With the success of vampire books to movie/TV projects such as Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, and True Blood, it was only a matter of time before the powers-that-be of the industry would invade whatever young adult vampire novel they could get their hands on and bring it to the big screen.
Comingsoon is reporting that Preger Entertainment has acquired the film rights to Richelle Mead's New York Times best-selling book series "Vampire Academy" (Penguin/Razorbill Books). There are seven books in the series with the last was released back in December. The series has sold well over 3.5 million copies domestically and 1 million copies internationally. I hear that Michael Preger is teaming up with producer Don Murphy (Transformers, Natural Born Killers, Apt Pupil) to bring it to life, hoping they can bring some butts in the theater seats, promising some action intertwined with the romance.
The "Vampire Academy" book series is a coming-of-age, action driven, "paranormal romance" fantasy. It is set in the present day against a hidden universe of vampires, half-humans, alchemy, and magic. The series centers on a strong, yet flawed, 17-year-old female who confronts her world with grit, determination, and lots of moxie. Rose Hathaway is a dhampir, half human/half vampire and guardian of the Moroi, a race of peaceful and magical mortal vampires who can walk in the daylight, survive by feeding off willing blood donors, grow old and die. Hidden deep in the forests of Montana is St. Vladimir's Academy, where Moroi and dhampirs learn to take their place in Moroi society. Rose must master her inherited abilities as a dhampir and earn the approval of the Royal Council, as guardian to Princess Lissa, her best friend and sole heir of one of the twelve Royal families of Moroi. Rose and Lissa share a mysterious psychic bond and sense of destiny, but first they must survive an intense social scene, politics and the physical challenges of Moroi life at the Academy. Outside the sanctuary of St. Vladimir's waits their greatest threat of all, the Strigoi, a race of bloodthirsty immortal vampires and predators of the Moroi.
If done right this could totally knock boring sex-shy kids of Twilight out of the water. Vampire Academy has a pretty good story going for it, although for some reason I see it working better as a TV series on the CW than an epic movie where the story has to be cut down to two hours.
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