Tuesday, November 18, 2008
By: Tammy Sutton
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The popularity of the Twilight books is a complete mystery to it’s author, Stephenie Meyer. She originally wrote it for herself, a 29-year-old mother of three, but it's no mystery to the hundreds of thousands of fans. The popularity of the book series is so huge that even we were compelled to cover the film here at Bloody Disgusting. While we know it’s not a straight up horror film, it does have vampires, and some bloodletting. TWILIGHT may be a nice gateway for a younger generation of horror fans, something dark to pique people’s interests. With that, we went to the press junket for the film TWILIGHT, which opens in theaters this Friday, November 21st. Meyer was her usual charming self, re-answering questions that hundreds of fan websites have covered.
A few years back Meyer sold the rights for the movie to a different company, she realized that they we not going to do the book justice, and almost didn't renew the rights to anyone.
“It was a horrifying experience, I had realized that it could go wrong, and that it could be done badly, that they would do something that had nothing to do with the [original] story, that was shocking to me.”
The book and film are 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.
When Summit wanted the rights, Meyer was wary but agreed after getting it in writing that they had to stick to the fundamental elements of the story.
“Tthe vampires have to have the same basic rules as the vampire world I’ve created, which means no fangs, no costumes, they have to sparkle in the sunlight, the characters have to exist by their present names and you can’t kill anyone that doesn’t die in the book.”
When she was finally able to screen the final product she explains, ”So many scenes looked the way I had envisioned them, it was partially creepy and partially wonderful. … I think the acting in this movie is something special.”
An interesting note was about how much involvement she had with the screenplay. The filmmakers and the company behind the film at Summit asked for her input on the script, they incorporated about 90% of her notes.
“One thing I insisted on keeping true to the book is “the lion and lamb” line,” Meyer tells us at the junket where she revealed even more. “I actually think that the way Melissa [Rossenburg] wrote it sounded better for the movie, it was just a little more relaxed, but the problem is that that line is actually tattooed on people’s bodies, which I don’t approve of by the way…”She continues, “If you take that line and change it, that’s a potential backlash situation.”
The Fans in this case were certainly helping Meyer in her decision-making, but what is it about vampires that so many people are connecting with? Meyer explains her theory.
“I am not a vampire fan, and never have been. I don’t do horror, I’m an enormous scaredy cat, Hitchcock is about as much as I can handle, and I love it, but anything more then that and you’re not going to see me in the theater. It’s widely out of character for me to write about them [vampires].
“Besides myself, it seems that everybody really loves to be scared, in a controlled environment, horror movies do really well, it’s a big industry, people read a lot of scary books, I’m just missing that gene.”
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So, vampires without fangs that don't perish in sunlight......hmmmmm.
How about vampqueers? |
"The book and film are about a high school girl named Bella falls in love with a vampire." - It's bad enough you yokels are covering this crap, but do you not proofread your articles - at all? |
i'm sure so many on this site are wishing that the movie and books never happened! LOL. |
We are gonna be hearing about this shit for the next 6 months! |
Now we know why its crap, she doesn't have any teeth for horror. R.L Stine has more guts than this hack bitch! |
If there's one thing horror fans love to do it's complain about shit they could just ignore. |
^: While we could ignore it, it still takes up space that could be used for plenty of other movies that deserve the publicity much more than TWILIGHT and never get covered on the site. the coverage should be towards the bottom of the page like how dreadcentral does it and not where readers who are in a hurry look first. nobody on this site seems to enjoy covering it, and if it's about the money, just stick it somewhere more discreet so we can focus on news that we actually care about it. just a suggestion |
Calm down people, don't hate on BD! I'm not fan of twilight, but they cover this stuff for us, noone has to lash out, just beacuse they don't like the movie, remember people, they don't have to do this site. Get off your rags, and manrags and get over it. Don't gang up and hate, when they could say,"why are you on so long any who?" right? So I suggest people show respect to those who give us our horror fix and those who can't leave. |
"It takes up space that could be used for plenty of other movies..."
Um...you do realize that the internet won't run out of room, right? There's plenty of room for everybody. |
^: i mean on the front page |
Im so tired of hearing about all this twilight shit!!! |
Here is the thing to everyone who bitches about people like me bitching about Twilight. I wouldn't expect to see a story about High School Musical 3 on a website like Superherohype.com. That website is dedicated to superhero inspired movies. Now then, when I come here to "Bloody Disgusting" I expect to read about horror movies, not a watered down for teens only "vampire movie". Anyone who calls Twilight a horror movie is delusional and you are kidding yourself. I have the right to bitch about this movie because I am on a horror movie website, and Twilight is not a horror movie. With Mr. Disgusting devoting so much time and effort to promoting Twilight, I would expect a casual guest of this website to confuse Twilight for horror. That would be a shame, because any money given to the people behind Twilight will only make them want to make more shitty movies under the disguise of being a real horror movie. No more Twilight, no more shitty movies, no more teen drama please. |
HORROR: intense and profound fear
Twilight: pg-13 MTV garbage
Bloody_disgusting.com: All Things Horror??
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But again, that's the thing: you don't HAVE to read it. And that's not a very good comparison, considering that Twilight is a lot closer to the genre than High School Musical is to super heroes. You guys act like your obligated to read it and I still don't understand why you let it get under your skin so much. Whatever, keep complaining; sorry that its ruining your feng shui, lol. |
It used to be that every article about Twilight contained at least one "Ugh", now he seems happier to cover it. Hmmm, I smell payoff. ;) |
Wow..vampires that sparkle...no fangs..written by someone who is really too scared to write something truly in the horror genre(but she is smokin' hot, I gotta admit)..?
Wow..teeny bopper horror. Now next thing you know they'll remake Near Dark...and have Severn sparkle and explode into little glittery dust pieces to get the teens..
Of course, we'll hear about this travesty forever..especially as they are already planning sequels, I understand.
I have nothing against the movie as I won't see it..but please don't market it as horror if it's not. Just because it's got vampires..well..insert your own suck joke here.
THEY SPARKLE?! |
If laboring a hybrid baby that is breaking your ribs (amongst other things) and causing you to drink blood-with joy-then throw up fountains of that blood, followed by a delivery that the father assisted in using his teeth to take the baby out-ISN'T horrific, then I don't know what is :-|. Tell me that you WOULDN'T want to see that on a big screen. |
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