Another vampire series comes to big screen

I guess vampires are pretty much the hottest thing out there at the moment. While the first "Twilight" is currently awaiting release, news comes of a new vampire series being prepped for a transition to the big screen.

Variety reports producers Michael Birnbaum and Jeremiah Chechik have acquired the rights to adapt "House of Night," a series of novels written by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast.

In the series, so-called "vampyres" are already accepted in society, although they carry special marks and attend a special school where they get the right training to become adult vampyres.

The protagonist in these books is a girl whose life takes a drastic turn when she becomes a vampyre and must change schools.

"Untamed," the fourth book in the series, was recently released. No word yet on how the whole thing will look like on the big screen. If a first movie turns out to be successful, I'm sure more will follow.