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 Deadline.
The movie is based on the first volume in Richelle Mead’s bestselling young adult series of Vampire Academy books. The books ‘tell 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’.
The two main roles have already been cast, with relative newcomers Zoey Deutch (Beautiful Creatures) and the Australian Lucy Fry playing Rose and Lissa, as well as Russian star Danila Kozlovski as Dimitri.
Twilight backers Summit are behind the movie and will he hoping this can match the success of their most popular franchise. Mark Waters’ brother Daniel is writing the script – and he’s a good choice as his most famous screenplay is the excellent teen flick Heathers.