'Twilight' Sneak Peek To Premiere At International Rome Film Festival.

Die-hard fans of the Twilight book series are as familiar with the Internet as they are the written page, spending huge amounts of time on sites such as Twilight Lexicon, TwilightMoms and, of course, MTV News.
Now, they might want to start exploring pages like Priceline, Expedia and Travelocity as well.
Summit Entertainment has confirmed to MTV News that 15 minutes of the upcoming Twilight film will screen at the International Rome Film Festival, which runs from October 22 to 31, nearly a month before the movie opens here in the United States. According to the film festival's site, the screening will mark the world premiere of the segment, which will be accompanied by backstage footage as well.
The festival's site also explains in broken English that the event includes the public encounter with the director and the film's stars, plus a reading of passages from the new book by Stephenie Meyer.
The announcement is unusual for several reasons, the most obvious being a major film festival's willingness to show a movie's extended clip alongside full screenings of completed films such as The Duchess and Appaloosa. It speaks to the fever-pitch excitement that has been steadily escalating all year over the Twilight movie, as does the presence of the series' author, reading passages from Breaking Dawn at a film festival.
But what seems strange to your typical film-festival attendee will undoubtedly elicit screams of joy from loyal Twilighters, who will likely spend the next few days flooding travel Web sites with searches for cheap flights to Rome. As the startled attendees of Comic-Con discovered just a few months ago, once you've invited those high-energy Twilighters to the party, you'd better pack some earplugs.

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'Twilight' Tuesday: Stars Answer More Of Fans' Burning Questions ... Like What It's Like To Kiss Robert Pattinson.

Ever dream of bumping into Kellan Lutz at Costco while he's buying a bulk bag of Runts? Grabbing a "Can't Hardly Wait" DVD at the store, only to find Peter Facinelli reaching for the same one? What about cornering Robert Pattinson in an elevator, just as it gets stuck between floors?
Luckily for you, MTV News is once again saving you the messiness of all that uneasy eye contact, "OME!" shrieks and possible restraining orders. The movie comes out next month (Wow! I can't believe I just wrote that!), and some of our most popular Twilight Tuesdays have been the first and second times we had the stars answer fan questions.
So, without further ado, we hereby present the third entry in our Twilight Stars Answer Fans' Burning Questions series. Feel free to keep submitting your wildest queries, and look below for all you've ever wanted to know about Anna Kendrick's lung capacity, Lutz's love of velour, and RPattz's promise to suck on your neck. (Head over to the MTV Movies blog for news on special fan events leading up to the Twilight premiere.)

