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SDCC ’08: Report From the ‘Twilight’ Panel
At this year’s San Diego Comic Con one of the biggest shockers for me was how hot Summit Entertainment’s Twilight was. I’m excited purely because I love director Catherine Hardwicke, but apparently the book is HUGE and the fangirls were on hand screaming, yelling and fighting to be the first to see footage from the adaptation. SpookyDan sends in a report, that includes a brief interview with Hardwicke and star Stephenie Meyer. The film is about a high school girl named Bella falls in love with a vampire. The new couple leads a rival vampire clan to pursue them and attempt to force her to decide if she, too, wishes to become one of the undead. Read on for the skinny. Click here for all Comic Con coverage.
Twilight Excites Comic Con to a Fevered Frenzy!
Thursday afternoon at the San Diego Comic Con was the highlight for fans of the upcoming vampire film TWILIGHT.
Super fans camped out the night before just to get into the 2pm panel with cast members, director Catherine Hardwick, and the woman behind the incredibly popular film and book series, Stephanie Meyer.
I have been to Comic Con numerous times, and I have never seen a crowd so crazy for an upcoming film – even the STAR WARS fans were given a run for their passion today.
There were rumors of people passing out, much crying and screams heard across the convention, but the big excitement for the film peaked as heartthrob Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen) arrived with his mussed up hair (video and audio file coming soon!).
Luckily for you “Twihards” (Twilight super fans) we at Bloody got a chance got to sit down with Stephanie Meyer and Catherine Hardwick, during a roundtable session at the convention. Both woman were really excited to be there and happy to chat with us about it. Here are some highlights from the conversation.
Catherine Hardwick: Bloody Disgusting, alright!
SpookyDan: Coming from LORDS OF DOGTOWN, was it hard a hard transition to get inside this world?
Catherine Hardwick: I love this world i fell in love with Stephanie’s world the first time I read it, its like I’m there! I want to see it, I want to breathe it in and see it come to life.
SpookyDan: Did you know about how nuts it was before you signed on?
Catherine Hardwick: I didn’t know it was going to be this crazy (laughs)!
SpookyDan: By the time it got to the movie, you knew the fandom had gone through the roof?
Stephanie Meyer: I was really surprised. I knew I had my little group of fans, and the way that they responded to the movie and the thing sort of took off online, I was surprised! I know how passionate the fans can get, but there are so many of them. It kind of like WOW!
Catherine Hardwick: It’s cool that’s its so creative for people, they are making their own trailers and songs and it has sparked a creative explosion, I think it’s really exciting.
Stephanie Meyer: I love the (fan created) youtube videos, I think its fantastic.
SpookyDan: Stephanie did you have any say in the casting of the film?
Stephanie Meyer: A little bit, but not contractual. One of the great things about the studio Summit is that they have been very cooperative; they DID want me to be a part of things. If there was a situation where I really wanted to see a change, they actually listened to me.
SpookyDan: Catherine are you signed on to do all the rest of the films?
Catherine Hardwick: Well, no exact decisions have been made yet, but its all getting figured out now. We all hope for it, and we got our finger crossed!
Stay tuned here at Bloody-Disgusting over the next week as we unveil mp3s of the interviews with almost everyone in the cast, and we have uncut video footage of Robert Pattinson that no one else has!
Described as “Ted meets ET,” David Mikalson’s raunchy comedy Goblin is being brought to life over at A24, and Will Forte (“The Four Seasons”) is now in talks to star.
Deadline first reported the news this afternoon.
Kenneth Branagh has been cast to voice the titular Goblin in the upcoming A24 movie, with the character said to be “green-colored” as well as “anatomically correct.”
Skyler Gisondo (Superman) is reportedly playing the Goblin’s human best friend.
The mysterious project sounds a bit like films including A Gnome Named Gnorm and more recently, Frankie Freako, though it’s important to note that it’s not billed as a horror movie.
Deadline details, “After [Mikalson] hatched the idea to make an outrageous buddy comedy about a goblin, using a practical puppet and operating outside the Hollywood system, his script quickly got him a rep team. While others might have eyed the raunchy comedy as a writing sample or planned to wait to see the micro-budget version Mikalson has been directing in Kentucky, A24 jumped all over it. The hot indie essentially has agreed to finance a full feature.”
“There was a lot of interest, but A24 came with what Mikalson really wanted, after spending all his money crafting the puppet title character: they acquired the movie and agreed to let him make it with a significantly increased budget than what he had left after creating the anatomically correct title character,” Deadline’s report goes on to explain.
What does the titular Goblin actually look like? Well, a cake that Mikalson had whipped up for his reps might give us our first look at what to expect. Deadline explains the photo you’ll see down below, “Take a look at the cake he commissioned with Marc Gravelle at Cake Art in West Hollywood, to present to his reps as thanks for making his dream come true.”
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