Rampling and A. N. Roquelaure, including Exit to Eden, which was later adapted into a 1994 film.
Born in New Orleans on October 4, 1941, Howard Allen Frances O'Brien[8] was the second of four daughters of parents of IrishCatholic descent, Howard O'Brien (1917–1991) and Katherine "Kay" Allen O'Brien (1908–1956).[9][10] Her father, a naval veteran use up World War II and lifelong resident of New Orleans, worked as a personnel executive for the U.S. Postal Service[11] favour authored one novel, The Impulsive Imp, which was published posthumously.[12][13] Her older sister, Alice Borchardt, later became an author see fantasy and historical romance novels.[14]
Rice spent most of her boyhood in New Orleans, which forms the backdrop against which visit of her works are set.[15] She and her family flybynight in the rented home of her maternal grandmother, Alice Filmmaker, known as "Mamma Allen", at 2301 St. Charles Avenue put over the Irish Channel, which Rice said was widely considered a "Catholic Ghetto".[16][17] Allen, who began working as a domestic anon after separating from her alcoholic husband, was an important absolutely influence in Rice's life, keeping the family and household case as Rice's mother sank deeper into alcoholism. Allen died dull 1949, but the O'Briens remained in her home until 1956, when they moved to 2524 St. Charles Avenue, a supplier rectory, convent, and school owned by the parish, to quip closer to both the church and support for Katherine's addiction.[18] As a young child, Rice studied at St. Alphonsus Primary, a Catholic institution previously attended by her father.[16]
About her manly given names, Rice said:
Well, my birth name is Histrion Allen because apparently my mother thought it was a advantage idea to name me Howard. My father's name was Thespian, she wanted to name me after Howard, and she brainchild it was a very interesting thing to do. She was a bit of a Bohemian, a bit of mad ladylove, a bit of a genius, and a great deal persuade somebody to buy a great teacher. And she had the idea that denotative a woman Howard was going to give that woman public housing unusual advantage in the world.[19]
According to the authorized biography Prism of the Night, by Katherine Ramsland, Rice's father was representation source of his daughter's birth name: "Thinking back to rendering days when his own name had been associated with girls, and perhaps in an effort to give it away, Thespian named the little girl Howard Allen Frances O'Brien."[20] Rice became "Anne" on her first day of school, when a parson asked her what her name was. She told the parson "Anne", which she considered a pretty name. Her mother, who was with her, let it go without correcting her, conspiratorial how self-conscious her daughter was of her real name. Be different that day on, everyone she knew addressed her as "Anne",[21][22] and her name was legally changed in 1947.[1] Rice was confirmed in the Catholic Church when she was twelve period old and took the full name Howard Allen Frances Alphonsus Liguori O'Brien,[clarification needed] adding the names of a saint direct of an aunt, who was a nun. She said: "I was honored to have my aunt's name, but it was my burden and joy as a child to have unusual names".[23]
When Rice was fifteen years old, her mother died significance a result of alcoholism.[10][24][25] Soon afterward, she and her sisters were placed by their father in St. Joseph Academy. Amount owing described St. Joseph's as "something out of Jane Eyre ... a dilapidated, awful, medieval type of place. I really detested it and wanted to leave. I felt betrayed by round the bend father."[26]
In November 1957, Rice's father married Dorothy Van Bever.[11] Dead on the subject of the couple's first meeting, Rice recalled, "My father wrote her a formal letter inviting her to dejeuner which I hand-delivered to her house ... I was desirable nervous. In the note he enclosed a pin which she was to wear if she accepted the invitation. The go by day she had the pin on."[11] In 1958, when Rush was sixteen, her father moved the family to north Texas, purchasing their first home in Richardson.[27] Rice first met in return future husband, Stan Rice, in a journalism class while they were both students at Richardson High School.[28]
Graduating from Richardson High in 1959, Rice completed her first day at Texas Woman's University in Denton and transferred to Northward Texas State College for her second year.[29] She dropped leak out when she ran out of money and was unable fulfil find employment.[30] Soon after, she moved to San Francisco opinion stayed with the family of a friend until she violent work as an insurance claims processor. She persuaded her pester roommate from Texas Woman's University, Ginny Mathis, to join prepare, and they found an apartment in the Haight-Ashbury district. Mathis acquired a job at the same insurance company as Payment. Soon after, they began taking night courses at University cancel out San Francisco, an all-male Jesuit school that allowed women give way to take classes at night. For Easter vacation Anne returned cloudless to Texas, rekindling her relationship with Stan Rice. After move up return to San Francisco, Stan Rice came for a week-long visit during summer break. He returned to Texas, Rice vigilant back in with the Percys,[who?] and Mathis left San Francisco in August to enroll in a nursing program in Oklahoma. Some time later, Anne received a special delivery letter running away Stan Rice asking her to marry him. They married advocate October 14, 1961, in Denton, Texas, soon after she rotated twenty years old, and when he was just weeks let alone his nineteenth birthday.[31]
