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Get acceptable to descend your teeth into your latest TV obsession.
Peacock is kicking off spooky play a small early with the premiere of the brand-new bid Vampire Academy, which premieres Sept. 15.
Based connected the publication bid of the aforesaid sanction by Richelle Mead, the bid follows 2 girls—one a Royal vampire and the different her half-vamp protector—as they navigate friendships, romances and emblematic teen problems, each portion dealing with a larger menace to vampire society.
On the surface, the amusement whitethorn look similar different vampire teen amusement (à la The Vampire Diaries oregon First Kill), but formed subordinate André Dae Kim teased that fans should expect the unexpected. He exclusively told E! News astatine 2022 San Diego Comic-Con, "If you're coming into this reasoning it's gonna beryllium 1 benignant of genre, you mightiness beryllium a small surprised, I deliberation pleasantly surprised."
Ahead of the show's upcoming premiere, we're breaking down everything you request to cognize astir Vampire Academy, from which TVD creators are astatine the helm to the show's antithetic kinds of vampires to however it differs from the books.
Vampire Academy premieres Sept. 15 connected Peacock.
(E! and Peacock are some portion of the NBCUniversal family.)
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When Does It Premiere?
The archetypal 4 episodes of Vampire Academy premiere September 15 connected Peacock, with the remaining six premiering play connected Thursdays.
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What’s the Premise?
According to the streamer, the bid follows the relationship of 2 young women "as they hole to implicit their acquisition and participate vampire society. One arsenic a almighty Royal, the different a half-vampire Guardian trained to support against the savage 'Strigoi' who endanger to teardrop their nine apart. That is, if Royal infighting doesn't bash the occupation first."
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What’s It Based Off?
The amusement is based connected the bestselling publication bid of the aforesaid sanction by writer Richelle Mead. The first, titled Vampire Academy, was published successful 2007, with the sixth and last installment, Last Sacrifice, published successful 2010.
The Peacock bid marks the 2nd live-action adaptation of the publication series, arsenic the communicative received the movie attraction in 2014 and starred Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry and Dominic Sherwood.
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Who's successful The Cast?
Sisi Stringer and Daniela Nieves prima arsenic the champion friends astatine the halfway of the story, half-vamp Guardian Rose Hathaway and Royal vampire Lissa Dragomir, respectively. The main formed besides includes Kieron Moore arsenic Guardian trainer Dimitri Belikov and André Dae Kim arsenic vampire Christian Ozera.
Additional formed includes J. August Richards arsenic Victor Dashkov, Anita-Joy Uwajeh arsenic Tatiana Vogel, Mia Mckenna-Bruce arsenic Mia Karp, Rhian Blundell arsenic Meredith, Jonetta Kaiser arsenic Sonya Karp and Andrew Liner arsenic Mason Ashford.
The formed besides includes a star-studded lineup of impermanent stars (check retired the afloat database here), including The White Lotus' Leo Woodall arsenic fan-favorite quality Adrian Ivashkov.
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Who Created the Series?
Julie Plec—aka the pistillate down The Vampire Diaries—serves arsenic a co-creator, showrunner, writer and enforcement shaper connected the bid with erstwhile TVD prima Marguerite MacIntyre (aka Sheriff Forbes). MacIntyre besides worked with Plec connected The CW show's 2 spin-offs, The Originals and Legacies.
Additional enforcement producers see Emily Cummins, Don Murphy, Susan Montford, Deepak Nayar and Jillian DeFrehn. The archetypal occurrence is directed by Bille Woodruff, with Luis Prieto, Jesse Warn, Erica Dunton, Geoff Shotz and Plec besides serving arsenic directors.
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How Is It Different to Previous Versions?
During an interview with E! News astatine 2022 Comic-Con, Stringer teased that the amusement is simply a "modern adaptation" of the books, saying, "We've changed a fewer things, and it's not gonna beryllium precisely the same, but I deliberation we've stayed existent to the characters and the relationships, which is wherever the communicative is."
But the prima knows that fans of the books "are going to beryllium satisfied" with the series. She told E! News, "I cognize it's important to each of america to marque definite that the fans are happy, and similar I said, I truly deliberation they volition be."
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Are There Different Kinds of Vampires?
While astir radical are acquainted with what a emblematic vampire is (hates ail and sunlight, etc.), aggregate different kinds of the blood-sucking creatures beryllium successful the Vampire Academy universe.
For starters, there's the Morai: pureblooded vampires (like Lissa) who are not lone mortal but tin besides wield magic. Then determination are Dhampirs (like Rose) who are the half-Morai, half-human protectors of the Morai.
Last but not least, we person the villainous and immortal vampires called the Strigoi. The champion mode to decision them? Expose them to sunlight.
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