Perkinsun Dzees

Nice to see the Waters brothers collaborating on a film.

Directed by Mean Girls helmer Mark Waters with a script by Daniel Waters (Heathers) based on a bestselling book, Vampire Academy follows Rose (Zoey Deutch, Beautiful Creatures) a half-human, half-vampire who must protect a Moroi vampire, which are basically like vampire royalty. She and the peaceful bloodsucker she's sworn to protect, her BFF Lissa Dragomir (Lucy Fry), have been caught and forced to return to the school they once fled, where they face demons both literal and figurative – think Mean Girls for vampires – as well as a hot mentor Dimitri (Russian actor Danila Kozlovsky).

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EddieMoney

My sister's best friend growing up was the author of the series. Therefore, I am bumping.

RocShemp

Never heard of this. But I like the talent behind it.

EddieMoney

Thanks for the bump!

Why So Blu?

Hot chicks in this but looks atrocious. Hollywood is going to get bit in the ass for buying out YA properties to make into films.

EddieMoney

Yeah, I was just pimping it for the family friend.

DaveyJoe

Pic of EddieMoney's family friend:



Would bang.

Why So Blu?

Would give her a cream pie.

EddieMoney

Yeah, that's her.

VHS?

How many times did your Sister yell at you for trying to play stink finger with her besty ?

EddieMoney

More than a few.

RichC2

I thought John Waters was making a vampire pic for a minute there, with hot chicks.

I am now disappointed.

Groucho

Finally, somebody taps in on the underused Vampire genre!

bunkaroo

With no offense meant to Eddie's father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate who wrote it, this sounds more than a day late and a dollar short. About a week late and $10 short I think. Any genre movie that has its first release be Title : Subtitle is asking for trouble.

EddieMoney

Jesus. Get your facts straight at least.

Why So Blu?

And she's a natural red head, so I bet she has a fire crotch. Love that shit.

RocShemp

First, she's gorgeous and I'd love to drive my flesh stake into her. But, yeah, the trailer looks generic as hell. I was hoping for a Heathers-esque comedy.

Solid Snake

Dude.... Me too.

RocShemp

It would be cool if someone were to adapt Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter, Dream-Hunter, Were-Hunter, Hellchaser, and and The Chronicles Of Nick series. Of course, if true to the books, most of the movies would be NC-17.

RocShemp

Much better trailer:

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Still think it's a rental at best, however.

bunkaroo

I saw a trailer for this in front of Catching Fire last night. Just laughably bad. I mean I'm sure it will play well in the pre-teen demo but it just looks awful. Maybe if the movie was a satire it would work.

RocShemp

That's what I was hoping for given the writer and the director. The second trailer seems to suggest it is indeed a satire but it doesn't look like it's firing on all cylinders. Apparently the source material takes itself seriously they unwisely chose to do it half satire and play the other half straight.

DRG

Yeah, after Beautiful Creatures, The Host, and Mortal Instruments have already flopped this year I almost think they would be better off trying to hide the YA roots. Even the title 'Vampire Academy' is so on-the-nose and cheesy, like something for 12 year olds. I don't know how big the fanbase is for this series, but it's going to be an uphill climb to sell this outside that demographic.

RichC2

Twilight and Hunger Games were big movies because, in part, the books were huge across numerous age groups. Buying moderately popular franchises to turn into movies isn't going to have the same yield unless there is a lot of cross-over success to be had.

bunkaroo

If Twilight and Hunger Games are the cream of the crop....wow.