Q: "What's it like kissing the most gorgeous man alive, Robert Pattinson?" - Ceejay
Kristen Stewart (Bella Swan): His teeth are pretty sharp. It's great. I like it. It's cool.
MTV: People are also debating whether Edward and Bella will French kiss.
Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen): It's more of a Chilean kiss.
Stewart: What's that?
Pattinson: That just wasn't funny. Whenever we kiss, I just try to kill her all the time.
Stewart: And I love that. She's a total sadomasochist, if you think about it.
Pattinson: And I'm just gay.
Stewart: Or impotent.
Q: "Kellan Lutz likes Runts. Do you have a favorite candy?" - Liz
Cam Gigandet (James): It changes a lot, because I do something I shouldn't do: I will lock in on a candy, and I will eat it until I can never have it again. I don't know why. I do love cookie dough more than anything in the world, but that's not really a candy. I would probably say, right now, it's Heath bars. No, Skor. Skor bars! That's it for sure.
MTV: Well, Mike Welch was sent thousands of socks after he made a comment about how he needed them. Are you ready for thousands of Skor bars to come your way?
Gigandet: Hmmm ... I love Lamborghinis. [Laughs.] I love them, I really do.
Q: "If you had a choice to play any character (gender aside), who would it be?" - Bob
Kellan Lutz (Emmett Cullen): I'd play Rosalie. She's just so feisty. And you know, to think about the gender thing, playing a female would be quite fun. It would be a stretch for an actor who is male, so yeah, I would enjoy playing your role.
Nikki Reed (Rosalie Hale): Well, thanks, babe.
Lutz: And she has a hot outfit. I'm wearing velour, by the way, so I doubt anyone said Emmett.
Reed: My monkey man! I think I would play Alice. There's something about Alice that's just [intriguing]. I'm sure a lot of other people feel this too. Like her psychic abilities ... and that she was in a mental hospital. They checked her into a mental hospital before she became a vampire because she could see the future, and so they thought she was crazy.
Q: "Do you have the lung capacity to speak as fast, for as long, as Jessica? Because I don't." - Evangeline Annie Van Holzen
Anna Kendrick (Jessica Stanley): It was a cake walk after Rocket Science! I remember Stephenie Meyer [being on set] the day that I was doing that big speech about the Cullens. It was just a lot of dialogue. ... She is quite a chatterbox, but it wasn't too bad, because it all seemed to make sense and come from this really sweet, desperate place.
Q: "Are you aware that you're being stalked?" - Serena
Peter Facinelli (Carlisle Cullen): Am I? Yes, and I wish you would take the tent down from the front of my house — now. That's kind of rude! No, I had no idea.
Q: "If there were such a thing as vampires, would you want to be turned? - Kristin
Christian Serratos (Angela Weber): I don't know. I probably would, just out of pure curiosity.
MTV: Would you want to be frozen now or later on in life?
Serratos: There's a lot of thought that's going to go into me becoming a vampire. I'd probably wait — no, why not? If I'm going to do something crazy, I'm going to do it now. I'd become a vampire right now.
Q: "If you could describe yourself in three words, what would they be?" - Em
Ashley Greene (Alice Cullen): I would like to think that I'm kind of chipper, upbeat and fun.
Jackson Rathbone (Jasper Hale): Um ... I'm a loner who loves company.
Greene: [Laughs.] He's a weirdo, basically.
Q: Michael, how does working on a production like "Twilight" compare to the work you've done in the past? - Ann
Michael Welch (Mike Newton): Well, I started out my career in television, just doing different guest spots. [I] started out with sitcoms. Actually, my first role that I got was as Young Niles on "Frasier," because when I was younger, I was always doing impressions. That's how I broke into acting to begin with. That allowed me to break into the sitcom world, and then from there I made the transition into dramas and then got lucky enough to be on a show called "Joan of Arcadia," which was on for two years. Since then, I've been doing independent movies that probably will never come out, most of them. And then all of the sudden, this "Twilight" just came out of nowhere! It's the biggest thing I've ever been a part of, man. It's so exciting.
Q: "Robert, will you suck my blood out?" - Alley
Pattinson: Yes. Right now? Do they give their addresses and stuff?
MTV: They give their names, and I am sure if you click on MTV.com, you could e-mail any of them.
Pattinson: "Will you suck my blood out?" Is that, like, a worried question? Or is it kind of a desiring question? I won't if you don't want me to.

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'Twilight' Tuesday: Your Questions Uncover Robert Pattinson's Hip-Hop Dreams And More.

