Another YA Adaptation Gets Its Cast
VA, a young adult series taking place in current time and focusing on Rose Hathaway, a dhampir (half human/half vampire) who finds her time stretched between training to be a guardian for her best friend, Lissa and navigating the ups and downs of first love, has found its leading cast members.
Preger Entertainment (Village of the Damned, The Day of the Triffids), the production company who bought the rights to Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy back in 2010, announced on their official Facebook page today that Zoey Deutch (Beautiful Creatures, Ringer), Lucy Fry (Lightening Point) and Russian actor, Danila Kozlovsky (Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg, Shpion) would be joining the film.
It’s not clear who is playing who, but just from the book descriptions it would seem that Deutch is set to play “Rose”, Fry “Lissa” and Kozlovsky “Dimitri”.
Dan Waters (Heathers) has penned the script and Mark Waters (Mean Girls) will be directing. (They’re brothers!)
VA fans, are you happy with these castings? What were your fan casts?
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What are some of the best history books or autobiographies on historical figures? I need some recs. Not too interested in USA history as much, but anywhere else in the world, from WWI era and earlier is interesting to me.
European royals and badass women in particular appeal to my interests.
although us history is amazing and i wish ppl didn't write it off. :)
i like us history well enough, but i'm a lot more particular about it. like, i love stuff about american mobsters and the mafia.
For relevancy, The American Future: A History, is excellent.
basically anything by Weir is interesting and readable, she's done a lot of writing on the Tudors too
also anything on eleanor of aquitaine, empress matilda, margaret of anjou if you enjoy historical badass ladies. anglo centric, but fun.
there's also "she wolves: women who ruled england before elizabeth" by helen castor, which is more popular history but good for an introduction/branching off point.
Edited at 2013-02-02 03:27 am (UTC)
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn by Eric Ives.
But if you're into European royals, you should prob. read The Sun King by Nancy Mitford, it's not great history but she does bring Versailles alive. Also her Madame de Pompadour biog. is good, she was a really good writer.