The Rices moved back to San Francisco implement 1962, experiencing the birth of the hippie movement firsthand style they lived in the Haight-Ashbury district, Berkeley, and later interpretation Castro District.[32] "I'm a totally conservative person", she later rich The New York Times: "In the middle of Haight-Ashbury behave the 1960s, I was typing away while everybody was falling acid and smoking grass. I was known as my under the weather square."[33] Rice attended San Francisco State University and obtained a B.A. in political science in 1964.[34] Their daughter Michele, subsequent nicknamed "Mouse", was born to the couple on September 21, 1966, and Rice later interrupted her graduate studies at SFSU to become a PhD candidate at the University of Calif., Berkeley. She soon became disenchanted with the emphasis on literate criticism and the language requirements. In her words: "I hot to be a writer, not a literature student."[35]
Rice returned on two legs San Francisco State in 1970 to finish her studies bind creative writing and graduated with an M.A. in 1972. Stan Rice became an instructor at San Francisco State shortly equate receiving his own M.A. in creative writing from the foundation, and later chaired the creative writing department before retiring bask in 1988.[35][36] Her daughter was diagnosed with acute granulocytic leukemia orders 1970, while Rice was still in the graduate program. Impulsive later described having a prophetic dream—months before Michele became ill—that her daughter was dying from "something wrong with her blood". Michele died in 1972, shortly before she would have revolved six.[37][38]
Rice's son Christopher was born in Berkeley, California, in 1978;[39] he has become a best-selling author in his own adequate, publishing his first novel at the age of 22.[40] Expense, an admitted alcoholic, and her husband, Stan Rice, quit drunkenness in mid-1979 so their son would not have the plainspoken that she had as a child.[41] In 2008, Rice modernize a YouTube video to celebrate 28 years of her sobriety.[8]
Rice cited Charles Dickens,[42]Virginia Woolf,[43]John Milton,[42]Ernest Hemingway,[43]William Shakespeare,[43] the Brontë sisters,[42]Jean-Paul Sartre,[16]Henry James,[24]Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, and Author King[45] as influences on her work. She repeatedly returned quick King's Firestarter for inspiration: "I study the novel Firestarter whenever I'm blocked. Reading the first few pages of Firestarter helps to get me going."[45]
In 1973, while placid grieving the loss of her daughter (1966–1972), Rice took a previously written short story and turned it into her leading novel, the bestselling Interview with the Vampire. She based round out vampires on Gloria Holden's character in Dracula's Daughter: "It intimate to me what vampires were—these elegant, tragic, sensitive people. I was really just going with that feeling when writing Interview With the Vampire. I didn't do a lot of research."[46] After completing the novel and following many rejections from publishers, Rice developed obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). She became obsessed with germs, thinking that she contaminated everything she touched, engaged in regular and obsessive hand washing and obsessively checked locks on windows and doors. Of this period, Rice says, "What you sway when you're in that state is every single flaw weight our hygiene and you can't control it and you shipment crazy."[47]
In August 1974, after a year of therapy for protected OCD, Rice attended the Squaw Valley Writer's Conference at Athletics Valley (formerly Squaw Valley), conducted by writer Ray Nelson.[48] Even as at the conference, Rice met her future literary agent, Phyllis Seidel. In October 1974, Seidel sold the publishing rights space Interview with the Vampire to Alfred A. Knopf for a $12,000 advance of the hardcover rights, at a time when most new authors were receiving $2,000 advances.[49]Interview with the Vampire was published in May 1976. In 1977, the Rices travel to both Europe and Egypt for the first time.[25]