The good news is that we're only a few weeks away from the November 21 release of Twilight — the bad news, folks, is that also means there are only a handful of Twilight Tuesdays left.
And since the greatest fireworks shows always end with a big bang, this week is a good one. First off, be sure to head over to the Movies Blog for a major announcement about how you can join Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Catherine Hardwicke at an exclusive MTV Twilight event. Then, take a look below for our final installment in the Twilight Stars Answer Fans' Burning Questions series.
During the past year, some of our most popular Twilight Tuesdays have featured parts one, two and three in the series, as we brought the questions you submitted straight to the stars.
Now, for the final time (well, before the sequels, anyway), read on to learn about RPattz's desire to join the Wu-Tang Clan, Ashley's desire to kick Barbie's butt and the shocking truth about which castmember runs like a mountain goat.
Q: "If 'Twilight' is a hit, what would be the coolest thing about being in a blockbuster?" - Puppy Love
Ashley Greene (Alice Cullen): I want an action figure. An action figure would be really, really cool.
MTV: Are there any plans? Have you heard anything?
Greene: There's been talk. Hopefully, [the film will] do well enough that all that stuff can come out, and they'll have posters and action figures and everything. [To Jackson] Would you want an action figure?
Jackson Rathbone (Jasper Hale): Sure, why not?
MTV: What would you do with your action figure once you got it?
Greene: I would put it up on a pedestal, with stuff around it. The funny thing is if they came out with an action figure — they did such a good job at making us look the part — that my action figure wouldn't even really look like me as a person. But it would be cool to have it, as a character.
MTV: You could have her hang out with Barbie.
Greene: No, it would kick Barbie's butt. It would not be like Barbie.
Q: "What can you tell us about Robert's music?" - Alice
Kellan Lutz (Emmett Cullen): Actually, we would go out a lot in Oregon when we were shooting. There was a little karaoke place, a bar next to the hotel where we were staying at. We would go there every Thursday, and he would just play and rock out. He is an amazing artist.
MTV: Robert has two songs on the soundtrack. Could you tell us anything about the lyrics?
Lutz: No, I could not! Because that is his passion, that is his baby. He told me, he was like, "Do not!" He would come to our house and he would play for some of our friends, and when we were all hanging out he said [in a bad RPattz voice]: "Do not repeat these!" That was a terrible Rob impersonation, by the way.
Q: "There's a lot of stunt work. Who is the worst at it?" - Wolf23
Nikki Reed (Rosalie Hale): I could tell you immediately, but I don't know if that's, like, the nicest thing to say.
Lutz: What?
Reed: He's asking, "Who would you say is the least athletic?" We'll have the same answer.
Lutz: Let's hear yours — go ahead.
Reed: No, let's say, "One, two, three," and then say it.
Reed: One, two, three ...
Lutz and Reed: Rob.
Lutz: Yes! Awesome.
Reed: Rob is the least athletic person.
Lutz: But he runs cute! His running is cute — and I rarely ever say "cute" as a word.
Reed: He runs like a mountain goat.
Lutz: They'll tell me, Emmett, to run in front of him to block him out, so he looks cool.
Q: "Team Edward, Team Jacob or Team Switzerland?" - Andreanna
Taylor Lautner (Jacob Black): Um ... Team Switzerland?
MTV: Do you know what that question means? Could you explain it? [Editor's note: This question was asked before Lautner began shooting the film, many months ago.]
Lautner: I don't. [Laughs.]
MTV: Well, the fans divide themselves into whether they think Bella should go with Edward, Jacob or Switzerland — which means in between, since Switzerland is a neutral country.
Lautner: OK, gotcha. That makes more sense Considering that I'm Jacob, I definitely would have to say Team Jacob all the way.
MTV: I love that you heard the Team Jacob option and still went with Switzerland, even though you're Jacob.
Lautner: Exactly. [Laughs.] I just thought it sounded interesting.
Q: "Cam, do you and Robert stay in character and hate each other between takes?" - Yasmine
Cam Gigandet (James): Very much. [Laughs.] No, not at all. No, definitely not.
MTV: What would you guys talk about between takes, before you had to turn it on again and start slamming each other in the face?
Gigandet: We would spend a lot of our time talking about our work and the scene and any ideas we had — that was how we spent most of the in-between time at work. If we went to dinner or anything, it would be about our lives, I guess. What do friends talk about?
Q: "Kristen, is there a Bella moment that reminds you of yourself in real life?" - Ken
Kristen Stewart (Bella Swan): I think going into high school for the first day. The line "suffer-in-silence type" — some people get the wrong idea if you're quiet and you're just not the most gregarious person. [They think] that you're self-involved, rude, possibly, sometimes frigid. I get that a lot from people that don't know me, like online. All you guys think that I don't smile ever. It's not true. I do smile sometimes. But walking into high school, for sure, is overwhelming. I'm not the type of person to just stroll in and be like, "Hey, everybody! How are ya?" So, I could relate to that.
Q: "If you could play any other "Twilight" character, who would it be and why? - Amal
Christian Serratos (Angela Weber): Oh, jeez, that's such a hard question. I'd probably do one of the bad vampires — not necessarily in "Twilight," but in the entire series. Maybe even James or Victoria. [I'd want to] play kind of another character, kind of a badass.
Q: "Rob, do you like Arctic Monkeys?" - Jen Elias
Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen): Yeah, I do kind of like them, actually. Not that much, but I like some of their songs.
MTV: What's your favorite song by them?
Pattinson: I don't know them that well ... probably their first one. What was their first song called? [Editor's note: We think Rob is referring to "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor."] I've completely forgotten what it's called. They're all right.
MTV: Who is your favorite band?
Pattinson: At the moment, I've really gotten into hip-hop again recently. I'm reliving my childhood. I've been listening to a lot of Wu-Tang Clan. I always wanted to be a rapper when I was younger. That's always what I wanted to be before I started acting — that's what I wanted to do, was be a rapper. I didn't have the right physicality about it — I'm not very threatening.

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Exclusive Interview: Taylor Lautner, Rachelle Lefevre, and Edi Gathegi of 'Twilight' Part 1.

