A few years ago, the big-screen adaptation of Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy YA series landed in theaters. But it landed with a loud thud. But hey, 2014 might as well have been 1914 in pop culture terms. Time for a do-over! According to a report coming from Collider, the Vampire Academy series is now getting a straight-to-series order at the Peacock streaming service.
Someone who knows a thing or two about bloodsuckers is giving the series new life. Peacock is teaming up with executive producer Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries, The Originals) for the Vampire Academy‘s second time at bat. (See what we did there?) Also working on the series is Marguerite MacIntyre. She too is a veteran of the Vampire Diaries spin-off Legacies. Here’s the streamer’s official synopsis for the series:
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.
The Weinstein Company
Judging from the sound of that, it doesn’t sound like the series is straying too far from the source material. In the wake of Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games, Hollywood went in hard for movie adaptations of YA novels. But few found big box office returns—besides the ones we just mentioned of course. In recent years, studios have realized that those same YA novels have a much better shot at success by becoming streaming series. Certainly, that change in format helped the adaptation of His Dark Materials.
There is currently no casting information on the series, much less a confirmed release date. We’d be surprised if it didn’t premiere sometime in the next year or so though. Hopefully, with Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles series on AMC, a potential True Blood reboot, and now this, we are in for an undead revival on TV in the very near future.
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