Richelle Mead Weighs in on Vampire Academy Film with CBS News

"Vampire Academy" author Richelle Mead weighs in on film, possible sequels

Richelle Mead is enjoying watching the fruits of her labor play out in movie form.

The author behind the best-selling young adult series "Vampire Academy" is happy with how director Mark Waters is reimaging her 2007 novel for the big screen. The film, which stars Zoey Deutch, Sarah Hyland, Olga Kurylenko, Joely Richardson and Gabriel Byrne, follows Rose Hathaway (Deutch), 17-year old half-vampire who's training to be a bodyguard for living vampires. Her life gets complicated as she soon realizes the dangers her new role involves.

"Everything I've seen I thought was really well done," Mead told CBSNews.com about the film, which lands in theaters on Feb. 14, 2014. "The books are very hard to stick into any one genre. They've got these humorous moments. Then they've got these serious moments. It's just such a mix and I love that they capture that and didn't go in all one direction. They didn't make it so melodramatic with no jokes. On the other hand, they didn't suddenly make it a farce either. They got what I was trying to do, which is live is a juxtaposition of all these different things, so why not make a story about life. I think they really got the tone well."

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