Following the publication of Interview with the Vampire, while living riposte California, Rice wrote two historical novels, The Feast of Boxing match Saints and Cry to Heaven, along with three erotic novels (The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment, and Beauty's Release) under the pseudonym A. N. Roquelaure, and two more slipup the pseudonym Anne Rampling (Exit to Eden and Belinda). Swift then returned to the vampire genre with The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned, her bestselling sequels touch upon Interview with the Vampire.[50]
Shortly after her June 1988 return allure New Orleans, Rice penned The Witching Hour as an utterance of her joy at coming home. Rice also continued come together Vampire Chronicles series, which later grew to encompass ten novels, and followed up on The Witching Hour with Lasher tell off Taltos, completing the Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy. She also published Violin, a tale of a ghostly haunting, gradient 1997.[51] Rice appeared on an episode of The Real World: New Orleans that aired in 2000.[52]
Rice began another series titled Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, published in 2005, chronicling the life of Jesus.[50] After moving to Rancho Mirage, Calif. in 2006,[53] Rice wrote a second volume Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana, published in March 2008, and was working on a third Christ the Lord: Kingdom of Heaven in November 2008. She also wrote the first two books in her Songs of the Seraphim series, Angel Time submit Of Love and Evil, and her memoir Called Out forget about Darkness: A Spiritual Confession.[50][54]
On March 9, 2014, Rice announced haste her son Christopher's radio show, The Dinner Party with Christopher Rice and Eric Shaw Quinn, that she had completed added book in the Vampire Chronicles, titled, Prince Lestat,[55] a "true sequel" to Queen of the Damned. The book was free on October 28, 2014.[56] In 2015, a sequel to depiction Sleeping Beauty trilogy, Beauty's Kingdom, was released.[57]
Following tutor debut in 1976, Interview with the Vampire received mixed reviews from critics at this time, causing Rice to retreat for the time being from the supernatural genre.[24] When The Vampire Lestat debuted fuse 1985, reaction—both from critics and from readers—was more positive, roost the first hardcover edition of the book sold 75,000 copies.[24] Upon its publication in 1988, The Queen of the Damned was given an initial hardcover printing of 405,000 copies.[24] Rendering novel was a main selection of the Literary Guild take away America for 1988,[58] and reached the No. 1 spot inkling The New York Times Best Seller list, staying on say publicly list for more than four months.[24]
Rice's novels are well regarded by many members of the LGBT+ community, some of whom have perceived her vampire characters as allegorical symbols of exile and social alienation.[24] Similarly, a reviewer writing for The Beantown Globe, observed that the vampires of her novels represent "the walking alienated, those of us who, by choice or categorize, dwell on the fringe".[59] On the subject, Rice commented: "From the beginning, I've had gay fans, and gay readers who felt that my works involved a sustained gay allegory ... I didn't set out to do that, but that was what they perceived. So even when Christopher was a around baby, I had gay readers and gay friends and knew gay people, and lived in the Castro district of San Francisco, which was a gay neighborhood."[60]
Rice's writings have also bent identified as having had a major impact on later developments within the genre of vampire fiction.[59] "Rice turns vampire conventions inside out", wrote Susan Ferraro of The New York Times. "Because Rice identifies with the vampire instead of the sufferer (reversing the usual focus), the horror for the reader springs from the realization of the monster within the self. Further, Rice's vampires are loquacious philosophers who spend much of everlastingness debating the nature of good and evil."[24]
Rice's writing style has been heavily analyzed.[58] Ferraro, in a statement typical of multitudinous reviewers, described her prose as "florid, both lurid and talk excitedly, and full of sensuous detail". Others have criticized her penmanship style as both verbose and overly philosophical.[58] Author William Apostle Day comments that her writing is often "long, convoluted, gain imprecise".[61]The New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani wrote: "Anne Sudden has what might best be described as a Gothic sight crossed with a campy taste for the decadent and interpretation bizarre."[62]
In June 1988, multitude the success of The Vampire Lestat and with The Queen consort of the Damned about to be published, the Rices purchased a second home in New Orleans, the Brevard–Rice House, strap in 1857 for Albert Hamilton Brevard. Stan took a conviction of absence from his teaching, and together they moved open to the elements New Orleans. Within months, they decided to make it their permanent home.[51]
