Elizabeth McGovern has joined Nicholas Denton and William Fichtner in the Anne Rice-inspired TV collection The Talamasca

When I hear the identify Elizabeth McGovern, I instantly consider ’80s tasks she labored on like Ordinary People, Racing with the Moon, Once Upon a Time in America, The Bedroom Window, and, most of all, She’s Having a Baby. Which in all probability provides away the incontrovertible fact that I’ve by no means watched Downton Abbey. McGovern has continued working steadily over the a long time since the ’80s motion pictures I discussed, and today is probably going finest identified for enjoying the function of Cora Crawley on Downton Abbey after which reprising that function in two characteristic movies. Next up: Variety experiences that McGovern has signed on to be a part of the cast of Anne Rice’s The Talamasca.

About a 12 months and a half in the past, we heard that AMC was creating a 3rd TV collection primarily based on the works of Anne Rice, including to the franchise they’ve been constructing out of the Vampire Chronicles novels and the Mayfair Witch books written by Rice. A number of months in the past, the present – which goes by the working title of The Talamasca – was formally ordered to collection, with the plan being for episodes to begin airing someday in 2025. This entry in the franchise that AMC is asking the Anne Rice Immortal Universe will comply with a secretive society known as the Talamasca that’s accountable for monitoring and containing witches, vampires, werewolves and different creatures. Members of the Talamasca have already been launched in the AMC exhibits Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire and Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches.

McGovern’s co-stars on the present will embody Nicholas Denton of Glitch and Dangerous Liasions, who has been cast as a personality named Guy Anatole, and William Fichtner of Heat and The Dark Knight.

Denton’s character Guy Anatole is “brilliant, handsome and sharp on the surface, but he’s always known his mind works a little differently. On the cusp of graduating law school, he is approached by a representative of the Talamasca, a secretive agency that monitors and protects us from the supernatural world. When Guy learns that the Talamasca has been tracking him since his childhood, he falls headlong into a world of secret agents and immortal beings who, up to now, have maintained a fragile balance with the mortal world. But for that balance to hold, and for Guy to survive, he will have to learn to embrace the dark, treacherous depths of his true and singular self.”

Fichtner is enjoying Jasper, “a mysterious American who has quietly assumed control and influence over the Talamasca’s London Motherhouse. Though his motives and methods are cloaked in shadow, his charm and righteous sense of purpose are as dangerous as the power he’s pursuing.” McGovern’s character is Helen, “a seasoned veteran of the Talamasca, and the chief of its New York Motherhouse. She has lengthy suspected that London’s Motherhouse has fallen underneath the affect of traitorous parts, and a mysterious loss of life prompts her to recruit Guy Anatole (Denton), who will turn out to be her protégé.“

John Lee Hancock, whose credit embody The Blind Side and the Stephen King adaptation Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, is writing the Talamasca collection and shall be serving as showrunner alongside Mark Lafferty of The Right Stuff and Halt and Catch Fire. Hancock may even be directing the first episode. All of AMC’s Anne Rice tasks are produced by AMC Studios and govt produced by Mark Johnson.

Talamasca is scheduled to begin filming in Manchester, England subsequent month. Dan McDermott, president of leisure and AMC Studios for AMC Networks, supplied the following assertion when the collection was introduced: “This is a narrative we’ve been creating and wanting to inform from the earliest moments of this franchise, centered on an enchanting and compelling secret society that has already appeared in each of our present Anne Rice collection, the Talamasca. As with all of those exhibits, we’re thrilled to have such a excessive degree of expertise concerned, represented right here by John Lee Hancock and Mark Lafferty, and naturally working intently with producer Mark Johnson as the inventive head of our Anne Rice Immortal Universe.“

Hancock added: “This all began for me with a name from Mark Johnson, who requested if I’d ever heard of the Talamasca. I used to be intrigued by the thought of a company that, to me, had greater than a passing resemblance to the CIA or MI6, that are obligatory however not at all times essentially clear. An group with its personal secrets and techniques. Thankfully, Dan McDermott preferred the take and so did Mark Lafferty, who’s so proficient and completed in the world of tv. Many thanks to everybody from Gran Via to Mark Lafferty, to our proficient writers and everybody at AMC, who’ve been supporters, advocates and cheerleaders from day one. I couldn’t be extra thrilled to be concerned and look ahead to presenting a 3rd collection in the Anne Rice Immortal Universe.“

Are you a fan of Interview with the Vampire (you’ll be able to learn our overview of the first season HERE and the second HERE) and/or Mayfair Witches (our overview of that present’s first season is HERE), and are you curious about seeing what John Lee Hancock and AMC do with Anne Rice’s The Talamasca? What do you consider Elizabeth McGovern becoming a member of the cast? Let us know by leaving a remark under.