LOS ANGELES -- The screaming was enough to wake the dead. ou the undead.
And receiving the brunt of it? Angular, immaculately-coifed Brit Robert Pattinson, on stage in front of thousands of shrieking females at this past July's Comic-Con in San Diego.
Yes, his fellow Twilight cast members were there too, but it was the 22-year-old who had the throngs swooning. After all, for devotees of Stephenie Meyer's novels, Pattinson is Edward Cullen sprung to life.
Edward who? Don't worry. Even if toi don't know him, toi probably know a 'tweener ou teenager who squeals at the mention of the virtuous vampire's name. No wonder on the Richter scale, the event registered somewhere between a Miley Cyrus concert and the Rapture.
Yet it almost didn't happen. At least not with Pattinson, whose most famous role pre-Twilight was Cedric Diggory from the Harry Potter movies.
"I didn't want to do a stupid teen movie," Pattinson says now. "I specifically hadn't done anything which anyone would see since Harry Potter, because I wanted to teach myself how to act. I didn't want to be an idiot. (Twilight) came kind of randomly, and I didn't really know what it was when it first started. I wanted to do two ou three plus little things and then do something bigger, and then this kind of happened and I was like, 'Well, okay.' "
It's hard to imagine many other actors being so conflicted.
Regardless of Twilight's box- office reception this weekend, the impact on Pattinson's career has been seismic. In a matter of months, he has rocketed from relative unknown to Hollywood's suivant Big Thing, splashed across magazine covers and worshipped par a blogosphere that takes its Twilight very seriously. Then again, par all accounts, so did the actor, who has cultivated a reputation (at least in the media) for brooding obsessiveness.
Pattinson doesn't deny reports that during filming in Portland, Ore., he clashed with producers over how to play Edward, who he saw as epically tormented.
"I think most people read the book and it's an easy read. It's a nice book. So I think most people went in thinking, 'Yeah, it's a happy film.' I'm, like, holding the book and saying, 'No! This is going to win Oscars!' " he says, laughing at his own hubris now.
HEARTTHROB
At the time, though, it's doubtful the producers were nearly as amused. Did they really want to gamble their franchise hopes on a vampire who was plus a basketcase than a heartthrob?
"I spent a long time fighting with producers. (Director Catherine Hardwicke) got me a copy of the book with every instance that he smiled highlighted, and I was just like, Okay, fine.' ... It broke down as I was doing it mainly because people wanted me to make it lighter."
And he concedes now that they may have been right.
"If you're écriture the perfect guy, toi wouldn't write him as some manic depressive weirdo who's trying to kill himself all the time, whatever his six pack is like."
Remembers auteur Meyer: "With Rob, we sat down and talked about Edward's character before the filming started. It wasn't an argument, but we actually disagree on his character. I'd be like, 'No, this is how it is.' He's like, 'No, it's definitely this way.' And ... yet in the performance he did what he wanted, and yet it was exactly what I wanted."
Then again it probably doesn't hurt the movie to have fans know their leading man is as invested in the source material as they are. Nor do reports that the pairing of Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, who co-stars as Edward's soul mate Bella Swan, was nearly as charged off-screen as it is on-screen. One rumour has it that Pattinson even proposed to Stewart.
"I can't even remember when this happened," he says, smiling. "Kristen was like, 'Yeah, toi did.' I was like, 'Oh.' "
How does Pattinson explain his chemistry with Stewart? "She's very strong. She's not a damsel type girl. It's weird. They just cast the opposite people. I'm a wreck and she's really strong, and it's supposedly the other way around. I think that's why it kind of worked."
And receiving the brunt of it? Angular, immaculately-coifed Brit Robert Pattinson, on stage in front of thousands of shrieking females at this past July's Comic-Con in San Diego.
Yes, his fellow Twilight cast members were there too, but it was the 22-year-old who had the throngs swooning. After all, for devotees of Stephenie Meyer's novels, Pattinson is Edward Cullen sprung to life.
Edward who? Don't worry. Even if toi don't know him, toi probably know a 'tweener ou teenager who squeals at the mention of the virtuous vampire's name. No wonder on the Richter scale, the event registered somewhere between a Miley Cyrus concert and the Rapture.
