Plec also EPs Girls on the Bus, which was picked up straight to series at HBO Max. She is also the co-creator and co-showrunner of the new series Dead Day, along with longtime collaborator Kevin Williamson, which was recently picked up to series at Peacock, as well.

She is co-creator and co-showrunner of the upcoming series Vampire Academy, based on the popular book series, which recently wrapped production in Spain and debuts Sept. Plec is currently under an overall deal at Universal Television, where she is developing projects across all platforms for the studio, including those she is writing and creating, and those for which she is supervising writers under her banner. I can’t wait to go on this adventure with her.” As for Carina Adly MacKenzie, she is a story queen and a brainiac who is very funny and mind-blowingly thoughtful. “Though I had met her before, and though I adored The Originals and Legacies and Roswell, New Mexico, when we had drinks she was so wonderfully, amazingly astute about storytelling, she understood the themes in my books so well, and she was such an incredible powerhouse of business acumen and nutball levels of intelligence, I knew I would be insanely lucky to have her take charge of as many of my novels as she wanted. “One day in early 2020, Julie Plec and I drank white wine and ate taco chips together in a Mexican restaurant,” said Lockhart. Being able to adapt it for television is a career highlight for me - not to mention how thrilled I am to bring the lovely, intimate, emotional journey that is Again Again to life with Carina and the Emilys (Lockhart and Cummins).” It’s mysterious, romantic and devastating - and Family of Liars showed me just how sprawling and multi-generational the series can be.

“It’s one of the best YA novels I’ve ever read, and I’ve read a lot. “I’ve chased We Were Liars for years,” Plec said.

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