NEW YORK, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Glitch and Dangerous Liaisons alum Nicholas Denton says his new show Talamasca: The Secret Order grounds in reality the supernatural world that horror icon Anne Rice created.
Premiering Sunday on AMC and AMC+, the contemporary drama follows the shadowy organization that monitors the actions of immortal creatures such as those found in Rice's Vampire Chronicles and Mayfair Witches novels, which have inspired TV series of their own.
Denton plays Talamasca investigator Guy, Elizabeth McGovern plays his supervisor Helen and William Fichtner plays the vampire Jasper. John Lee Hancock and Mark Lafferty are co-showrunners, while Mark Johnson serves as executive producer.
"I did want to come at it from a kind of a newer place, a different place. And I think that because Guy's an original character, I wanted him to have his own kind of voice," Denton said at a recent New York Comic Con press conference.
"I'd seen the series, I've seen the films, I hadn't necessarily read all of it, but I did realize that I was kind of barking up the wrong tree, if I was going to take THAT perspective. I wanted to go the spy route with Guy," Denton said. "We are grounding this in a reality that is spy with vampiric and immortal qualities to it."