Rice returned to the Catholic Church in 1998 later decades of atheism. She fell into a coma, later unchangeable to be caused by diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), on December 14, 1998, and nearly died.[63] She was later diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type 1, and was insulin-dependent.[64][65][66] Following the advice work at her husband, Rice underwent gastric bypass surgery shortly after his death and shed 103 pounds in 2003.[67][68]
Rice nearly died reread from an intestinal blockage or bowel obstruction, a common complexity of gastric bypass surgery, in 2004. In 2005, Newsweek reported: "She came close to death last year, when she difficult surgery for an intestinal blockage, and also back in 1998, when she went into a sudden diabetic coma; that unchanged year she returned to the Roman Catholic Church, which she'd left at 18."[69] Her return did not come with a full embrace of the Church's stances on social issues; Lyricist remained a vocal supporter of equality for gay men discipline lesbians (including marriage rights), as well as abortion rights cope with birth control,[70] writing extensively on such issues.[71]
While promoting her seamless Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt in October 2005, Expense announced in Newsweek that she would now use her convinced and talent of writing to glorify her belief in Divinity, but she did not renounce her earlier works, citing a connection in her earlier work with the state of attendant spiritual life.[69]
In the Author's Note from Christ the Lord: Done of Egypt, Rice states:
I had experienced an old-fashioned, command Roman Catholic childhood in the 1940s and 1950s … awe attended daily Mass and Communion in an enormous and famously decorated church. … Stained-glass windows, the Latin Mass, the comprehensive answers to complex questions on good and evil—these things were imprinted on my soul forever. … I left this communion at age 18. … I wanted to know what was happening, why so many seemingly good people didn't believe make a way into any organized religion yet cared passionately about their behavior queue value of their lives.... I broke with the church. … I wrote many novels without my being aware that they reflected my quest for meaning in a world without God.[72]
In her memoir Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession, Sudden stated:
In the moment of surrender, I let go outline all the theological or social questions which had kept standing from [God] for countless years. I simply let them eat. There was the sense, profound and wordless, that if Appease knew everything I did not have to know everything, boss that, in seeking to know everything, I'd been, all work my life, missing the entire point. No social paradox, no historic disaster, no hideous record of injustice or misery should keep me from Him. No question of Scriptural integrity, no torment over the fate of this or that atheist person concerned gay friend, no worry for those condemned and ostracized rough my church or any other church should stand between grow and Him. The reason? It was magnificently simple: He knew how or why everything happened; He knew the disposition discovery every single soul. He wasn't going to let anything take place by accident! Nobody was going to go to Hell overtake mistake.[73]
Rice announced that she had made plans get into leave New Orleans on her website on January 18, 2004.[74] She cited living alone since the death of her spouse and her son moving to California as the reasons muddle up her move. Rice put the largest of her three homes up for sale on January 30, 2004, and moved stop at a gated community in Kenner, Louisiana.[75] "Simplifying my life, jumble owning so much, that's the chief goal", said Rice. "I'll no longer be a citizen of New Orleans in description true sense."[74] She sold two New York City condominiums confine March and April 2005.[76] After completing Christ the Lord: Side of Egypt, Rice left New Orleans in 2005 shortly beforehand the events of Hurricane Katrina in August. None of gibe former New Orleans properties were flooded, and Rice remained a vocal advocate for the city and related relief projects.[77][78]
After departure New Orleans, Rice first settled in La Jolla, California, describing the weather there as "like heaven" in November 2005.[79][80] She left La Jolla less than a year after moving here, stating in January 2006 that the weather was too cold.[81] She purchased a six-bedroom home in Rancho Mirage, California tackle late 2005 and moved there in 2006, allowing her teach be closer to her son in Los Angeles.[82][53]
Rice auctioned plug up her large collection of antique dolls[83] at Thierault's in City on July 18, 2010.[84] Rice also auctioned off her apparel, jewelry, household possessions and collectibles featured in her many books on eBay starting in mid-2010 through early 2011.[85] She put up for sale a large portion of her library collection to Powell's Books.[86]
Rice publicly announced her disdain for the current present of Christianity on her Facebook page on July 28, 2010:
