The VAMPIRE ACADEMY Cast Shares Their Familiarity with the Franchise Before Booking the Peacock Series
September 17, 2022 by Marisa Roffman
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VAMPIRE ACADEMY — “NBCU Corner @ SDCC” — Pictured: (l-r) Kieron Moore, Sisi Stringer, Daniela Nieves, André Dae Kim at the Quantum Leap photo display — (Photo by: Todd Williamson/Peacock)
In 2007, the first Richelle Mead book from the VAMPIRE ACADEMY series was released. Five more books followed, as did a 2014 film adaptation. And now Julie Plec and Marguerite MacIntyre teamed up to bring the world to life via the new Peacock show.
“We were fans [of the] the books first, many, many years ago, before we even dreamt of making it a TV show,” Plec previously shared. “And we wanted to treat the source material with that respect, and we wanted to tell the stories very much like how Richelle Mead told the stories.”
But how familiar was the cast with the franchise before they joined the new streaming series? Well, it varied… Read more
VAMPIRE ACADEMY: Julie Plec and Marguerite MacIntyre on Diving into a New Vampire Franchise
September 12, 2022 by Marisa Roffman
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VAMPIRE ACADEMY — “NBCU Corner @ SDCC” — Pictured: (l-r) Sisi Stringer, André Dae Kim, Julie Plec, Showrunner; Daniela Nieves, Marguerite MacIntyre, Showrunner; Kieron Moore — (Photo by: Todd Williamson/Peacock)
For more than a dozen years, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES and its spinoff series THE ORIGINALS and LEGACIES was one of the most successful vampire (and supernatural-centric) franchises in modern television.
Now, Julie Plec—who co-developed TVD, and executive produced all three TVD-universe shows—is looking to bring another beloved vampire book series to life: Peacock’s VAMPIRE ACADEMY, which is inspired by the Richelle Mead book series. (It previously was adapted as a film.)
