Do you remember Mark Water’s disastrous 2014 directorial adaptation of Richelle Mead’s book Vampire Academy? The film currently sits at 16 percent on rotten tomatoes and an equally lousy audience score, labeling it a box office dud. However, Peacock TV, and executive producer Julie Plec intends to the right that wrong with a Vampire Academy television show that’s going straight to series order.
Plec knows her way around the Vampire realm as executive producer on The Vampire Diaries and The Originals. Another Vampire universe veteran, Marguerite MacIntrye, is also on board. She wrote on another Vampire Diaries spin-off, Legacies.
The only information available so far is a synopsis as there is no casing or projected release date. Collider reports the official synopsis for the as follows:
“In a world of privilege and glamour, two young women’s friendship transcends their strikingly different classes. Together they prepare to complete their education and enter royal vampire society.”
I haven’t read the books, so I’m unsure if the synopsis is close to the original story, but I expect a mix of book material mixed in and Plec’s artistic vision.
It’s clear that Vampire madness is coming to television sooner than later. Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles is headed to AMC, there’s been talk of a True Blood reboot, and Legacies is still going strong on Netflix.
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DISCUSSION
Love Vampire academy. It’s a really interesting take on vampires and the worldbuilding in both the original series and the spinoff series (the spin off is better). Lots of interesting class based elements. The movie was terrible, they used the plot but turned all the interesting and thought provoking elements into a joke.
There are the Morori - The good vampires, they have magic abilities. They drink blood and there are human feeders who love getting fed off of it’s like a drug. They have to reproduce with each other in order to create more Morori.
The Stragoi - Evil vampires, they are formed when they are either turned by another Stragoi or if a Morori kills someone when feeding.
Dhampirs - They are a super strong warrior race and dedicate their lives to protecting the Morori. They can’t reproduce except with a Morori. Some of them are referred to as blood whores because they have sex with Morori and let them drink during sex. The two races need eachother.
The series starts out at the academy which exists to train the Morori in Magic and the Dhampirs as bodyguards.
It’s a very different type of vampire from those we typically have seen in media. Based off of Romanian legend I think. The author has a degree in comparative religions (I guess if you get a degree in comparative religion you write supernatural books).