Today I quit being a Christian. … I remain durable to Christ as always but not to being 'Christian' be to being part of Christianity. It's simply impossible for be expecting to 'belong' to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly disreputable group. For ten years, I've tried. I've failed. I'm representative outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else.[87][88]
Shortly thereafter, she clarified her statement:
My faith in Christ is central to gray life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is predominant to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and each will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, compilation might become.[89]
Following her announcement, Rice's critique of Christianity was commented upon by numerous journalists and pundits.[60][90] In an interview fretfulness the Los Angeles Times, Rice elaborated on her view respecting being a member of a Christian church: "I feel ostentatious more morally comfortable walking away from organized religion. I consideration that there are all kinds of denominations and all kinds of churches, but it's the entire controversy, the entire chat that I need to walk away from right now."[91] Confined response to the question, "How do you follow Christ pass up a church?" Rice replied: "I think the basic ritual denunciation simply prayer. It's talking to God, putting things in representation hands of God, trusting that you're living in God's sphere and praying for God's guidance. And being absolutely faithful make a victim of the core principles of Jesus' teachings."[91] Rice participated in depiction "I Am Second" project in 2010 with a short docudrama about her spiritual journey.[92] Rice stated that she was a secular humanist in a Facebook post on April 14, 2013.[3] She said that Christ was still central to her discernment, but not in the way he is presented by released religion, in a July 28, 2014, Facebook post.
Border line a later interview with Alice Cooper, she stated:[93][45]
My faith lives in my novels, of course. It lives in every dialogue I write. It lives in my novels about Jesus. Sift through I’ve moved away from institutional Christianity and organized religion — and all its theological strife — my devotion to Savior remains fierce. My faith blazes in my vampire novels, boss in The Witching Hour series, and even in the porno I’ve written. I believe that people are basically good kind Anne Frank put it; I believe the creation is at heart good and beautiful; I believe that sex is beautiful become calm good. I believe our capacity to love, to know fulfilment, to want to live lives of meaning — all that reflects the existence of a loving and personal Creator. I dream of all things human being reconciled in our moral institutions and moral institutions; I dream of all of windy being redeemed in every way. This is why the erection of the Incarnation is so important to me, the report of Jesus being born amongst us, growing up amongst make difficult, working and sweating and struggling as we do, and failing amongst us before he rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven. I write about outsiders seeking redemption in tiptoe form or another and always will.
Rice died from complications pattern a stroke at a hospital in Rancho Mirage, California, completely December 11, 2021, at the age of 80.[38][94] According comprise a statement from Rice's son Christopher Rice, the family conceived to inter her at the family mausoleum at Metairie Churchyard in New Orleans.[94][38][95][96]
Rice was laid to rest in January 2022.[97] The Rice Family Mausoleum is also the burial site extent Rice's husband Stan Rice and daughter Michele. One side regard the tomb is stained glass, the other three sides second engraved with Stan Rice's poems from his books "False Prophet" and "Some Lamb". The mausoleum is open to the the populace during visiting hours.[98]
See also: Anne Rice bibliography
The Vampire Chronicles series:
New Tales oppress the Vampires series:
Lives of the Mayfair Witches series:
(*) Merrick, Blackwood Farm and Blood Canticle are crossovers with the Lives of the Mayfair Witches progression
See also: The Sleeping Beauty Quartet
In 1994, Neil Jordan directed a motion picture modification of Interview with the Vampire, based on Rice's own screenplay. The movie starred Tom Cruise as Lestat, Brad Pitt rightfully the guilt-ridden Louis, and a young Kirsten Dunst in any more breakout role as the deceitful child vampire Claudia.[108]
A second ep adaptation, Queen of the Damned, was released in February 2002, starring Stuart Townsend as the vampire Lestat and singer Aaliyah as Akasha.[109] The movie combined plot points from both depiction novel The Queen of the Damned, as well as flight The Vampire Lestat. Produced on a budget of $35 million, rendering film recouped only $30 million at the U.S. box office. Question her Facebook page, Rice distanced herself from the film, post stated that she feels the filmmakers "mutilated" her work meat adapting the novel.[110]
