VAMPIRE ACADEMY Moves To A February 7 Release Date

The Weinstein Company will release the upcoming VAMPIRE ACADEMY on February 7.  Based on author Richelle Mead’s worldwide bestselling series, VAMPIRE ACADEMY tells the legend of Rose Hathaway (Zoey Deutch) and Lissa Dragomir (Lucy Fry), two 17-year-old girls who attend a hidden boarding school for Moroi (mortal, peaceful Vampires) and Dhampirs (half-vampire/half-human guardians).

Rose, a rebellious Guardian-in-training and her best friend, Lissa – a royal vampire Princess – have been on the run when they are captured and returned to St. Vladamir’s Academy, the very place where they believe their lives may be in most jeopardy.

Thrust back into the perils of Moroi Society and high school, Lissa struggles to reclaim her status while Rose trains with her mentor and love-interest, Dimitri (Danila Kozlovsky), to guarantee her place as Lissa’s guardian. Rose will sacrifice everything to protect Lissa from those who intend to exploit her from within the Academy walls and the Strigoi (immortal, evil vampires) who hunt her kind from outside its sanctuary.

Fantasy author Richelle Mead was first inspired to write about vampires while flipping through books of old Romanian stories about different races of vampires roaming the world: the Moroi, who were described as living and good, the Strigoi, who were portrayed as the stereotypical bloodsucking vampires of nightmares, and the Dhampirs, half-human, half-vampire warriors. After studying these at length, Meade took the idea of these different sub-sets and decided to build a society out of them. “What would it look like in the modern world if you had these races at war?” she asked herself.

Eventually she decided that placing them in the context of high school seemed the perfect present-day battleground. Vampire Academy, the first installment in what would become Mead’s six-part bestselling series, was published in 2007 and became an instant fan sensation. Together, the books have gone on to sell over 8 million copies in 34 countries and secured an avid young adult audience.”

VAMPIRE ACADEMY will hit theaters on February 7, 2014.  Before audiences have a chance to check the film out, Mead has given her seal of approval. “Seeing the book come to life in a movie is like taking what I visualized in my head and making it even bigger and better,” she says. “Book writing and filmmaking are two different mediums. I specialize in book writing, and I feel pretty good about doing that. But to put something on a big screen and make it larger than life is a whole different art form. It blows me away to see what Mark and Dan Waters and the rest of the team working on the movie can do. It’s just incredible to have people who specialize in this kind of art form, with those visual talents, bringing this to life.”

The film is rated PG-13

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