Soon, everyone in the world will know their names and faces, but as of right now, Taylor Lautner, Rachelle Lefevre and Edi Gathegi are experiencing the serenity of the calm before the storm. Taylor Lautner, probably the most soon-to-be-famous of them all, plays Jacob Black, Bella Swan's (Kristen Stewart) best friend in the Twilight series. There are still thousands of teen girls who will remain on Team Jacob despite the recent mania over Robert Pattinson, who plays Bella's romantic interest Edward Cullen. Rachelle Lefevre and Edi Gathegi will have a slightly more difficult job winning over audiences, as they play the villains Victoria and Laurent who will threaten the livelihood of our central couple.

BuddyTV recently sat down to talk to the three actors about their experience with Twilight. In part 1 of our interview, they discuss the cast dynamics, working with Catherine Hardwicke, their experiences with the books and they even give all the guys out there some dating advice. You can listen to the interview or just read the transcript below. I recommend listening – there were way too many funny moments with these three who are all clearly charming and talented.

The age of the cast is so varied. Did you guys find yourselves migrating to people your own age or was it very much like an ensemble?

Rachelle Lefevre: No, it was really ensemble.
Edi Gathegi: For the most part we're all sort of the same age.
Rachelle Lefevre: Give or take a few years.
Edi Gathegi: I mean, you've got him (points to Taylor), who's two times eight but he's so impressive that I would hang out with him and I wouldn't feel like I was hanging out with a kid.
Rachelle Lefevre: Peter, who plays the dad, is like 30-something. I mean, like really young. We were all just able to hang out together. We didn't feel so much of an age difference.
Taylor Lautner: I was kinda nervous about it at first. When I was on the plane flying out there, I was like How's this going to be? But it was great. Everybody was so fun to work with.

You were nervous being young?

Taylor Lautner: I was a little nervous being young, but it turned out awesome. The cast is so nice and fun.
Edi Gathegi: I don't know how you did it. When I was 16… so much pressure.
Rachelle Lefevre: Dude, I totally couldn't have done a movie like this when I was 16. Oh my God.

It seemed interesting because when they cast you, Taylor in particular, there's an expectation of what you're going to turn into in subsequent books, assuming they film the next ones. Was that part of the audition process? Did you guys talk about that?

Taylor Lautner: The only thing is that they needed sides for me to read, so they used the beach scene from the movie, from the script, and then I had two other scenes and they literally just pulled quotes from New Moon and Eclipse and made them sides. So I actually got to do a couple scenes from New Moon and Eclipse with Kristen. It was kind of fun. It was a little taste.

How are you going to grow a couple feet? Jacob is supposed to be very very tall.

Rachelle Lefevre: He going to stand on a lot of apple boxes.
(Laughter)
Taylor Lautner: I wish we had Catherine Hardwicke here to explain that one to you. But we'll see. I'm doing the best I can.
Rachelle Lefevre: We feed him 8 times a day.
Taylor Lautner: Peter Facinelli said that I was going to use Tom Cruise's stilts. We'll see what Catherine has under her sleeves. She's usually very creative.

How was it working with Catherine Hardwicke? She has such a distinct style. How was watching that come to life?

Edi Gathegi: Well, for my part, I knew that this was a director I wanted to work with in my audition because she sort of had this energy, this eagerness to get work done, very enthusiastic and optimistic and that's something you want your director to have. It's that sort of energy that brings great performances out of young actors who are operating on a more energetic level. She actually has that energetic level so she works well with young people and you know that from her previous work like Lords of Dogtown and Thirteen. She has a great history with younger actors. I think that's one of the unique things she brings as well as her design background. She has a great eye. An eye for space and action. She's talented.

A question for all three of you regarding the phenomenon that is Twilight: It's so huge with the book series and whatnot so I wondered how many of you, prior to being cast, were fanatics or followers of the series? Were you big fans prior to being cast?

Taylor Lautner: I actually had no idea what Twilight was. I heard that it was a book series. I'd never seen a book.

Like any book?

(laughter)
Rachelle Lefevre: I was going to say something but then I was like Do I let that slide?” We take care of each other and so I was thinking I'll just let it go maybe.
Taylor Lautner: That too.
Rachelle Lefevre: He can read and write people.
Taylor Lautner: Sorry, I was referring to the Twilight series. I'd never seen a Twilight series book before, in my life. As soon as I was cast, that was when I found out how big this was and what the potential was. I was so excited to be a part of it. I was like wow. Originally I was just excited to work with Catherine Hardwicke and I did a chemistry read with Kristen Stewart and so I was excited to work with them. But then when I found out how much of a phenomenon this was, it was crazy for me.

