has already spawned numerous vampire themed flicks and TV shows trying to scrape out their own little corner of the profits. Now it looks like one more vampire themed book series is making it's way to movie theaters. Don Murphy(Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
) will be producing a big screen adaptation of Vampire Academy, the popular six-novel vampire series targeted at teens. Sound familiar? Vampire Academy features a 17 year old half-human/half-vampire girl named Rose Hathaway, member of a peaceful race of bloodsuckers. She attends St. Vladimir's Academy in the Montana forests, and must navigate the difficult social order and the constant threat of the Moroi, a race of evil vamps looking to wipe her people out. Vampire Academy debuted on the New York Times Bestseller list in 2007. The final installment of the series is due out in December.
Supposedly this is a more action oriented story than Twilight is, but I have my doubts if that'll come across in the translation from novel to film. They'll want to target this at the PG-13 crowd, which means a lot of the violence will be jettisoned. I don't know squat about Vampire Academy, but I do know that I'm starting to hit vampire fatigue. Isn't anybody making a decent werewolf franchise out there? Something better than Blood and Chocolate
?
