Before “Buffy,” “Twilight,” and “The Vampire Diaries,” there was “The Vampire Chronicles,” Anne Rice’s book series that included “Interview with the Vampire,” the source material for the hit 1994 film starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and a young Kirsten Dunst. Now Rice and her son, Christopher Rice, are prepping to bring Lestat and Co. to the small screen, Vanity Fair reports.

The author sold the theatrical rights to the bestselling series to Universal Studios in 2014, but has since gotten them back, and said that “television is where the vampires belong.”

Rice wrote an informative, lengthy Facebook post about the situation. “Universal Studios and Imagine Entertainment had optioned the series to develop motion pictures from it, and though we had the pleasure of working with many fine people in connection with this plan, it did not work out,” she explained. She and her son are collaborating on a pilot script and an outline for an “open-ended series” that will kick off with the events of “The Vampire Lestat,” the second book in the series, which is actually a prequel to the first book, “Interview with the Vampire.”

“Over the years you all have told me how much you want to see a ‘Game of Thrones‘ style faithful rendering of this material, and how much you want for the series to remain in my control,” Rice shared. “Well, I have heard you. I have always heard you. What you want is what I want.”

She continued, “A television series of the highest quality is now my dream for Lestat, Louis, Armand, Marius, and the entire tribe. In this the new Golden Age of television, such a series is THE way to let the entire story of the vampires unfold.”

Released in 1976, “Interview with the Vampire” marked Rice’s first book publication. The author, who counts the Bronte sisters and Virginia Woolf among her influences, has since sold about 100 million copies of her books.