Yet it almost didn't happen. At least not with Pattinson, whose most famous role pre-Twilight was Cedric Diggory from the Harry Potter movies.
"I didn't want to do a stupid teen movie," Pattinson says now. "I specifically hadn't done anything which anyone would see since Harry Potter, because I wanted to teach myself how to act. I didn't want to be an idiot. (Twilight) came kind of randomly, and I didn't really know what it was when it first started. I wanted to do two ou three plus little things and then do something bigger, and then this kind of happened and I was like, 'Well, okay.' "
It's hard to imagine many other actors being so conflicted.
Regardless of Twilight's box- office reception this weekend, the impact on Pattinson's career has been seismic. In a matter of months, he has rocketed from relative unknown to Hollywood's suivant Big Thing, splashed across magazine covers and worshipped par a blogosphere that takes its Twilight very seriously. Then again, par all accounts, so did the actor, who has cultivated a reputation (at least in the media) for brooding obsessiveness.
Pattinson doesn't deny reports that during filming in Portland, Ore., he clashed with producers over how to play Edward, who he saw as epically tormented.
"I think most people read the book and it's an easy read. It's a nice book. So I think most people went in thinking, 'Yeah, it's a happy film.' I'm, like, holding the book and saying, 'No! This is going to win Oscars!' " he says, laughing at his own hubris now.
HEARTTHROB
At the time, though, it's doubtful the producers were nearly as amused. Did they really want to gamble their franchise hopes on a vampire who was plus a basketcase than a heartthrob?
"I spent a long time fighting with producers. (Director Catherine Hardwicke) got me a copy of the book with every instance that he smiled highlighted, and I was just like, Okay, fine.' ... It broke down as I was doing it mainly because people wanted me to make it lighter."
And he concedes now that they may have been right.
"If you're écriture the perfect guy, toi wouldn't write him as some manic depressive weirdo who's trying to kill himself all the time, whatever his six pack is like."
Remembers auteur Meyer: "With Rob, we sat down and talked about Edward's character before the filming started. It wasn't an argument, but we actually disagree on his character. I'd be like, 'No, this is how it is.' He's like, 'No, it's definitely this way.' And ... yet in the performance he did what he wanted, and yet it was exactly what I wanted."
Then again it probably doesn't hurt the movie to have fans know their leading man is as invested in the source material as they are. Nor do reports that the pairing of Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, who co-stars as Edward's soul mate Bella Swan, was nearly as charged off-screen as it is on-screen. One rumour has it that Pattinson even proposed to Stewart.
"I can't even remember when this happened," he says, smiling. "Kristen was like, 'Yeah, toi did.' I was like, 'Oh.' "
How does Pattinson explain his chemistry with Stewart? "She's very strong. She's not a damsel type girl. It's weird. They just cast the opposite people. I'm a wreck and she's really strong, and it's supposedly the other way around. I think that's why it kind of worked."
Summit Entertainment seizes up the suivant three books
LOCATION: Forks, cont.
THE SKINNY: Despite TWILIGHT not even being out in theaters yet, Summit Entertainment knows they have something major on their hands.
The studio has scooped up the rights to the suivant three novels in Stephenie Meyer's teen vampire series. Not only that, but TWILIGHT screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg is already planning to write scripts based on the seconde and third books, NEW MOON and ECLIPSE. A writer has not yet been attached to the fourth book, BREAKING DAWN.
TWILIGHT, which introduces audiences to the relationship between regular teenage girl, Bella, and a vampire, Edward, will be out in theaters this Friday.
