According to MTV Movies Blog, the producers of Twilight have discussed filming the entire series at the same time.
“It’s been discussed,” producer Greg Mooradian revealed to MTV News. “I can’t tell you we’re at that place yet, but it’s definitely been discussed.”
The advantages to such a plan are obvious: Rather than building sets and tearing them down only to be re-built a few years later, they can film multiple scenes; instead of selling vehicles and re-buying them, they can hold on to them; rather than having thirty-year-old actors pretending to still be in high school, they can stay the same age in each film.
“Our vampires can’t age…if they were like 45, people would say ‘What’s up?’” laughed director Catherine Hardwicke, citing one of the main problems with filming Stephenie Meyer’s “New Moon” and “Eclipse” novels. “[Filming them together] could be the case. Then, you just get it done.” [read more]
MTV is also asking for your video responses to every piece of Twilight news that they post - you can get more info here. :)
First and foremost I would like to say a very big thank you to everyone for submitting their birthday wishes! We have taken down the submission form as today is the deadline. We received an astounding 444 messages from the fans! That is utterly brilliant. You have made this our largest birthday compilation for Rob since 2005. All of your messages will be appearing on the birthday page by May 13th. Thank you again!
I’ve also made a pretty large gallery update today. =) I have uploaded approximately 515 images that range from MTV segments to the new How To Be interviews. Since it would take up a great deal of space if I were to post up thumbnails, I will simply just link you to all of the Twilight related galleries.
Many thanks to Marlene for pointing us to makingofeuropa.net which gives us a behind-the-scenes look into How To Be. The page on How To Be features a variety of clips from the director, producer, and some of the cast. Although Robert wasn’t interviewed, he is featured in pretty much all of the videos. They are all really fantastic, giving us more insight about what the movie truly is about and how it all came together. I’ve linked to all of the clips and featured an excerpt from each of them:
Oliver Irving (director & writer): I was drawing together lots of anecdotes. And that’s one of the reasons Robert Pattinson as Art works so well because he hadn’t been to drama school per se. He came at it through trying to understand what its about and playing a version of himself.
Justin Kelly (producer): How To Be is a bit different in the sense that in some ways it’s about the middle class; a real, original kind of take on life and its quirks
Joe Hastings (composer, co-writer): The lead characters’ tracks were written between me and Oliver and the lyrics were written between me and Oliver and we always envisaged that music surrounding it would reflect in some way the music of the lead character, but just in a preposterous or incidental way so it fits with scenes and ties in well.
Rebecca Pidgeon (actress): I spoke to Oliver about it and I asked how he wanted it to sound. He wanted it to sound American. So she is an American woman with a British son, she brought him up in England. I think she very repressed and businesslike and I think she’s quite horrified
Johnny White (actor): Working with Robert is a dream come true. Ever since I saw Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. No, it’s great, he’s very good.
Backstage: Includes footage of the filmmaking process.
If you were like me and breathlessly watched the countdown on the Official Twilight Movie site, waiting for a new, extended trailer to appear… now you’re sitting there wondering what the heck happened. According to the Twilight Lexicon:
Verified through Summit to clear up confusion once again regarding the trailers for the movie. The ONLY trailer that Summit has produced as of this moment is the trailer that you can see on Myspace. This trailer was given to MySpace as an exclusive and is therefore not seen elsewhere until Friday. On Friday the SAME teaser trailer that you have already seen will be placed on the official Twilight movie site as well as other sites all over the web. This also includes movie theaters!
Right now the low-quality version is only available. Maybe since tomorrow is “Twilight Tuesday” we will be able to get the HQ image…we just have to wait and see! In the mean time enjoy this stunning looking picture.
Also, the official Twilight movie site has placed up a countdown until the the official teaser trailer is released on the site!
Our forum is back up! So you can go ahead and register again. We are still in the tweaking stages so you just have to bear with us through this process.
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Let me just say that Rob really does just take your breath away. It’s almost too much how good looking he is and he just has a presence about him. And Kristen is beautiful. They were both so kind. They really ARE Edward and Bella.
We [Rob & Calicat] talked a little, with 3 other tweens that had showed up later. He wasn’t his normal shy self, maybe because there wasn’t a huge crowd jabbing pens down his throat… ;) I asked him to do the famous Edward Cullen pinching bridge of the nose move….he was like, “huh?” I was like, Hello!!! It’s THE signature move!!! And he was like…well, I have my own signature moves! And he demonstrated a few…and let me tell you….
Wowza.
Thanks ladies!
Catherine Hardwicke has once again updated the blog at Greetings from Twilight. She speaks of the filming being officially wrapped up, their encouncters with the forces of nature, and what she will be doing next to get the film ready for December 12th!
Twilight Mom Calicat and livejournal user Infektion were able to snag some pictures of Rob (and with Rob!) while on set in Southern California. Take a look:
Maggie (aka ScullingOnSquam) was visiting the set of Twilight and recently posted about her second day there. In it she says:
At one point Rob said, ‘I felt like I was falling apart during that take…’ and Catherine told him, ‘Then go with it. Fall apart. Fall into her. You are falling so into her, just use that.’ And of course the following take was flawless.
You can read it in full here on her blog (along with pictures). =)
We are STILL getting e-mails concerning the forums. As per the last newspost we have made: they ARE NOT complete thus you WILL NOT be able to register. Also, you WILL NOT be able to login with your old login because all users have been deleted when the forums were upgraded. We will let you know when you will again be able to register and post on the forums.
Also, staff are still getting emails concerning the site on their personal emails. Please STOP. The site has their own email for issues. From this point on any and all site issues directed to site staff personal emails will be deleted and ignored. DO email admins.po.net@gmail.com if you have any questions or concerns.
MTV just released new videos of the Twilight stars answering “burning questions” from the fans. Of course when it came to Rob the ultimate question was: “Will you marry me?” Check out his response in the video ;)
We have gotten a few emails concerning the forums. As it is evident, the forums are still under construction after we were forced to restart due to upgrades. You will not be able to register as the forums are not completely finished. We will let you know when you can register once more.
Please do not contact site admins and site staff on their personal e-mails. There is a site email for a reason. Contacting staff on their personal e-mail will only annoy them and will not get you any closer to having an answer. If you have any questions direct them to admins.po.net@gmail.com and we will be more than happy to help you there.
JoBlo.com just placed up their interview with Robert. You can read it in full here.
In addition to this news, a Twilight Mom user (amanda31), visited the Twilight set and was lucky enough to spend some nice quality time with Rob (about 45 minutes)! Here’s a bit of her report for you to view:
We talked about a bunch of stuff (that I won’t want to go into too much detail about for his privacy)…nothing groundbreaking, but still interesting, including:
- Washington, DC – that’s where I’m from, and even though his sister used to live there, he had never visited, so he was asking me what the city was like
- He told me about a car that he almost bought for $1000 recently, and other cars that he likes; he also wondered if he could get Volvo to give him one of the cars (they had 3 of them on set); oh, and he also said he just got his license recently, so he’s still practicing
- He wondered what town we were in since all the small downs looked the same (he actually asked me if we were in OR, ha)
- He said he was a little worried because he needed to get an apartment now that filming was over since he plans to move to LA (something he never thought he’d do); he said he’d like to live in a trailer or in the back of a car
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