With the end of Twilight, are young adults still interested in bloodsuckers? Vampire Academy is hoping so. Now a new trailer has arrived, which suggests that despite the dreadful name it might not be too bad – although it appears fans of the books are in two minds about whether it looks like it’ll be able to capture the novels.
You’d have hope we’d get something decent from Mean Girls helmer Mark Waters and Heathers writer Daniel Waters, who’ve adapted Richelle Mead‘s popular series of books for the big screen.
The film tells the tale of Rose Hathaway, a 17-year-old girl who has a mental and spiritual bond with her vampire best friend Lissa. The two girls attend a special school for Vampires who struggle to retain some humanity while other Vampires become more feral. Zoey Deutch (Beautiful Creatures) and the Australian Lucy Fry playing Rose and Lissa, with Russian star Danila Kozlovski as Dimitri.
The film’s due out early next year. [Read more…]
Mark Waters has had a fair amount of success in the family/teen film arena, with movies such as Freaky Friday, Mean Girls, The Spiderwick Chronicles and Mr. Popper’s Penguins, and he’s sticking to that area for Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters, according to