Book News: "Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters" Film Accounced

Back in 2010, Preger Entertainment acquired the film rights for Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead.  Earlier this month, Reliance Entertainment and IM Global announced that they are helping to finance the first installment of this new film franchise.  It film will be debuted as Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters.  In addition, brothers Daniel Waters and Mark Waters are partnering up to work on this film.  Daniel Waters wrote the script for Heathers (1999).  His brother Mark Waters directed both Freaky Friday (2003) and Mean Girls (2004).

Work on Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters is in full effect.  Filming will begin summer of 2013.  And, the three lead characters have been cast!

Drumroll please....

Photo:  Roger Kisby

CW and Disney actress Zoey Deutch as Rosemarie "Rose" Hathaway

Australian surfer/actress Lucy Fry as Vasilisa "Lissa" Dragomir

Photo:  FotoImedia; ITAR-TASS; PhotoXPress

Russian heartthrob Danila Kozlovski as Dimitri Belikov

If you haven't read Vampire Academy, here's the synopsis from Goodreads:
St. Vladimir's Academy isn't just any boarding school–it's a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They've been on the run, but now they're being dragged back to St. Vladimir's–the very place where they're most in danger. Rose and Lissa become enmeshed in forbidden romance, the Academy's ruthless social scene, and unspeakable nighttime rituals. But they must be careful lest the Strigoi–the world's fiercest and most dangerous vampires–make Lissa one of them forever.

I read this book back in 2008 so I am more than ready.  Are you as excited as I am?

-Mariela

Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy #1) by Richelle Mead
ISBN 1595143580 (ISBN13: 9781595143587)
Edition language:  English
Original title:  Vampire Academy
Series:  Vampire Academy #1