It's probably better too because casting has been everything with the fans of this book and if you had gone in think they're going to hate me, I can imagine that would have been a little bit more petrifying.

Taylor Lautner: Yeah, it would have been a little bit stressful.

What about Rachelle and Edi, were you fans of the series prior to being involved in the movie or was it like Taylor?

Rachelle Lefevre: I read Twilight right before my audition. So I had heard of the books but hadn't read them. As soon as I read Twilight, I went into the audition – I didn't have the pressure of thinking everybody's expecting something so I have to be what they are imagining. I already had a vampire thing and I was already into the genre. Having read Twilight, I went in with a certain amount of I really want this job and then after the audition I read the other two books. I knew I was going to read them whether I got the role or not. I was just hooked. I read them and then as soon as Breaking Dawn came out, I read the forth. So yeah, I'm definitely a fan.
Edi Gathegi: I think for me, I would have been in trouble if I had read the books before auditioning and realizing how big it was. Especially because when I was cast, there was backlash from the fans because they didn't really see Laurent as being African American because he's described as being olive-toned. So I decided to address the issue head on. I did an interview where I addressed it and I said ,Well, there are many different types of olives. Black olives, anyone? And instantly, all naysayers became believers because they were like A. As far as I'm concerned, black olives are the only olives that exist in my world and B. The interview had some substance in it and they could tell that I was a genuine fan of Stephenie Meyer's novel and that I was going to do my best to bring this character to life.
Rachelle Lefevre: And that you'd thought about it…
Edi Gathegi: And that I thought about specific things about this world and I was invested. When they saw that this was not an actor who will butcher out baby, we want him to play the part. Now we're supportive of him.

Edi, you've actually called yourself sort of a Twi-Hard before…

Edi Gathegi: Twiguy now is the thing. It's the new phrase.

Haha, okay. So what advice would you for other guys who might not think they would enjoy this stereotypically girl movie?

Edi Gathegi: Easy.
Rachelle Lefevre: This is the best answer ever.
Edi Gathegi: Easy. If you have a girlfriend, you take her to this movie and you get points. If you're single and you go to a Twilight event, there will be nothing but girls. Guys, this is a goldmine that you need to tap into.
Rachelle Lefevre: And I actually added my two cents in there from the female perspective – I'm sorry ladies, I know that I'm betraying you by giving away our secrets – but, if you're girlfriend goes Hey, I really want to go see Twilight and as a guy, you just go Okay. I know you really want to see it so alright, you don't get any points for that.
Edi Gathegi: No points.
Rachelle Lefevre: But if you're a guy and you say to your girlfriend Hey, I know you really like this Twilight, baby, Saturday night, why don't we go see Twilight? Come on, I'll take you,” then for me, that's like perfect. It's got to be the guy's idea. Points. Score.
Edi Gathegi: That's your get out of jail free card right there. Twilight.
Rachelle Lefevre: You can't just get dragged.

What about the people that go into the movie cold? They heard all the build up and they've heard about how popular the books are but they've never cracked open the books. They go, Okay, I'll take a chance on this just because I've heard so much about it. Kind of like the Tolkien non-fan who goes to Lord of the Rings just because of the enthusiasm and hype surrounding it. You've talked about Catherine Hardwicke and her eye and her style and her mark on the movie, what do you think, seeing the visual interpretation of the story, without reading the book, what do you think they'll take away from the movie?

Edi Gathegi: Well, it's actually a very lovely story at its very core. It's a story about this human girl who falls in love with a vampire and at its essence; it's a romance novel and a romance movie. I think that the movie, itself, independent of the book, which you don't really because of the book, but for those who haven't read the book, it stands on its own. It's a great film in that way and there's a lot of action in it halfway through the film. This is what Taylor loves. Halfway through the film it gets amped up and it's non-stop, go, go, go, which is thrilling and exciting and you really feel like you've enjoyed a movie going experience with this film.
Taylor Lautner: I know that all my guy friends would totally love the film. I tend to like romance films but this one is not just a romance. It's got action. It's got this little twist of horror in it. I personally love the film and I think that anybody that goes to see it will love it as well.

