Jacob and his Wolfpack?
UPDATE: According to Stephenie Meyer’s website the wolfpack is officially confirmed, everyone except for Emily. There is no word about her yet, but hopefully soon. Here is the announcement from Stephenie’s site.
Los Angeles, CA — March 23, 2009 — Summit Entertainment announced today that Native American/First Nation actors Chaske Spencer, Bronson Pelletier, Alex Meraz, Kiowa Gordon and Tyson Houseman have signed on to star as the members of the wolf pack in THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON. In the film, the wolf pack defends humans against vampires although they have a tribal history intricately entwined with Edward Cullen and his family. The wolf pack members will join Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and fellow wolf pack member Taylor Lautner in the film directed by Chris Weitz which will be released domestically November 20, 2009.
In THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON, Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) is devastated by the abrupt departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) but her spirit is rekindled by her growing friendship with the irresistible Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). Suddenly she finds herself drawn into the world of the werewolves, ancestral enemies of the vampires, and finds her loyalties tested.
Each member of the wolf pack is of Native decent. Spencer is Lakota (Sioux), Pelletier is Cree-Metis, Meraz is Purepecha (Tarasco), Gordon is Hualapai, and Houseman, who was discovered at an open casting call, is Cree. Casting of the wolf pack was overseen by award-winning casting director Rene Haynes who is well-known for her work on Native projects ranging from DANCES WITH WOLVES to BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE.
The action-packed, modern day vampire love story and blockbuster success of the first film in the series entitled TWILIGHT was released in theatres on November 21, 2008 grossing $60.9 million domestically during its first weekend. To date the film has grossed nearly $380 million worldwide. TWILIGHT was released on DVD, Blu-ray and VOD this past Saturday, March 21st and sold over 3 million DVD units in its first day of release making it one of the top five best first day DVD releases over the past two years.
About Summit Entertainment LLC:
Summit Entertainment is a worldwide theatrical motion picture development, financing, production and distribution studio. The studio handles all aspects of marketing and distribution for both its own internally developed motion pictures as well as acquired pictures. Summit Entertainment, LLC also represents international sales for both its own slate and third party product. Summit Entertainment, LLC plans to release 10 to 12 films annually.
Filming for New Moon starts next week and there is still no confirmation of who will play Sam, Seth or the rest of Jacob’s werewolf pack. However, recently Chris Weitz was spotted taking Taylor Lautner and a group of male actors out to lunch in Vancouver. The actors were Bronson Pelletier; who was said to be joining the cast when it was posted on his agents website, Tyson Houseman; who we don’t know much about but is famous for theatre work, and lastly Alex Meraz; who is another fighter like Taylor Lautner. There is no confirmation from Summit about any of them but it seems fairly likely since it has been confirmed on their agents websites.
UPDATE: There is more evidence floating around that this is the wolf cast and also who is playing Emily and the rest of the cast. This is the best place for pics and info that I have found. I think that Sam is perfect!! Again none of this is confirmed by Summit.
Personally I think that Bronson and Tyson look like Seth and Alex looks like Paul. I am excited to see how it all turns out. Here are some pictures of Taylor and his wolf pack: Wolf pack, Tyson Houseman, Alex Meraz
