Olga Kurylenko Enrolls in Vampire Academy

First announced for a big screen adaptation back in 2010, Richelle Mead’s hit book series Vampire Academy is headed to the big screen with Mean Girls director Mark Waters helming the first film, Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters. Today, Deadline reveals that Oblivion star Olga Kurylenko has joined the cast as Kirova, the Academy’s headmistress.

The Vampire Academy book series is a coming-of-age, action driven, “paranormal romance” fantasy. It is set in the present day against a hidden universe of vampires, half-humans, alchemy, and magic. The series centers on a strong, yet flawed, 17-year-old female who confronts her world with grit, determination, and lots of moxie. Rose Hathaway is a dhampir, half human/half vampire and guardian of the Moroi, a race of peaceful and magical mortal vampires who can walk in the daylight, survive by feeding off willing blood donors, grow old and die. Hidden deep in the forests of Montana is St. Vladimir’s Academy, where Moroi and dhampirs learn to take their place in Moroi society. Rose must master her inherited abilities as a dhampir and earn the approval of the Royal Council, as guardian to Princess Lissa, her best friend and sole heir of one of the twelve Royal families of Moroi. Rose and Lissa share a mysterious psychic bond and sense of destiny, but first they must survive an intense social scene, politics and the physical challenges of Moroi life at the Academy. Outside the sanctuary of St. Vladimir’s waits their greatest threat of all, the Strigoi, a race of bloodthirsty immortal vampires and predators of the Moroi.

Zoey Deutch, who recently starred in Beautiful Creatures, will play Rose with newcomers Lucy Fry as Lissa and Danila Kozlovski as Dmitri.

Susan Montford, Don Murphy, Deepak Nayer and Michael Preger will produce with Stuart Ford executive producing.

(Photo Credit: Apega / WENN.com)

Movie News

Marvel and DC

X