Twilight: The MOVIE

Yes, you read right, there’s going to be a movie!  A MOVIE!!!  Oh, I am so excited.  I mean, I was excited when I first heard that Summit Entertainment was going over the possibility, but now it’s a reality.  They’re casting!  Actors!!  They’ve already cast Bella and Edward, now they only have to cast the rest of the characters.  They didn’t pick bad choices either.  Some people are all whiny and complain about who’s been cast, but I don’t know. I think that actors that were chosen will be able to pull off their parts believably enough, praying that the scrip actually gives the movie a story.  My friend wanted the cast to be newcomers that nobody’s really heart of before, you know, like they did for Harry Potter and Narnia.  However, they’re using a Harry Potter actor.  The dude who played Cedric Diggory, one Robert Pattinson, will be playing Edward.  I must say that the image Stephenie put up of him was not my favorite, but when I looked him up myself, I saw that he indeed could be the Edward of my imagination.  It’s hard, of course, switching from Henry Cavill, whose image I have coveted as Edward for a year now, but I’ll deal.

Bella is to be played by Kristen Stewart, who played the elder sister in Zathura and several other roles that I can’t bring to the front of my mind.  Like I’ve said, I’m pretty happy/content with the choices made.  I’ve not been a huge participant int he heated debates over who should play each role, though I’ve had my small opinions.  I still think Tom Welling would make a great Emmett, but I’m sure I will be quite happy with whomever they should choose.  They’ve been doing a great job so far.  They have, I’ve noticed, changed the story a bit.  I, being giddy when I read the summary of the not-yet-even-close-to-being-started movie, giggled incessantly.  I’m sure someone would have smacked me had anyone been in the room with me.  All in all I’m very excited.  Here’s the summary:

Based on the best-selling book series by Stephenie Meyer.

BELLA SWAN has always been a little bit different. Never one to run with the crowd, Bella never cared about fitting in with the trendy, plastic girls at her Phoenix, Arizona high school. When her mother remarried and sent Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she didn’t expect much of anything to change. But things do change when she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful EDWARD CULLEN. For Edward is nothing like any boy she’s ever met. He’s nothing like anyone she’s ever met,period. He’s intelligent and witty, and he seems to see straight into her soul. In no time at all, they are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance — unorthodox because Edward really isn’t like the other boys. He can run faster than a mountain lion. He can stop a moving car with his bare hands. Oh, and he hasn’t aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he’s immortal. That’s right — VAMPIRE. But he doesn’t have fangs — that’s just in the movies. And he doesn’t drink human blood, though Edward and his family are unique among vampires in that lifestyle choice.

To Edward, Bella is that thing he has waited 90 years for — a soul mate.

But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy.

Somehow or other, they will have to manage theirunmanageable love. But what will they do when LAURENT and JAMES, the Cullens’ mortal vampire enemies, come to town, looking for Bella?

Based on the #1 New York Times Bestselling series by Stephenie Meyer, TWILIGHT is a cultural phenomenon, with a fanatic fanbase that eagerly awaits this movie. Critically acclaimed director Catherine Hardwicke brings to life this modern, visual, and visceral Romeo and Juliet story of the ultimate forbidden love affair — between vampire and mortal.

As you can see, it’s not bad.  To the trained eye, and by that I mean those who’ve read the book, there are some definite slight differences from the book.  Yet, it still looks like they might be trying to stay true to the book.  One can’t say for sure, of course, but one may hope and guess.

This was the story that made me fall in love with the series.  This is the book that started it all.  I’ve been following the series for two years now and have not been disappointed once.  I’m hoping that Summit will do the series some justice, as movies have failed my hopes before.  It is incredibly hard not to get my hopes up all the way.  I try, but I still find my excitement creeping up to levels of doom should I find disappointment.  If I remember correctly, this movie is tentatively set to come out around September 12, 2008.  I don’t know if that’s exactly possible, seeing as they still have to finish casting, start production, do all the special effects and then bring it out.  From what I’ve seen of other movies, that doesn’t happen in one year.  So it’ may not be out until spring of 2009.  That’s a hard thing to think about, but I will force myself to deal and wait patiently.  I just hope this movie will be worth my patience.