Given the recent announcement that a The Host paperback will contain a new chapter that Stephenie Meyer had to provide the film makers, it’s no surprise that the next bit of information about the the progress toward turning the book into a film is about the script. Deadline Hollywood has new information that Andrew Niccol, who penned the scripts for Gattaca and The Truman Show, is on draft number three of the script for The Host. Niccol was chosen because Gattaca is one of Stephenie Meyer’s favorite science fiction films. The two were introduced by the film’s producers and began working together towards a finished script. Producer Steve Schwartz said, “There is very good chemistry in this group. Stephenie is a very smart collaborator, and she had an intuitive strong hunch he would be the right guy. Based on the script we’ve seen, we think she was right. We’re thinking this will be shot in early 2011.” No casting decisions have been made yet, and it’s still uncertain if Niccol will also direct the film. Read the whole story over at Deadline New York.
Archives for March 2010
Update on “The Host” Movie Adaptation
Convention on a Budget
Over the last several weeks, we’ve had a bunch of people write in and ask, “Is it possible to do a convention on a budget?” The answer is yes. We’ll show you how below. You can always upgrade (or for that matter downgrade) from our suggestion below. For the sake of our example, we are using the Creation Entertainment Official Twilight Convention, but most other convention companies have very similar plans, just read the fine print.
So figuring that a trip to the movies costs roughly $10.00 for the ticket and another $5.00 or so for your popcorn and soda combo. There is actually a way to get a day’s entertainment for about $10.00 more than your standard trip to the movies.
If you go to the convention on a Saturday or Sunday, you usually end up seeing three stars minimum do a Q & A, you get a Lexicon panel (sorry shameless self promotion), a Hillywood panel, chance to win trivia/costume contest prizes, and the ability to take as many pictures as you want of the celebrities onstage with your own camera, and you have access to the vendor room where you can drop more cash if you so choose. All of this will run you $25.00, roughly $10.00 more than a trip to the movies.
Now let’s say you’re still on a budget but you want to upgrade a little. You can get an autograph with one of the actors in say your already purchased Twilight/New Moon Companion book so add $25. That brings you to $50.00 total.
Maybe you’re not into autographs, but you want a professional photo with you and an actor. That’s $40 to bring your total to $65.
Now let’s say you don’t care about professional photo ops or autographs, you just want to be able to take your own pictures and hear the actors talk, and you have all weekend. You can get the general admission weekend pass for $69. So you’ll get everything we described in our third paragraph plus more actors, panels, and trivia. And if you are dying for an autograph from your favorite actor, it brings you to $84.00.
So, there you have a couple of options all under $100 dollars, which granted is not cheap, but it does hopefully provide info to the folks asking. Like we said you can always upgrade from there if you want more like dances, personal meet and greets, preferential seating, etc.
Also one last item of note. Frequently on Twitter, because of the 140 character limit, people shorten the name of any Twilight convention to “twicon”. Not a big deal, but it does and has caused some confusion because there was also a company that did a convention last year in Dallas that just went out of business called “twicon”. Creation Entertainment, HUB Productions, Twilight FanTrips, Eternal Twilight, etc. all have events that people sometimes shorten to “twicon” but these companies have never had any association with the shortly defunct TwiCon Partners LLC that did a convention last year in Dallas and was supposed to do two this year in Vegas and Toronto/Ottowa.
MTV Awards Write In Campaigns
There are various write in campaigns going on for the MTV movie awards. We think we have them all compiled below, but if we missed one, please speak up in the comments! Basically this year MTV included a provision for fans to write in a candidate if their favorite was missing in that slot, so here’s what we have so far:
Breakthrough Female Performance: Ashley Greene as Alice.
Breakthrough Male Performance: Taylor Lautner, but there is some question that he might not be eligible because he was nominated in that role last year.
Best Villain: Rachelle LeFevre, Michael Sheen, Dakota Fanning. However maybe pick the first one so as not to split the vote!
Best Fight: Daniel Cudmore and Robert Pattinson, Edi Gathegi and the wolfpack.
So get over to MTV and get voting! TY to everyone who wrote in about reminding people about this feature especially Megan from the Because I Read Twilight I Have Unrealistic Expectations In Men facebook group.
Robert Pattinson: Metro Interview
The UK’s Metro talked to Robert Pattinson about Remember Me and his choice of roles:
“I never like anything, so it’s quite easy to decide what to do – I’ve never felt any pressure to do anything, particularly. Even when we were shooting it [Remember Me] I never thought about the box office…But this one, the way the dialogue was written, it just seemed much more naturalistic than most things. It’s not really a feel-good movie. They don’t make movies
like it anymore, I think that’s how I kind of choose stuff, that’s the only criteria I have. There seems to be a gap in the market for something and I just try and do that.””
See more on Metro. via Pattinson Online
Fourth and Final Birthday Giveaway: Stephenie Meyer Signed New Moon
This month we celebrate four years of being on line with the Twilight fandom. We posted a podcast four weeks ago talking about all kinds of funny moments and lessons learned over our time online. Every Wednesday this month we have given away birthday gifts to you, our dedicated readers, as a way of saying thank you for sticking with us and supporting us.
Each week we have asked a question that can be answered by listening to the podcast. So for the final giveaway we are back at it again. All you have to do is listen to the podcast for the answer and then post your answer here on the blog.
