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Stephenie Meyer is the Godfather
I kind of picture Stephenie Meyer as a female Marlon Brando. OK, maybe she doesn’t talk in that Don Corleone voice, but she kind of is the “Godfather,” at least when it comes to vampires and vampire romance. According to this MetroNews story, she receives the shooting schedule for the Twilight films – Summit is now filming “New Moon” – and then visits the set or location when her favorite scenes are being shot. “It’s really cool because she comes up here every once in a while for her favourite scenes. At the beginning of filming, she gives a list of her favourite scenes that she wants to be up here for. You’ve got the best person in the world to ask for advice. So if you have a question, you can just walk on over and ask her,” says Taylor Lautner, who plays Jacob.
So I’m picturing Stephenie sort of holding court, actors flocking to her, creative types on the film asking her for advice. Bowing down before her – the legendary vampire chronicler.
The Volturi are Coming, the Volturi Are Coming
Watch out, Vancouver. The Canadian town known for being home to virtually every single film and TV production under the sun is hosting the Volturi now. The actors playing “vampire royalty” – ha, I scoff at that term – are ready to shoot their interior scenes, according to Hello Magazine. For those of you just getting to know the characters in Stephenie Meyer’s second book in the series, the Volturi are kind of like the mafia of the vampire world. They lay down the law, they uphold the law, they break the law. You know what I mean – they’re in charge and you don’t want to cross them.
Supposedly.
Because let me just use this opportunity to say something that has always struck me as a little odd about the Volturi. We don’t know how they’d really fare in a fight. Sure, they have Jane, played by Dakota Fanning in New Moon, who can inflict bone-crunching pain with her mind. But why are other vamps so scared of the Volturi? Because the coven has been around, skin getting all withery and immortal eyes all glassy, for 3,000 years? Hmm…I’m not convinced the Volturi are really so tough. We all know they never really put up a fight.
What do you think?
Yours in Vampire Preparedness,
Chris
P.S.: As always I welcome any and all news tips at bloodcastnewsnetwork@gmail.com.
Guillermo Del Toro Shows Other Side of Vampires
And on one side of the ring is Stephenie Meyer with her vampires who sparkle and don’t want to kill you and on the other side of the ring is film director Guillermo Del Toro with his vicious bloodsuckers. In this new book series “The Strain” releasing this summer from Harper Collins, he said he plans to show vampires for who they really are. He has said his vampires will be menacing, disgusting and thirsty for blood. The book is described as portraying a battle of “mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets.”
On June 2 vampires no longer sparkle.
Yours in Vampire Preparedness,
Chris
P.S.: As always I welcome any and all news tips at bloodcastnewsnetwork@gmail.com.
