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meatball77 wrote:

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Joaqenix wrote:

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AmeliaBroadway wrote:

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McWolcott wrote:

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Joaqenix wrote:

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No, its based on the Vampire Diaries books. Never read them, but the Vampire Academy books are literally begging to be made into a CW show. Maybe Vampire Diaries was cheaper to get the rights to?

Never read the Vampire Diaries, but I really hope someday the Vampire Academy books find a place on tv or movies.

I read somewhere that there is interest in the books, either as a show or possibly a movie. Either way, I'd watch.
(I hated the Twilight series but loved the VA books. I can't wait for the next one this summer.)

Oh, and on Richelle Mead's blog is an offer to get her newest book signed by her.

http://blue-succubus.livejournal.com/

Yeah I liked the Vampire Academy books too. I don't think they're like masterpieces or anything, but I think they'd make for a great teen TV show, they're literally perfect for it. I don't really see a movie working quite as well, just cause I think they could really flesh out the characters with a TV setting in high school, blah blah. Lissa > Rosebitch though.

I'd worry that they'd kill it as a series. Turn it into somthing that it isn't. It would make a good mini-series on the family channel like they did with samari girl.

Blue Bloods would make a perfect WB show. It's Gossip Girl with fangs.

Vampire Diaries will be interesting. The books are good.

Oooh, this topic is apropos. I actually re-listened to Vampire Academy today because I wanted to map out it's mystery structure and when the clues were revealed (to study it, since I think it's a really tight mystery). Plus, I really like that scene with the necklace. ;) I LOVE this series. And now it's fresh in my mind.

I don't know, frankly I think Vampire Academy would make a killer movie series, a terrible TV series. The books have a really intriguing overall plot story. I don't think there's much they can do episodically. The storyline gets bigger with each book, expanding into bigger territories. Book 1 focuses a lot on the social politics. The later books start to get into the politics of Moroi/Dhampir society. Rose starts out as a reckless teen and later becomes a responsible warrior. I'm just not sure they can come up with satisfying episodes. What, we watch the hijinks of an expanded Guardian training mall scene? An episode centering around their first field duty, graded of course? The thing about the mall scene in the first book is it works so well with a lot of the plotlines. Rose and Dimitri. Why Rose made Lissa run away/What is wrong with Lissa. Rose's growth as a responsible guardian. It even feeds into the overall mystery and it hints at some of the bigger questions in the series (such as the promise R&D make in the car and the idea that the Moroi need a better leader, one who supports offensive magic). If that scene was turned into an episode about Rose's first outside guardian training or whatever, I think we would lose so much of the bigger picture. But really, that's what the episodes would end up being. Big guardian training stuff. More high school politics with battles using elemental magic. What I mean is, the books are written with bigger movie-esque plots where as books like Gossip Girl lend themselves really well to episodic dramas/hijinx. Hell, even the books read like TV episodes.

Vampire Academy rights have not been sold yet. I do think someone should snatch them up fast and make a movie out of them. The mini-series thing could work too.

I haven't read the Vampire Diaries. I probably will before the series starts.

As long as they don't try to turn the House of Night books into a series (i know it was optioned for movies), I'll be happy. I seriously despise those books. But they do lend themselves to episodes more easily, mostly because THEY DO NOT HAVE ANY PLOT!

I haven't read Blue Bloods either but HA! I love your "Gossip Girl with fangs" description. Reminds me of the pitch for the Luxe books (Gossip Girl in the Guilded Age).

I was thinking about Evernight Academy...I could see that more easily being a series. While the VA plots center around bigger issues, I think this one has more about social politics at a vampire boarding school. There's enough of an overarching plot that it could last an entire season, and I think there could be individual episodes that focus on social stuff at school as well as the whole Black Cross thing.

Even though this is being made into a movie, you know what would make an interesting show? The Hunger Games. Which is rather ironic, considering the premise of the book. But there were 22 players. One death a week. So super easy! Or well, the first few episodes would center around the reaping, the opening games, the trials, etc.

I also think the Luxe series could make a good TV show. And for that matter, Libba Bray's series might work as well.