This week’s questions is: What caused Pel to film Rob Pattinson’s rear end?
This week’s prize: A signed, New Moon novel (paperback edition) by Stephenie Meyer.
If you want to win the signed New Moon by Stephenie Meyer, reply to this post with the correct answer. We will choose a winner at at 11:59pm est on March 31st. Good luck!
Chaske Spencer To Star in Shouting Secrets
According to a press release, chaske Spencer is slated to star in a new movie.
“Actor Chaske Spencer, star of The Twilight Saga film series: “New Moon” and “Eclipse” has officially signed on as the lead in the Korinna Sehringer film “Shouting Secrets” which will start shooting in Arizona on April 26th. Spencer will play Wesley Bishnik, a successful young writer in Los Angeles who is called back to his Native American upbringing after ten years in order to visit his sick mother.
This role hits close to home for Spencer who grew up on reservations in Idaho and Montana and left home to pursue his acting career. Spencer has also been very active in showing his support for the Native American Community including raising awareness about the snowstorm disaster victims from South Dakota’s Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe who were without power and water for weeks.
Using his celebrity to spotlight the issue, Chaske alongside manager Josselyne Herman, and Video Army Productions has created a star-studded PSA campaign, benefiting the snowstorm disaster victims from South Dakota’s Cheyenne River Sioux tribe. The PSA’s urge individuals to “shift the power to the people” and help to empower everyone to create sustainable, lasting change in their communities and countries. Celebrity volunteers including “Twilight” series stars: Alex Meraz, Gil Birmingham, Boo Boo Stewart, Julia Jones, and Justin Chon, as well as other celebrities Q’orianka Kilcher, Quddus, Dawn Olivieri, and Danielle Bisutti. This project is one of the UNITED GLOBAL SHIFT project’s that Chaske is championing.
Since the PSA has gone live on February 23rd over 6,000 letters have gone to Capitol Hill from people going to shiftthepowertothepeople.squarespace.com.
“Shouting Secrets” is a film from the creative team, Joke Film Productions, consisting of Producer / Director, Korinna Sehringer (“Survivor”) and Producer Ueli Josef Bollag.
Add M. Night Shyamalan to the Breaking Dawn Director Pile
At first the list included Gus Van Sant, Sofia Coppola, and Bill Condon discovered by Hollywood insider Nikkie Finke who writes for Deadline Hollywood. Then the name Stephen Daldry surfaced discovered by the LA Times. Right after that MTV (there seems to be a pattern here, you’ll see in a minute) asked The Runaways director, Floria Sigismondi, if she were interested and she gave a polite and non-committal answer.
Now enter M. Night Shyamalan, director of the upcoming The Last Airbender that stars Jackson Rathbone. MTV put the question to him, and to our surprise M. Knight (can we call him just Knight?) was a apparently fan of the first movie…who knew?
“”I would’ve loved to be– I love the series, and Catherine [Hardwicke’s] movie, it was one of my favorite movies of that year,” he said. “Really, I thought tonally, it was a perfect movie. I called her up after I saw ‘Twilight’ and was like ‘That was amazing.’ So I’m a big fan.”
Read the rest at MTV.
So, what do you think of the latest person to express interest in the project.
Jackson Rathbone Weighs in on 3-D and Breaking Dawn
Jackson Rathbone gives our personal favorite answer to date on who should direct Breaking Dawn!
So Now That We Had 8 Hours to Think About It…
So at 7:00am for Pel and 6:00am for Alphie we were given the news about the news about the release of The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. Around 4:00ish MTV contacted us and wanted to know what we thought, what fan reaction on the Lexicon was, and our overall opinion of fan reaction was. So Alphie, Lori, called MTV:
“Joffs felt fans weren’t reading Meyer’s post about the novella closely enough, or they would have seen that Meyer had been working on this story since she first finished writing “Eclipse” many years ago. “The Short Second Life” was written to be included in the “Twilight Saga” companion but had grown too large, and the publisher decided to put it out in conjunction with the film….”I think that that’s where fans are getting upset, because it looks like Stephenie has abandoned writing anything else to write about Bree, and I don’t think that’s what happened at all,” Joffs explained…
Joffs said she empathized with fans dying for a full version of “Midnight Sun,” but she saw the publication of “The Short Second Life”‘ only as a positive. “If this is what it takes — if publishing another novel, another little novella, another side of the story — to get her writing again and to get her back into publication again, I will take it. I’m grateful for anything she puts out there,” Joffs said about Meyer. “I will read whatever she publishes, happily.”
Our friend Amanda Bell, the Twilight Examiner, also was asked for her opinion:
“This is work by this author about this series that we’re all in love with,” Bell explained. “People are going to gravitate towards being totally hyped up about it. It’s going to be a big deal, for sure.”
For Bell, Bree Tanner was a character she had always been interested in. While some fans were confused as to why a character that only appeared for 10 pages in “Eclipse” would be the subject of her own 192-page novella, it made sense to Bell from the beginning.
“While reading the ‘Twilight’ series, you think that the Cullen family has really good perception of people, and so it was interesting to see that they were kind of willing to take [Tanner] under their wing,” Bell said. “There was a reason for that, and I was always curious to know more about her.”
Check out the whole story on MTV.
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