30 Things You Must Know About ‘Twilight’
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
11. Meyer’s unfinished fifth book, Midnight Sun, mirrors Twilight from Edward’s perspective. She stopped writing it when a draft of the manuscript was leaked online. She tells fans on her site, “I feel too sad about what has happened to continue working … and so it is on hold indefinitely.”
12. Meyer, a Brigham Young English Literature major, sent out 15 Twilight query letters to agents. She received five no replies, nine rejections and one request to see it. “A month later I had an agent; another month later I had a three-book deal.”
13. The Twilight title is inconsistent internationally. Some of the other titles used are: Until Dawn (Germany), Temptation (Finland) and Fascination (France).
14. In Japan they split the novel into three books, The Boy Whom I Love is a Vampire, Blood Tastes Sadness and The Vampire Family in the Darkness.
15. When the filmmakers came calling, she offered a list of demands -- all the rules of her vampire world must remain in place, no fangs, no coffins, the bloodsuckers sparkle in the sunlight, the Cullens must exist by their present names and in their present forms and characters can only be killed off if they died in the book.
16. She also requested that the line “So the lion fell in love with the lamb,” not be changed. “That line is actually tattooed on people’s bodies — which I don’t approve of, by the way — but I said, you know, if you take that one and change it, that’s a potential backlash situation.”
17. Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown and The Nativity director Catherine Hardwicke was quickly tabbed to direct. She says her goal was “capture that feeling: how it feels to be in love for the first time, and loving somebody so much that you’d literally be willing to turn into a vampire.”
18. Hardwicke knew Bella required an actress with “a lot of depth” and “a lot of soul” and she found it in Panic Room star Kristen Stewart. “What I’ve seen of Kristen’s work, she is one of the few actresses of her age that has had the opportunity to do that and has shown us that she can.”
19. Thousands of actors tried out for the part of Edward via tapes and auditions, but it was Robert Pattinson who landed the role with a kiss. Says Hardwicke: “We did the kissing scene on the bed…when I saw Rob and Kristen there [and] the electricity, I was like, ‘Ohhhh, this could be good!”
20. The casting caused controversy among fans, but the actors keep taking it in stride. “I read the book, I can’t know any less than they know about her,” Stewart says while Pattinson admits he paid attention to the fan site complaints at first, “I was expecting it…I agree with them.”
KEEP READING: Meet the Cullens