Entertainment Tonight Exclusive: On the Set of 'Vampire Academy'

Exciting News Vampire Academy fans!

Entertainment Tonight recently visited the set of Vampire Academy in the UK and just released an exclusive video with the cast. This movie is an adaptation of the first novel in Richelle Mead's best-selling Vampire Academy book series. I read this series when it first came out and continue to love it to this day. I highly recommend these books because they are excellent, well written, and very relatable. Check out the On Set Exclusive below!

In the addicting series, Zoey Deutch plays Rose Hathaway, a half human/half vampire who runs away from her school, St. Vladimir's Academy, with her best friend Lissa (Lucy Fry). When she is brought back by Guardian Dimitri Belikov (Danila Kozlovsky), the two develop intense feelings for one another when he begins to serve as her mentor, but face complications given their age difference and the fact that he's her instructor.

But according to Deutch, their romance runs far deeper than just the idea of forbidden attraction.

"Well I think there's a definite sense of 'Yeah, you want something you can't have,' but at the same time it does feel like from the moment they see each other, it is love at first sight," she tells ET. "There is some sort of undeniable connection that even when they do end up 'doing the do' -- or whatever you call it -- it's just not something that couldn't happen and therefore they're attracted to one another. I really feel like they are in love with each other."

"I love what's happening between me and Rose," echoes Kozlovsky. "It's very special, a very unique relationship, and I love it. It's sort of a lot of tension between me and Rose. I think it's gonna be very interesting for you."

However, the series' author Mead downplays the taboo nature of their romance.

"The idea for Rose and Dimitri's romance was one that was kicking around in my head for awhile. It's difficult being a former teacher to be writing about a student and a teacher who have a romance together -- because we're always taught that that's a very wrong thing -- and certainly it absolutely can be in that situation, so I'm certainly not encouraging that in people," she explains. "The age difference isn't that great between them. Mainly, you know, what the romance's big point is, [is] it's about love that has to challenge society's ideas -- that's what they're facing, and that's what it comes down to."

As for if the film stays true to the book, Mead says that she was pleasantly surprised by the faithfulness of the adaptation.

"What surprises me the most is how true it [the script] is to the book. I came in fully expecting, 'OK, we're going to slash and cut and change all kinds of things from the book to the script,' and [screenwriter] Daniel Waters just did an amazing job. He's got all the main parts of the books -- all the main beats are there -- all the parts from the characters we love, he's got all of those. He really gets it. He gets what I was trying to do with the balance of action and romance and humor."

Watch the video for a peek into the world of Vampire Academy, including Fry on how important Rose and Lissa's friendship is to the film and what Sarah Hyland (Natalie) makes of all the Twilight comparisons.

Vampire Academy will be featured this Friday at New York Comic Con.

Written Interview was found at ET Online

Vampire Academy hits theaters on February 14th, 2014!

VIDEO: 'Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters' First Official Trailer

Finally, here it is! The first official trailer for the much anticipated movie, Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters. As a fan of the book series I think it looks amazing so far. Let me just say, upon seeing footage of Zoey Deutch as Rose Hathaway and Lucy Fry as Lissa Dragomir it has pleased me greatly. They are so perfect for their roles. I'm especially excited to see more of Danila Kozlovsky as Dimitri Belikov. Without further ado, check out the trailer below!

What did you all think of the trailer? Let us know in the comments!

'Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters' First Stills Released

This morning, USA Today released online the first stills from the highly anticipated Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters movie. The teaser trailer will debut later today as well, so stay tuned for that. It will be posted on this site as soon as possible.

Zoey Deutch, left, Lucy Fry and Sarah Hyland, attend 'Vampire Academy,' a highly unusual high school.

Vampire Academy director Mark Waters sums up his half-human, half-vamp heroine Rose with one word: moxie.

"She's got a lot of personality, and that fun, brassy energy is what makes Rose interesting," the filmmaker (Mean Girls) says of the character played by Zoey Deutch in the movie, adapted from the first book of Richelle Mead's young-adult series by Waters' brother Daniel (Heathers).

Zoey Deutch gets into character as Rose Hathaway

"I love this story and Rose and every aspect of it just as much as any die-hard fan," Deutch says. "I'm stoked for people to see how we've remained loyal to the book but also injected some of our own colors into it."

In theaters Feb. 14, Vampire Academy centers on St. Vladimir's Academy, a school for kids with amazing powers, where Rose is being trained to be a supernatural bodyguard for her best friend Lissa (Lucy Fry), a Moroi princess with whom Rose shares a deep bond. The film begins with them being returned to St. Vladimir's after they've escaped, though dark forces are working within the academy to scare Lissa and leaving threatening messages like "Leave or die."

Zoey Deutch (Rose) alongside onscreen love interest, played by Danila Kozlovsky (Dimitri).

Mark Waters says Vampire Academy distinguishes itself from Twilight and similar YA fare a few ways.

The vampiric Moroi may live off blood and have magical powers but they're not bad — they're a refined royal culture who don't kill anybody. However, those who choose to go to the dark side and murder become undead immortal creatures known as Strigoi.

Also, while Harry Potter and other YA protagonists are wet behind the ears and have to have their new otherworldly situation explained to them, Rose is not an innocent — she's deeply embedded in this culture, and her aggressive personality is pretty much the polar opposite ofTwilight's Bella Swan.

Deutch, 18, says her sense of humor is as brutal as her fighting skills. "Someone who I, Zoey Deutch, would not want to mess with."

Rose may be a very pretty girl but she's got a lot of testosterone, Waters adds. "She has a wicked sense of humor and is openly sexual — when she likes a guy, she goes after him. It's not at all like the shy, demure creatures you'll meet in the YA novels."

And while both Rose and Lissa have love interests, Vampire Academy has more of a "sisters before misters" vibe than its ilk. "The person they're running after at the end of the movie is each other, not the guy," Waters says.

Still, Rose is a teenager with hormones and she's definitely got the hots for her mentor Dimitri, played by Russian actor Danila Kozlovsky.

"For Zoey, she was quite smitten with him in reality, and treating him in the god-like manner they refer to him in the book wasn't much of a stretch for her," Waters says.

The supporting cast also features Joely Richardson as the Moroi Queen Tatiana; Gabriel Byrne as Victor Dashkov, a man close to Rose and Lissa; Modern Family star Sarah Hyland as his geeky daughter Natalie, a friend to both girls; and Olga Kurylenko as Ellen Kirova, the headmistress who clashes with Rose and rules St. Vladimir's with an iron fist.

While Waters was loathe to return to a movie "where I heard locker doors slamming," he and his brother found ways to pump Vampire Academy with subversive comedy a la Mean Girls and Heathers.

"We have this great juicy drama dynamic, where the stakes are particularly high, but that didn't keep us from wanting to inject some of the humor that comes from teenagers trying to get along," Water says.

"You root for these characters like crazy till the bitter end," Deutch adds, "but there are still laughs throughout the whole journey."