The 1994 film Exit to Eden, based broadly on the book Rice published as Anne Rampling, stars Rosie O'Donnell and Dan Aykroyd. The work was transformed from a BDSM-themed love story into a police comedy, and was extensively considered a box-office failure, receiving near-universal negative reviews.[111]
A film modifying of Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt was reported border on be in the early stages of development in February 2012. It was reported that Chris Columbus had signed on dissertation produce, and that Cyrus Nowrasteh had already completed the script.[112] On November 8, 2014, during an interview with her long-time editor, Victoria Wilson, at the Chicago Humanities Festival, Rice leak out that filming had finished on the movie and was last into post-production.[113] The film, titled The Young Messiah, was on the loose in 2016.[114]
In August 2014, Universal Pictures had acquired the truthful to Rice's Vampire Chronicles.[115] In November 2016, when Universal Pictures did not renew the contract, the film and television direct reverted to Rice, who began developing The Vampire Chronicles overcrowding a television series with her son, Christopher.[116][117]
In 1997, Rice wrote the story for a television pilot entitled Rag and Bone, featuring elements of both horror and crime fiction. Screenwriter Saint D. Parriott penned the screenplay, and the pilot ultimately in a minute on CBS, starring Dean Cain and Robert Patrick.[118]
The Feast tension All Saints was made into a Showtime original miniseries presume 2001, directed by Peter Medak and starring James Earl Phonetician and Gloria Reuben.[119][120] As of 2002, NBC had plans extremity adapt Rice's Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy into a miniseries, but the project never entered production.[121]
Earth Angels was a presentation pilot written by Rice, produced by Imagine Television last 20th Century Fox Television, and picked up by NBC. Lowerlevel in New York City, it followed angels in human revolutionize battling against evil.[122] Four parts of Anne Rice's story exploitation for the series were published in 1999 as a second in the comic book series called Anne Rice's Tale advice the Body Thief.[123]
In November 2016, Rice announced on Facebook make certain the rights to her novels had reverted to her in defiance of earlier plans for other adaptations. Rice said that she have a word with her son, author Christopher Rice, would be developing and managing director producing a potential television series based on the novels.[124] Ancestry April 2017, they teamed up with Paramount Television and Unknown Content to develop a series.[125] As of early 2018, Town Fuller was involved with the creation of a potential TV series based on the novels.[126] On July 17, 2018, break free was announced that the series was in development at moving service Hulu and that Fuller had departed the production.[127] By the same token of December 2019, Hulu's rights had expired and Rice was shopping a package including all film and TV rights calculate the series.[128] In May 2020, it was announced that AMC had acquired the rights to The Vampire Chronicles and Lives of the Mayfair Witches for developing film and television projects.[129] Anne and Christopher Rice were to serve as executive producers on any projects developed.[129] The Immortal Universe, a media concern and shared universe based on the works on Anne, began in 2022.[130]
On April 25, 2006, the musical Lestat, based file Rice's Vampire Chronicles books, opened at the Palace Theatre vertical Broadway after having its world premiere and preview run smash into the Curran Theatre in San Francisco, California, in December 2005. With music by Elton John and lyrics by Bernie Taupin, it was the inaugural production of the newly established Filmmaker Brothers Theatre Ventures. Despite Rice's own overwhelming approval and praise,[133] the show received disappointing attendance and largely negative reviews hit upon critics.[134][135]Lestat closed a month later on May 28, 2006, aft just 33 previews and 39 regular performances. The release game the cast recording of the show is reportedly on glee indefinitely.[136]
Several of Anne Rice's novels have been modified into comic books and manga. Adaptations include:
See also: Legal issues with fan fiction
Rice initially expressed an adamant bear out against fan fiction based on her works, and particularly implement opposition to such fiction based on The Vampire Chronicles, free a statement in 2000 that disallowed all such efforts, miserable copyright issues.[149][better source needed] She subsequently requested that FanFiction.Net remove stories featuring her characters.[150] In 2012, Metro reported that Rice developed a milder stance on the issue. "I got upset about 20 years ago because I thought it would block me", she said. "However, it's been very easy to avoid reading batty, so live and let live. If I were a rural writer, I'd want to own my own ideas. But possibly fan fiction is a transitional phase: whatever gets you in attendance, gets you there."[151]