No Muse for Eclipse Soundtrack?
The band Muse is just as much a part of the the Twilight as saga as vampires and werewolves. Their song “Super Massive Black Hole” set the perfect mood for a game of vampire baseball. Stephenie Meyer, the author of the Twilight Saga, has been a big Muse fan for years and use to listen to their music as she wrote the Twilight books. Muse was Stephenie Meyer’s muse. So out of any band, we would expect Muse to be a part of the Eclipse soundtrack. In fact a few months ago the band even hinted at a song they had for the movie. However, now we are being told that Muse will not appear on the soundtrack.
It was only days after the release of New Moon that Muse started to talk about being a part of the Eclipse soundtrack, so it was a huge shock to even them to learn that they would not be on the soundtrack for the movie. According to Muse band member Howard, the order came from the Summit heads and not from the creative department involved in Eclipse. Especially considering the bands relationships with David Slade and Stephenie Meyer. David Slade created quite a few of the bands music videos and has been working with the guys for years. And as we mentioned before Stephenie Meyer has been a fan of Muse for years, in fact their is a picture of the Stephenie Meyer with the band on their official website.
It seems like the corporate heads at Summit in charge of Eclipse have been making quite a few changes lately and Muse is not the only people to get the shaft. Recently Summit also fired Eclipse director Art Jones and replaced him with Nancy Richardson, the original editor for Twilight directed by Catherine Hardwicke. It seems that Summit feels that David Slade’s version of Eclipse is “very good” but that it needs a ’strong edit” Hmm, what does that mean exactly? David Slade is known for his darker more edgy movies and has even been tweeting on production stating that he needed to add “more EDWARD”. Sounds like David Slade still has a lot of work left to do before release in June. I am very intrigued about the finished product and i can’t wait to see how it all turns out!
How do you feel about no Muse in Eclipse? Do you think having Nancy Richardson will make Eclipse better or worse then New Moon? Share your opinions with us!
Breaking Dawn Controversy
January 27, 2010 by Jessica
Filed under breaking dawn
The people at Summit Entertainment certainly know how to torture us, give us little to no information about filming for Breaking Dawn! Breaking is the final book in the Twilight Saga and it just so happens to be the book where all of our burning questions get answered, so of course we are anxiously awaiting any information about the filming of the movie. However Summit has been very vague on Twilight details, in fact even the details that they are giving us is on shaky ground.
A couple weeks ago rumors were swirling that author Stephenie Meyer was the hold-up for the movie because she couldn’t decide if making two movies was a good idea. E! Online is spreading this story:
It seems that series mastermind Stephenie Meyer and Summit have slightly different agendas on that one…
“Stephenie is calling the shots,” our mole tells us, “and she still can’t decide whether or not [making
two movies] is the right thing to do creatively.”“Both sides have very different agendas,” ‘fesses our insider.
See, here’s the breakdown…
Stephenie doesn’t need the money, so what does she care? It’s double the work to split this film up.
However Stephenie Meyer was quick to put a lid on this rumor by posting this message on her own site:
Just a quick note on the subject of the Breaking Dawn film: there is no drama over whether the book should be one movie or two. My personal feeling is that it would be very difficult to cram the whole story into one movie (as I’ve said in many interviews previous to this), but if a great way of doing that surfaces, I’m all for it. Two or one, whichever way fits the story best is fine by me, and everyone I’ve spoken with at Summit seems to feel the same way. We’re all excited to move forward on this, and we are slowly and surely getting there. I know people are anxious for news, and so sometimes gossip gets fabricated to stir things up, but there’s no basis to this particular story.
I don’t know about you but I think I would believe Stephenie on this one because just like she said, people are so anxious for any news that rumors are swirling. So what do we know so far? New Moon is being released on March 20th and Eclipse is coming in June, as far as Breaking Dawn, I guess we will have to keep waiting.
Do you have any news about Breaking Dawn? Don’t hold back on us! Share it below!
Happy Birthday Stephenie Meyer!!
December 24, 2009 by Jessica
Filed under Announcements, Twilight
Stephenie Meyer is the wonderful women that first brought us into the world of Twilight. Today we want to celebrate her and wish her the Best Birthday Ever!!
