Oscar-nominated John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) and Mark Lafferty (The Right Stuff, Halt and Catch Fire) Serve as Co-Showrunners and Executive Producers along with Executive Producer Mark Johnson; Hancock will also Direct
NEW YORK – September 4, 2024 – AMC Networks today announced that Nicholas Denton (Dangerous Liaisons, Glitch) has been cast as the lead of the third series in its expanding Anne Rice Immortal Universe, a drama focused on a secretive society called The Talamasca. Anne Rice’s The Talamasca (wt) is slated for a 2025 premiere on AMC and AMC+ with production beginning next month in Manchester, England. The six-episode season will focus on the men and women responsible for tracking and containing the witches, vampires, and other creatures scattered around the globe.
Denton will star as Guy Anatole. He 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.
Anne Rice’s The Talamasca is executive produced by Oscar-nominated John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) and Mark Lafferty (The Right Stuff, Halt and Catch Fire), who also serve co-showrunners, and award-winning producer Mark Johnson, who oversees the Anne Rice Immortal Universe. Hancock will also direct.
The series joins Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, which concluded its critically acclaimed second season earlier this year, and Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, returning for a second season in early 2025, in the expanding Anne Rice Immortal Universe on AMC and AMC+.
Denton is repped by UTA, United Management in Australia and Conway Van Gelder Grant, and he previously starred as “Valmont” in the Starz/Lionsgate prequel to Dangerous Liaisons and was a recipient of a coveted spot among the 2018 Heath Ledger Scholarships Finalists. He trained in the theatre while appearing in numerous television and film projects, including Ron Howard’s Eden, the critically acclaimed indie Holding the Man, series Glitch, Utopia and Acorn TV’s My Life Is Murder.
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