Every year needs at least one vampire movie, and for 2008, that movie is “Twilight” from Summit Entertainment.
Based on the first installment of Stephenie Meyer’s popular young-adult novels, the movie is a high-school-romance-vampire tale. Kristen Stewart plays a girl who moves to a small town in Washington state to live with her father.
Once there, she’s drawn to a mysterious classmate named Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), who turns out to be a vampire. In fact, the entire Cullen family are all creatures of the night.
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Joining the cast (as vampires!) are Peter Facinelli (”Riding In Cars with Boys,” “Damages”), Elizabeth Reaser (Pictured, “The Family Stone”), Jackson Rathbone (”The O.C”), Nikki Reed (”Lords of Dogtown”), Ashley Greene (”Shark”), and Kellan Lutz (”The Comeback”).
Catherine Hardwicke will direct the movie based on a script by Melissa Rosenberg. It’s scheduled to go into production this month for a late 2008 release, ahead of a potential actor’s strike, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Other upcoming Summit projects include “The Brothers Bloom” and the martial arts movie, “Never Back Down.”
I’m most excited about the casting of Elizabeth Reaser. Sure, she was in “The Family Stone,” but you might know her better as Ava from “Grey’s Anatomy.”
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