Julie Plec, creator of The Vampire Diaries and spinoff The Originals, has long wanted to adapt YA book series Vampire Academy.She is now getting the chance after Peacock ordered an adaptation straight-to-series.The streamer has ordered the ten-episode series, which will be adapted by Plec and Marguerite MacIntyre, from Universal Television, where Plec is under an overall deal.Vampire Academy is a series of books – six in total – from author Richelle Mead.
It is a story of romance, friendship, death, sex, and scandal. In a world of privilege and glamour, two young women’s friendship transcends their strikingly different classes as they prepare to complete their education and enter royal vampire society.
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