Who's who among the 'Vampire Academy' cast and filmmakers

 Danila Kozlovskiy is a twenty-six-year-old actor from Moscow, Russia, who’s starred in several native films such as Soulless and Five Brides.Upon being announced for the hunky role of Dimitri Belikov, Danila received ample attention on his Twitter feed and responded simply, “Thank you all for your greetings from around the world. This is really, really nice and touching! From Russia with love to ..”Vampire Academy author Richelle Mead blogged that she was happy the casting agents chose a native Russian for the role because she’d “hate it if real Russians saw the movie and were like, ‘That guy is obviously fake.’”He can be found on Twitter @KozlovskyD. Lucy Fry, a relative newcomer to the entertainment industry who stars in the Australian TV teen drama series Lightning Point, will star as Lissa, the Moroi best friend of Zoey Deutch’s Rose who returns to her special vampire training school St. Vladimir’s Academy after having run away for two years.Upon being cast for the role, Fry tweeted her immense gratitude by writing, “I'm unbelievably excited and honored to have been cast in Vampire Academy as Lissa.”She can be found on Twitter @MsLucyFry. Zoey Deutch, who stars in Feb. 14's fellow YA book-to-screen adaptation Beautiful Creatures, has been chosen to star as the seventeen-year-old Dhampir Rosemarie Hathaway ("Rose"), a student at St. Vladimir's Academy who returns to her school after running away and is taken under the wing of Guardian Dimitri Belikov.Deutch is best known for her recurring role on the TV series Ringer.After the announcement of her casting for the role, Zoey Deutch expressed her excitement by celebratingVampire Academy fan art on Facebook.She is the youngest daughter of actress Lea Thompson and can be found on Twitter @ZoeyDeutch.View the list »
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Richelle Mead's six-book Vampire Academy series is now heading to the big screen, and it's already got a few actors and filmmakers in tow.

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As reported by Deadline Hollywood, Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters will be co-financed by Reliance Entertainment and IM Global as an effort to pick on the popularity of both the books and the teen vampire genre at large (a la Twilight and The Vampire Diaries).

Castmembers now attached to star include Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry and Danila Kozlovskiy, and director Mark Waters will helm based on the script by his own brother Daniel Waters of Heathers fame.

Based on Mead's stories of two supernatural young women sent back to St. Vladimir's Academy after two years of escape, the film is the potential series starter for the two financiers.

Check out this list to learn more about who's who among Vampire Academy's earliest Hollywood attachments!

St. Vladimir's Academy isn't just any boarding school–it's a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They've been on the run, but now they're being dragged back to St. Vladimir's–the very place where they're most in danger. Rose and Lissa become enmeshed in forbidden romance, the Academy's ruthless social scene, and unspeakable nighttime rituals. But they must be careful lest the Strigoi–the world's fiercest and most dangerous vampires–make Lissa one of them forever.

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  •  Zoey Deutch, who stars in Feb. 14's fellow YA book-to-screen adaptation Beautiful Creatures, has been chosen to star as the seventeen-year-old Dhampir Rosemarie Hathaway ("Rose"), a student at St. Vladimir's Academy who returns to her school after running away and is taken under the wing of Guardian Dimitri Belikov.Deutch is best known for her recurring role on the TV series Ringer.After the announcement of her casting for the role, Zoey Deutch expressed her excitement by celebratingVampire Academy fan art on Facebook.She is the youngest daughter of actress Lea Thompson and can be found on Twitter @ZoeyDeutch.
  •  Lucy Fry, a relative newcomer to the entertainment industry who stars in the Australian TV teen drama series Lightning Point, will star as Lissa, the Moroi best friend of Zoey Deutch’s Rose who returns to her special vampire training school St. Vladimir’s Academy after having run away for two years.Upon being cast for the role, Fry tweeted her immense gratitude by writing, “I'm unbelievably excited and honored to have been cast in Vampire Academy as Lissa.”She can be found on Twitter @MsLucyFry.
  •  Danila Kozlovskiy is a twenty-six-year-old actor from Moscow, Russia, who’s starred in several native films such as Soulless and Five Brides.Upon being announced for the hunky role of Dimitri Belikov, Danila received ample attention on his Twitter feed and responded simply, “Thank you all for your greetings from around the world. This is really, really nice and touching! From Russia with love to ..”Vampire Academy author Richelle Mead blogged that she was happy the casting agents chose a native Russian for the role because she’d “hate it if real Russians saw the movie and were like, ‘That guy is obviously fake.’”He can be found on Twitter @KozlovskyD.
  •  Director Mark Waters is perhaps best known for his work on Mean Girls, Freaky Friday and Just Like Heaven. He also directed the pilot for the recent CBS show Made In Jersey and was recently attached to the reboot of Sabrina The Teenage Witch.Waters is quoted by Deadline to state of the Vampire Academy script, “It was the best first draft I had ever read, and that includes other screenplays by my brother … This is a dream project for us, since we have wanted to work together for so long. Richelle’s mythology and the world she creates is so real and her voice so clear. These kids have real life, modern day problems. And they drink blood.”He can be found on Twitter @MarkWatersFILM.
  • Richelle Mead is, of course, the author of the six book Vampire Academy series upon which the film(s) will be based.She wrote on her blog about the script adaptation of her work:I was actually blown away when I saw how true it was to the story. Seriously, it's awesome. I have no idea where this Rose, Lissa, and Dimitri triangle rumor came from, but it's NOT true, unless they completely rewrote the script in the last month. Rose and Dimitri have eyes for each other, and Lissa and Christian are kissing in the church. The only differences are very minor things--like in The Hunger Games, where Prim gives Katniss the mockingjay pin. Is that what happened in the book? No, but it streamlines some things, saves them from hiring an extra actress, and doesn't affect the main plot. Rest easy, there are no crazy changes, like werewolves attending the school or Rose and Christian discovering they're long lost siblings. Although, that last one might be hilarious.Seriously--the script is great. They've given Dimitri lines that are going to make you swoon, especially in the lust charm scene.She can be followed on Twitter @RichelleMead.
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