A Twilight Saga Fansite
Apparently Snooki of the MTV show The Jersey Shore is going to be a Red Carpet correspondent for MTV at the MTV Movie Awards this weekend. She has plans for Robert Pattinson.
Don’t forget to vote for the awards. There is a lot of talk about the Twilight vote being split.
We’re not really sure if Jackson Rathbone is poking fun at a specific issue of lack of leadership in government in Los Angeles or in general, or frankly if that’s the real message at all. Like all satires it’s a bit, odd, dark, and offbeat (but it’s PG-13 and would be considered work safe if you want to click). Judge for yourself as to what you think the message is (or maybe no message at all), it seems to be an ongoing thing by various performers uploading to this YouTube Channel.
There are a series of videos from Kristen and Taylor’s fan event in Korea. The the 6th in the series is embedded above. The rest can be found here.
Q: Bree only appears in a couple pages of Eclipse. What was it about the character that made you want to explore her story further?
A: In the beginning, I wasn’t fascinated specifically by Bree — it was the newborns in general. While I was writing Eclipse, there was a lot going on behind the scenes, of course, things Bella didn’t know about. Because I was focused on Bella, I couldn’t delve too deeply into the newborns’ story, however, there was always in my mind a general idea of what they were up to. I had to think about that while I was pacing the plot: Bella is at this point, the newborns are doing this. To keep it all straight, eventually I made a calendar of the months of May and June — which is all Eclipse deals with — and wrote down on each square what was going on with Bella that day and what was happening in Seattle. So the story of the newborns was always a big part of the story of Eclipse. And it made me kind of sad that there was no way to express any of that in the book.
Bree is the only newborn mentioned by name in Eclipse, the only newborn who has contact with the Cullens (aside from being killed by them), and the only newborn who encounters the Volturi in the clearing. She lives the longest, so she is the narrator who can tell the full story. She was a natural choice to chronicle the story of the newborns. Once I started writing from her perspective, she really came alive. So much so that, as the inevitable end got closer, it was really depressing going ahead. It was harder for me to kill Bree than any other fiction character I’ve ever killed, even though I was killing her for the second time. (Before Bree, the saddest was Walter in The Host.)
See the rest in USA Today.
USA Today talks to Peter Facinelli about Coop from Nurse Jackie and Carlise from the Twilight Saga: how hard it is to play both during overlapping filming, who the real Peter would go to for medical care, and the changing of the scarf ritual in Eclipse.
“Dracula had his cape. But he has nothing on Peter Facinelli’s Carlisle Cullen and his scarves.
Given that members of the doctor’s makeshift family of vampires in the Twilight films are so batty for fashion that they tend to color-coordinate their ensembles with one another, it would make sense that their father figure would pay attention to his accessory choices. Even if there is always a threat of blood stains to consider.
But why exactly does the good doctor, who is more than three centuries old, have a yen for neckwear?
Says Facinelli, “I went to Catherine Hardwicke (the director of the first movie) and told her that Carlisle is a perfect gentleman and it would be interesting for him to wear scarves since they might have been in fashion at that time. Plus, after being bit on the neck, it might be a subconscious need to not have it exposed.”
So for Twilight and its sequel, New Moon, Carlisle almost always wore some sort of dangling swatch. However, the director of this summer’s Eclipse, David Slade, was not a big fan.
“He thought it was getting to be like Mickey Mouse ears,” says Facinelli of his signature apparel. But instead of just putting them in storage, the actor thought it might be better if he first made some sort of statement on-screen. “It’s a scene where I go to the werewolves for help. I take the scarf off. I wanted to show him standing before them naked and vulnerable.”
Luckily, Carlisle can always make a style statement with his Tweety Bird yellow hair”
Earth’s Mightiest, who recently interviewed producer Wyck Godfrey, talked to David Slade about his work on Eclipse.
“30 Days of Night director David Slade has turned his directorial eye towards The Twilight Saga with this month’s Eclipse. In this exclusive interview he discloses his reasons for joining the franchise and reveals what he is intending to bring to it.”
Check out the full media interview on Earth’s Mightiest.
The Soundtrack Examiner interviewed the Academy Award winning composer of the Eclipse score, Howard Shore.
“In the last decade, Howard Shore is among the very few Hollywood film music composers to become a household name. Although he has been in the business since the 1970s and racking up over 80 film and television credits, Shore’s name rose to international stardom in 2001 when he carved the musical landscape for Peter Jackson’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy. Shore won three Academy Awards, three Golden Globes, and four Grammys just for those three films.
Since then, he has enveloped himself in the world of high drama, scoring such emotional (and suspenseful) rollercoasters as THE DEPARTED, GANGS OF NEW YORK, EASTERN PROMISES, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, and EDGE OF DARKNESS, among many others.
Recently, he has added his name to another viciously famous franchise, THE TWILIGHT SAGA, providing the score to what will undoubtedly be a summer blockbuster, ECLIPSE. Shore has had his share of skeptics questioning his rationale for taking on such a project, but with one listen to the score, any doubt melts into the “twilight.”
The ECLIPSE score, at its core is a tumult of extreme emotions, where at any given time, it is simultaneously sincere, alluring, and terrifying. Shore makes extensive use of solo piano for character themes, displaying a naked vulnerability uncapturable by any other instrument. And his penchant for heaving violins and cellos are the earth Stephenie Meyer’s characters trod upon. ECLIPSE can pounce on you like a ravenous jaguar, cloud your judgment like a dense fog, or tantalize your senses with kaleidoscopic color-tones.
Howard Shore is a master of creating realms where nightmares and fantasy bleed together, and where beauty and the beast often inhabit the same body. While his time is strongly in demand, we did manage to obtain a bit of time to chat with the man who casts a twilight shadow on ECLIPSE!”
Read the full interview at the Soundtrack Examiner.
Meet Jodelle Ferland as Bree, and hear Stephenie Meyer’s thoughts on her portrayal.
Screen Terrier is reporting that Jamie Campbell Bower will start filming a ten part TV series based on the story of Camelot. Bower will play King Arthur opposite Tamsin Egerton as Guinevere. The series is being produced by the same filmmakers who brought The Tudors to Showtime. We have no news if this is another Showtime series, but that’s what we’re guessing.
Follow Us!