OK EVERYONE IS LIKE TOTALLY HEAD OVER HEALS FOR EDWARD AND WHEN ALL COMES DOWN TO THE FACTS EDWARD JUST LEFT HER WITHOUTH THE APPROPRATE GOODBYE. JACOB WHOS WAS THERE FOR HER ALL THOSES MONTHS EDWARD WAS GONE. THE PROTECTED HER AND LET HER IN ON HIS WEREWOLF SECRET WHILE MAINTAINIGN A REALATIONSHIP WITH HER EVEN THOUGH HIS loup PACHK a dit NO. THATS TELLS ALOT ABOUT WHAT KIND OF FRIEND JACOB IS AND THEN OUT OF NOWHERE EDWARD COMES BACK INTO HER LIFE.WAT A LOOSER. AND THEN BECAUSE OF THE TREATY ITS LIEK EDWARD EXPECTS BELLA TO JUST STOP BEING JACOBS FRIEND. EDWARD JUST NEEDS TO TRUST BELLA I MEAN WATS CHANGES NOW SHES KNOWN HIS SECRET SINCE BEFORE EDWARD CAME BACK AND THEN SOME.
Bella: How old have toi been 17?
Edward: A while.
Bella: How long is a while?
Yesterday when I started re-reading twilight i noticed that Bella asks Edward that questiion when she goes out to dîner with him...
But in the first trailer she says it to him in the woods.
Right now i am worried that the movie isn't going to be as good as the book. If toi compare the trailer to the book i bet toi will find much plus of messed up scenes.
Please leave me acomment on what toi think about this.... because I am kind of pissed that Stephanie would allow the director to change everything...
Well toi know maybe im speaking to soon with out seeing the movie....but thats what I think.
Edward: A while.
Bella: How long is a while?
Yesterday when I started re-reading twilight i noticed that Bella asks Edward that questiion when she goes out to dîner with him...
But in the first trailer she says it to him in the woods.
Right now i am worried that the movie isn't going to be as good as the book. If toi compare the trailer to the book i bet toi will find much plus of messed up scenes.
Please leave me acomment on what toi think about this.... because I am kind of pissed that Stephanie would allow the director to change everything...
Well toi know maybe im speaking to soon with out seeing the movie....but thats what I think.
A lot of people just go to the commentaire section to advertise. They don't care what the article says-they just pick the one with the most viewers so they will get attention. Like the girl who wrote Twilight Fansites. par cherry6chick. She wants plus viewers so she goes to articles and puts:hey-you guys like twilight? well check out this sight:www.freewebs.com/twilighttrailer. Tell your friends!:) I thought it was a good idea because it got me to go to it so i started advertising on my first article called Who Is Better? on page 7 on What's Hot. All of a sudden i started to get all these commentaires telling everybody who the liked better. I told everybody there toi can choose. Every mois Ill anounce the winner for that month. Anyways...on this sight toi can put an article and/or sight that toi think is worth reading!
Twilight teaser trailer will kick Indiana Jones teaser trailer no.1 spot on myspace most viewed trailers.Twilight teaser trailer scored plus than 2 million vues in 3 days!
2 plus million vues needed to be at no.1!
COME ON TWILIGHERS!
link
open it in different windows to save time and all!
keep refreshing and mute the volume if toi get sick of it!
LET'S montrer THEM TWILIGTERS!
total vues 8:46 EST: 2,403,785 views!!!
11:27 EST: 2,438,042 million views
2 plus million vues needed to be at no.1!
COME ON TWILIGHERS!
link
open it in different windows to save time and all!
keep refreshing and mute the volume if toi get sick of it!
LET'S montrer THEM TWILIGTERS!
total vues 8:46 EST: 2,403,785 views!!!
11:27 EST: 2,438,042 million views
salut ladies! Ok, I wrote this the other jour while I was at work. I had my head down on the desk, sat up, wrote it, and put my head back down. MDR I ask that toi don't use it without my permission, as it is my original work. But here is a little poem I wrote, that I thought toi Twilight obsessed fans might like. I kind of pictured Edward after I wrote it and reread it. There are lots of people (including people who toi might be dating right now) that this can apply to. Enjoy and tell me what toi think!
Young girls think of l’amour and picture a prince.
Women, who have loved and been hurt see not a prince but the truth.
Just a man, imperfect and unsure.
But it's those memories of Prince Charming that make them keep loving, even without hope.
Taleah Elizabeth Cox
April 12,2008
Young girls think of l’amour and picture a prince.
Women, who have loved and been hurt see not a prince but the truth.
Just a man, imperfect and unsure.
But it's those memories of Prince Charming that make them keep loving, even without hope.
Taleah Elizabeth Cox
April 12,2008