Peacock’s “Vampire Academy” Series Trailer
The first teaser trailer for the upcoming Vampire Academy television series was unveiled during a panel at Comic-Con!
School is just about in session—vampire school, that is. Though really, the first trailer for Vampire Academy is more court intrigue than vamp academia. The new series from vampire masterminds Julie Plec and Marguerite MacIntyre (The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Legacies) is based on Richelle Mead’s bestselling books about two best friends in the fraught world of vampire society.
The synopsis is vague:
Lissa, a Royal vampire, and her best friend and protector, Rose, navigate romance, class politics, and ancient magic at their boarding school for vampires. When a mysterious bond develops between the two friends, they must work together to decipher it, all while facing threats inside the gates and out, including the bloodthirsty and undead Strigoi.
The series remake arrives eight years after the 2014 film of the same name, which starred Zoey Deutch. Revisiting the not-so-classic tale of life and love at boarding schools, Vampire Academy twists the narrative of human and vampire relations, with a description of the series reading, “Two young women’s friendship transcends their strikingly different classes as they prepare to complete their education and enter vampire society.”
Both the NBC Universal remake and the 2014 movie are based on author Richelle Mead’s YA book series of the same name, Vampire Academy, which debuted in 2007. Giving fans a hint of what they can expect to see from this new iteration, series co-creator Julie Plec (she produced Vampire Diaries, FYI!) told Entertainment Weekly, “It’s got everything: It’s got the Bridgerton and The Hunger Games.”
“At its core, it’s a story about a friendship that nobody thinks can survive because society isn’t built that way — and yet, through thick and thin, they have each other’s backs,” Plec continued. “That’s what I love so much about it is yes there’s romance aplenty … But this is a story about these two women and how they, together, as a team are going to end up doing some really meaningful things in the world.”
Vampire Academy premieres on Peacock on September 15th.
