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The premiere crippled twist of Peacock's Vampire Academy came arsenic a astonishment to longtime fans of the books. Hear co-creators Julie Plec and Marguerite MacIntyre interruption down wherefore they made the change.
Vampire Academy Producers connected Potential Vampire Diaries Crossover
(Spoilers up for the bid premiere of Vampire Academy connected Peacock.)
The bid premiere of Peacock's Vampire Academy threw publication fans for a loop, and that's precisely what co-creators Julie Plec and Marguerite MacIntyre intended.
As revealed successful the episode's melodramatic opening sequence—which showed the deaths of respective of the Dragomir household successful a car crash—the amusement is acceptable earlier the events of writer Richelle Mead's publication bid of the aforesaid name. And arsenic a instrumentality of the books herself, Plec was excited to soma retired much of the Vampire Academy universe.
"We realized there's a full play worthy of large accidental close present conscionable successful the past," she said successful an exclusive interrogation with E! News. "And so, wherefore not usage that arsenic substance alternatively of arsenic memory? Why not statesman our communicative wherever we tin instrumentality vantage of immoderate of these large twists and turns?"
For caller Vampire Academy fans, the archetypal publication (and 2014 film) picks up with champion friends Rose Hathaway and Lissa Dragomir—played by Sister Stringer and Daniela Nieves connected the Peacock series, respectively—returning to St. Vladimir's Academy aft being connected the tally from vampire society.
While viewers volition person to tune successful to spot what "twists and turns" are successful store, MacIntyre assured longtime fans that they volition "see everything that you emotion eventually."
"What we've done is played with time," the erstwhile Vampire Diaries star teased. "If you loved thing successful publication six, you mightiness spot it successful the archetypal season. If you emotion thing successful publication two, it mightiness beryllium successful play five."
Vampire Academy marks the creators' determination to streaming aft moving connected The Vampire Diaries—and its spin-offs The Originals and Legacies—for years connected the CW, a determination Plec called "an bonzer gift" for this reason.
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"For me, the biggest quality is the state to support what you privation to support successful the episode," Plec said, "whether it beryllium a beauteous shot, thing aesthetic, thing tonal, a performance, a tiny storyline, your favourite enactment of dialog successful a scene, due to the fact that you person a flexible moving clip that successful web TV is finite."
She continued, "I person chopped truthful galore beauteous things implicit the past 15 years of my beingness that made maine truthful bittersweet to lose. Not having to bash that present has been the top blessing."
Hear Plec and MacIntyre chat much astir bringing the books to beingness successful the interrogation above.
The archetypal 4 episodes of Vampire Academy are streaming present connected Peacock. New episodes premiere play connected Thursdays.
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