What started out as a dream has turned into a best selling book series and now record breaking movies. Stephenie Meyer has awakened a spark in all of us that we forgot was there, inviting us to explore a side of vampires never explored before. Twilight is an original vampire story where vampires sparkle and prefer a “vegetarian” diet. The romance between Bella and Edward is similar to classic relationships such as Romeo and Juliet, but somehow it also reminds us all of our first love. Stephenie Meyer has got us all reading again, We will forever be thankful to her!
Stephenie, Twilight is exactly our brand of heroin. Have a wonderful Birthday!!
New Moon Released with New Cover
Jacob fans everywhere, prepare to be amazed. New Moon has been re-released with a new cover that is going to make you want to swoon. Just like when they re-did the Twilight cover, this cover features the cast of New Moon as Bella and Jacob, and it is fantastic. EW.com is asking fansites not to post the whole image but to link back to their site instead so I will respect their wishes, but click this link and head over to EW and check it out for yourself.
Like I said the cover is brilliant, but that is just my opinion, what do you think? Are you going to buy a new copy just to have the free poster?
All About Stephenie Meyer
Eight years later, Meyer had a dream that changed her life and the way she would live forever…once again, she just wasn’t quite aware yet. In the dream, she had dreamt of an immortal god-looking vampire who was in love with a normal girl. Even though the vampire was in love with her, he still had to fight his never-ending thirst. Stephenie quickly jotted down her dream while her family was still sleeping. What she also didn’t quite know yet, is that she would want to get her book published…and eventually that dream, would end up being chapter thirteen in her best-selling book.
Eventually, Stephenie came to the conclusion that it wasn’t fair to keep these characters thats she loved so much to herself. She thought it only fair to share with others, and these others would hopefully fall in love with the characters too. And no doubt that they did in the end.
So, while juggling her laptop and young kids–all under the age of five–she was able to put together a novel in three months. Now, however, Stephenie was not familiar with the publishing industry. Meyer had absolutely no clue that she probably needed an agent, and needed to contact publishers, and get accounts for publisher searching, and even planning to do all these other things after the book is published…that is if anyone were to read it. She almost quit right then and there…but because if the support of her older sister Emily–who also is honored with a name in the book–she was able to pocker herself up and throw her book out there.
Stephenie say now that the main character, Bella Swan, is mainly the daughter she never had. Now, even this is true, Meyer also says that she is nothing like the character she wrote. She said that she was never that mature, and always fulfilled her role as the youngest child. Stephenie believes that since growing up with many siblings, that it would be interesting to write about something that was completely un-familiar to her.
The picture on the first book was girls hands holding a read apple. They chose this because it talks about the forbidden fruit and what happens when you eat it. So it makes since for the vampire character to have taken the apple, Bella, and bitten out of it, fell in love with her, therefore cursing him and her.
Stephenie won the following awards:
Publishers Weekly Best Book Of The Year,
New York Times Editors Choice,
Amazon.com Best Book Of The Decade So Far,
The American Library Association Top Ten Books For Young Adults,
Teen People Hot List Pick.
The book was also translated into 20 different languages and she became a known author in 31 different countries.
Stephenie then wrote the follow-up novels: ‘New Moon,’ ‘Eclipse,’ and, ‘Breaking Dawn’
The name for ‘New Moon’ was chosen because one of the characters was supposedly the moon before, but then that character left. So, a new character came into play and was the New Moon. They chose, ‘New Moon,’ because that’s how the character Bella describes the feeling in the book. The cover of ‘New Moon’ is a white rose with red blood. This is chosen because in the beginning of the book, Bella’s at a party and get’s flung into a table with white roses when she is bleeding, so that why the white rose with blood.
The name for ‘Eclipse’ was chosen because the character that originally left was back. Now, Bella is thinking on the new character as the sun, because he cannot be the moon. And the moon is more important to her. So that represents how he will always be next best. The newer character actually said, “I may bring light and heat, but I can’t fight an eclipse.” They chose the broken red string on the front of the book because of the feeling of Bella. She feels she trying to be the old character’s and the new character’s Bella, but soon finds she can’t be both and she breaks that string.
The name for ‘Breaking Dawn’ was chosen because vampire can’t be seen in sunlight. So, tbey had to ‘break dawn’ by beating it. Getting out of it’s way before the sun comes up. Mainly, how that relates to the book is because they all have these difficulties to get figured out, and they have to get them all before the ‘dawn rises,’ and they’re dead. The white king on the chess board being stalked by a red chess, represents that before you were helpless, but now that you’re a king you can defend yourself.