From the trailer, it seems like there are more action scenes than there are in the book, particularly with your characters, Rachelle and Edi. Can you talk about more of what's not in the book that is going to be in the movie?

Rachelle Lefevre: I don't think there really is anything that is in the movie that's not in the book. There might be a couple of things that are either a way to link two scenes or two story points because they had to condense the story or it might be something like – because it's Bella's point of view, there are things that happen where Bella doesn't have the exact viewpoint so she misses a lot of the action because it moves too quickly for her and her human eyes. There's a lot of action in the movie that is in the book but it's just that we've actually shown it to you rather than Bella going I got hit in the head, I woke up, I heard there was a fight. We actually show you the fight. So in that sense, I think there's a lot more action in it. The other thing that I would say is that I think it's actually a faster pace because it has to be. Because the book is 600 pages and the movie script was like 100 pages and that's just what happens in an adaptation but I think that we were really really true to the book.

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'Twilight' Countdown: Catherine Hardwicke says original script was more like 'Charlie's Angels'.

Two weeks and counting. Today I've got Part II of the Countdown's Catherine Hardwicke interview. (Read Part I here if you missed it!)

The director talks about the original Twilight script, sets the record straight about Robert Pattinson's music and early reaction to the movie.

What were the major differences in the original Twilight script and the one eventually written by Melissa Rosenberg?

The very first thing in the script said that Bella was a track star. She’s obviously not a track star so the first moment you’re like whoa. And then she’s sitting in a diner with James and the bad vampires in the first couple pages. Wow, that doesn’t make sense. And there’s this whole FBI organization that’s tracking these bad vampires, the nomadic vampires, as they go down from Canada to Mexico. I mean, it’s pretty way out. And by the end the FBI is chasing them around on jet skis out in the ocean.
It kind of turned into Charlie’s Angels. It was cool enough that when I read it I became curious. I went out and read the book and was like, Whoa boy. Throw the script away and let’s start over. Out of fairness to the original writer, he’s a great writer, the book wasn’t out at the time the MTV and Paramount people were developing it. The idea of Twilight was only a jumping off point and they did their own thing after that.

What specifically were you most interested in that compelled you to go ahead and get the book?

I was intrigued with the idea of this human girl falling in love with a vampire. And this vampire family seemed very fascinating. Vegetarian vampires –- what does that mean? They’re fighting their true nature and Edward is struggling with his nature and tortured by his feelings. And all the sexual tension was there where you just felt like the closer he got to her the greater chance he would kill her. That’s pretty exciting.

Talk about the love theme for the movie. There seems to be some confusion over Robert Pattinson’s role when it comes to that music...

Maybe you can help me with that! People are very confused because they think that Rob wrote the love theme for the movie and that we chose not to use it and we used Carter Burwell, the composer, instead. That is actually not what happened. I’ve been wanting to tell someone this.
I asked Robert if he was interested in writing the love theme and he went, Not really. No, that’s not my thing. I mean he’s not like an artist that you give an assignment to and he completes the assignment. For Rob, it flows out of him. He’s more of an organic artist. When he feels something that’s when he creates. You can’t tell him, Do this. Do a love theme for Bella that will be used throughout the movie and translates to six different instruments. That’s not the way he creates. So, he never wrote a love theme for Bella.
What he did the day we shot the piano for the first time was he sat down and improvised for the hour we filmed. He improvised beautifully. I mean, he’s such a musician. Just beautiful things and melodies, but it wasn’t an intentional theme that could be used in different parts of the movie and developed and orchestrated with the violins and everything. He just let it flow. So the composer, Carter Burwell, did compose this beautiful love theme and that is developed in the early stages, in biology class, and then it keeps growing and goes through different instrumentations, and finally recorded with a full orchestra. When we re-shot the scene, Rob played that love theme on the piano.

What about the songs he recorded for the soundtrack?

We have two of Rob’s actual songs that he did create in the movie. He created them way before Twilight. Never Think is on the soundtrack. [The bonus song is available when you purchase the disc on iTunes.] They’re both haunting and just beautiful. Fantastic. The fans will not be disappointed for Rob, I don’t think.

Everyone’s waiting to see how the movie performs at the box office before talking about a sequel. But, have you done any preparations if and when New Moon gets the go?

