The back story involving the film version of Twilight, due in theaters Dec. 12, is almost as convoluted as the novel itself.
According to Variety, Paramount optioned the rights to the novel when it was first published in 2005 but then allowed the option to expire. An upstart company called Summit Entertainment stepped in and acquired the rights, even though Twilight had sold only about 10,000 copies.
The novel finally caught fire, and now Summit is releasing what many expect to one of the biggest hits of the holiday season.
If you haven’t already seen the trailer on YouTube, Bella is played by Kristen Stewart, best known for Into the Wild, where she played Emile Hirsch’s folk-singer love interest. Edward, meanwhile, is played by Robert Pattinson, who was featured as the swoon-worthy Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
The most promising news of all: The film is directed by McAllen-born, UT-educated Catherine Hardwicke (thirteen, Lords of Dogtown).
Hardwicke was all wrong for the inert and bloodless The Nativity Story — she’s much craftier at tales of out-of-control teenagers, not pious ones. But she’s got a terrific visual sensibility (she got her start as a production designer on movies like Vanilla Sky and Three Kings) that should bring Twilight to vivid life.
— Christopher Kelly
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