These four books claimed the top four slots in the year-end bestseller list. This honor is a first for any author.
Stephenie Meyer later released that even thought she closed the, ‘Twilight’ series, she wasn’t quite done with the, ‘Twilight’ world. She would be writing, ‘Midnight Sun,’ which is the story of, ‘Twilight’ told from another character’s point of view. Her draft was released illegally on the Internet, and she wanted to give up. But because of the help of her sister Emily, she was able to continue writing. She is still writing the book as we speak.
Stephenie Meyer said that four classic books gave each of hers their own unique inspiration:
‘Pride and Prejudice’ inspired ‘Twilight,’
‘Romeo and Juliet’ inspired ‘New Moon,’
‘Wuthering Heights’ inspired ‘Eclipse,’
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ inspired ‘Breaking Dawn.’
Summit Entertainment produced a film version of ‘Twilight’ in November 2008. Stephenie Meyer was offered a role in ‘Twilight,’ but not wanting to mess any of it up, she took a non-talking role as a cusotmer in a diner. The thing is, about every studio in Hollywood had turned it down…but the film ended up making 350-million-dollars worldwide.
Now, let’s talk about all the money Mrs. Meyer has gotten from the Twi-world. Stephenie Meyer made $750,000 dollars on her first three books, $400,000 on that last book, $5,000,000 from the movie ‘Twilight,’ and she has an estimated $15,000,000 coming in from the last three movies. Now when we add that all together we come up with the fact that: Stephenie Meyer will make $21,150,000 dollars from the Twi-world when it’s over. That’s enough to pay off her mini-van!
Congratulations Class of 09
June 25, 2009 by Jessica
Filed under Rob Pattinson, Twilight, Videos
School is ending and summer is on a roll which means there is a whole new batch of graduates ready to make their mark on the world. So, all of us here at Twilight BLOGS want to Congratulate all of the graduates, best of luck in the future!!
And of course we would not want to send our Graduates into the world alone, and what better to send with them than a little Twilight. MTV is having a Graduation week and to celebrate they are posting so great and even hilarious videos about their “Class of 09″. Keep on eye out for your Twilight stars!!!
What did you think of Stephenie’s Hair?
Check out these Great Milestones of 2009
Rob Pattinson Picture Perfect? Kristen The Class Klutz? Check it out:
Great Twilight Interview
Here is an incredible and funny interview with Kristen Stewart, Rob Pattinson, and Stephenie Meyer. It has some unscripted questions and some funny answers.
Watch below!!
Vampires Sparkle Better in New Moon
Stephenie Meyer’s vampires are different than other other vampires in many ways, but the most obvious is that Stephenie’s vampires sparkles. In the movie version of Twilight Edward reveals this to Bella in the bug Meadow scene, but unfortunately it fell flat of many book fans expectations. However in a recent interview with Peter Facinelli who played Carlisle in the move, Peter revealed a “sparkly secret”. Here is what the interview has to say:
“He talked to us about the script for New Moon and said he was happy with it. He mentioned his concerns at a man directing a story told from a woman’s (Bella’s) viewpoint, but how he was then totally reassured after meeting Chris Weitz the director. My favorite bit of insiders gossip that he gave us was one of the stage directions. In the New Moon script it says ‘the sunlight catches Edward’s skin and we see him sparkle’ ,it then says in brackets underneath (BUT BETTER THAN IN TWILIGHT) I guess they really are trying to improve the special effects!”
Stephenie Meyer’s in Vogue
Without Stephenie Meyer’s there would be no Twilight or the rest of the Twilight series, so anyway that we can show her appreciation we do it. This Vogue article is a wonderful article about Stephenie, her life, and how Twilight came to be.
Stephenie is amazing how she juggles all she has to do and still manages to write such wonderful books. She is a real down to earth and sweet women.
To read all about her and her family check it out here!
More What to Read After Twilight
It is so hard to find a book to read after you have read something as good as the Twilight series, I mean nothing else quite compares. Well, we can scour through the bookstore shelves, or we can take word from Stephenie Meyer herself.
On her website main page Stephenie Meyer suggests the book The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester. She said she loved it and “smiled through the whole thing (except when she cried).” She also said she was reading it to her kids and that her Mom was reading it as well.
I just started reading it and so far it is really good, a very interesting and different kind of book. Read it for yourself and let me know what you thought.
Stephenie’s Page