Vampire Academy 2 Isn’t Happening – Frostbite Movie Cancellation Explained

2014 Vampire Academy was based on a best-selling young adult novel series and about to launch the next successful YA film franchise, but Vampire Academy 2 never happened. Directed by Mean Girls‘Mark Waters, the Vampire Academy The film adapts the first book in the series by Richelle Mead. Follows best friends Rose Hathaway (Zoey Deutch), a Dhampir (human-vampire hybrid), and Lissa Dragomir (Lucy Fry), a Moroi (a race of peaceful vampires), who run away from their boarding school, St. to be captured and forced to return.

The first Vampire Academy The novel was published in 2007, a time when young adult book series, especially those centered on the supernatural, were growing in popularity.. This was the same year that both Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Eclipsethe third book of Twilight Sagawere published. Both series became such huge film franchises that the adaptations of their final books were split into two films. With Hunger Games not far behind, raises more than a few eyebrows that Vampire Academy It didn’t even get a sequel.

Vampire Academy 2 isn’t happening because the first film bombed at the box office

Preger Entertainment launched a failed Indiegogo campaign to fund Frostbite

Unfortunately, unlike the first films in the Dusk or Harry Potter franchises, Vampire Academy It was dead on arrival when it launched in 2014. The film barely made back half of its minuscule $30 million budget, grossing just over $15 million at the worldwide box office. (through Mojo Box Office). Vampire Academy it wasn’t screened to critics, which is usually a sign that a movie studio knows their film is a flop. When experts had the chance to review the film, the reviews were terrible. It received a paltry 17% in Rotten tomatoeswith the critical consensus saying:

While it may appeal to its built-in fan base, Vampire Academyof Dusk-do you know-Mean Girls the conceit borrows lazily from its predecessors and offers few laughs or thrills to complement its overwrought story.

It is not news that with few critics or fans defending a Vampire Academy 2nothing was announced. However, Preger Entertainment, the company that acquired the rights to the Vampire Academy book series, made one last attempt to secure financing for a sequel. In the summer of 2014, they launched a campaign on the crowdfunding website Indiegogo in an effort to raise the final $1.5 million needed to film Vampire Academy 2also known as Freezing (through Forbes). Unfortunately, they fell short of their goal, raising just $254,500, and Vampire Academy 2 never materialized.

The 2022 Vampire Academy Show Also Failed To Make Audiences Take A Bite

Peacock canceled the series after one season

In the 2020s, Vampire Academy fans had renewed hope of seeing their beloved book series back on the screen. This time, the adaptation came in the form of a television series. Peacock released season 1 of Vampire Academy in September 2022, with Sisi Stringer and Daniela Nieves leading the Vampire Academy cast in the respective roles of Rose Hathaway and Lissa Dragomir. Unlike the 2014 film, Vampire Academy the first season did not directly adapt the first book and instead took inspiration from the novels as a whole to tell a new story.

Critics were much kinder to the television series than the film, giving Peacock’s Vampire Academy an admiral 77% in Rotten tomatoes. However, the show failed to impress audiences, as reflected in Rotten Tomatoes’ 44% audience score (compared to 56% in the film). In January 2023, it was announced that Peacock had canceled both Vampire Academy and another YA series, One of us is lying. With a failed film and a TV adaptation, Vampire Academy fans waiting for a Vampire Academy 2 may have to settle for rereading Freezing.