[Movies] Mark Waters Set to Direct Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters Posted by Jeffrey Harris on 02.02.2013
Based on the book series...
Deadline reports that Mean Girls director Mark Waters has signed to direct the film planned in a franchise based on the Vampire Academy book series.
The cast now includes Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry and Danila Kozlovski. The title has been amended as well and the first film will now be known be called Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters.
Here is a synopsis of the story:
"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."
Deutch i set to play Rose. Fry is playing Lissa, and Kozlovski is Dmitri. Susan Montford, Don Murphy, Deepak Nayer and Michael Preger are producing the movie, and Stuart Ford is executive producing.