Here’s the thing: I literally last Friday finished working the movie. I know it seems kind of unbelievable, but you won’t believe all the details that go into post-production. You’re literally polishing a gem. You’re working on the music, the sound effects, the color timing, all the visual effects. And so the day I finished, I got on a plane to Madrid; Kristen, Cam and I went. Rob joined us in Rome. So, honestly, I haven’t had time to think about it. Of course, it’s in my mind. I’ve just been trying to make this one really good.

Have you read all four of the books, and if so, which is your favorite?

Of course I’ve read all of them. That goes without saying. Of course I went and got Breaking Dawn at midnight the night it came out and read it instantly. I was like, Yes! On one level, my favorite is Twilight because it’s the first one and it’s when you’re completely introduced to this world, and it’s very fresh and crazy and fun and beautiful. I love Twilight.

Each of them takes you to a new place, and a new level of wild challenges for a filmmaker, shall we say? In fact, each one has more challenges than Twilight does. The rest of the books are going to be more expensive.

How so?

They have all the werewolf effects. They go to Italy. More stunts, going off the cliff, and the motorcycles. This movie will have to make a lot of money to be able to afford or justify the next ones. We hope it does, but we don’t know for sure.

Talk about working with Nikki Reed (Rosalie). This is your third collaboration.

I love Nikki, she’s obviously inspiring and was instrumental in me being able to break out of my other job and get to direct films, which I’d been trying to do for so long. She’s courageous and did a great job in Thirteen. And luckily both Lords of Dogtown and this movie had parts that I thought she’d be really great in.
Rosalie Cullen is, even Stephenie Meyer says, quite a bitch. Nikki can pull that off! Nikki is just like such a little badass. She said, Catherine, you want me to play the character that everyone’s going to hate because everyone wants Edward and Bella to be together but Rosalie doesn’t? I’m fine with that! She’s so feisty and funny.

Are you nervous at all about what the fans are going to think?

We had a mini friends and family screening so I’ve seen the reactions and talked to probably 150 people. A little less than half were Twi-hards and the other part were people who were interested but hadn’t read the books, certainly not three times. Across the board, we got a really positive response. In the Twi-hard group there were like two haters, like, the movie would never live up to what they wanted it to be, and I think that’s to be expected. Anything that creates this much passion, some people are just going to hate whatever’s done. And that’s kind of good too. I don’t feel bad about that. I think if people are that excited about it, that’s good too.
Because mainly of the chemistry between Rob and Kristen, I think people are going to feel good about it. I think they’re going to like it.

How are the cast members handling that pressure?

We were just in Italy. That was pretty crazy. We were in this bookstore after we had already done 10 things, and there was this line of people who had been waiting since eight in the morning. It was around the block. Everyone wanted their books signed and wanted to kiss Rob and photos. There were literally thousands of people so it was physically impossible. That was wild.
Trying to leave the bookstore we had that moment where the cutest sweetest girl one minute before was suddenly smashing the windows of the van, banging on the van and chasing us. The mob mentality is taking over. Personally, I thought it was kind of cool and exciting and fun to be in that rock concert vibe, but I think it’s overwhelming for the cast. Kristen is very tiny and they get jostled around. I was a little bit scared for her.
I think Rob likes it a little bit more than that. But imagine, every girl that walked up there to get there book signed, they would ask, Can we kiss you? and the bodyguard would say no, and then they would just jump over the table and kiss him. Oh yes. Can we take your photo? The body guard would say no, and they would just lean in and take it. It’s kind of funny, it’s kind of intense. But Rob has a great spirit. He makes it funny in a way. He’s wonderful.

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Catherine Hardwicke talks about the meadow and making Robert Pattinson 'dazzle'.

When I asked you guys which scene you were most excited to see, hundreds of your wrote in The meadow! -- and told me how lame it was that I didn’t even list it as a choice in the poll.
You were right. It was lame.
So when I spoke with Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke on Monday, I got her to talk about what she went through to get that pivotal scene right, (in two words: a lot!), how she got Edward (Robert Pattinson) to dazzle in the sun of that meadow, and what moments in the book she had to chop from the movie. (This is the first of a two-part interview. Check back for the second half later this week.)

How did you find the perfect meadow?

That was my misery, I gotta tell you. You are just stabbing the knife into the weak point. That was really hard because on one logistic level, we didn’t have a Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings budget. On a normal movie you would have built a beautiful meadow on a soundstage, that way you could control the sunlight so that Edward can step into and out of it. But with under $37 million, that was impossible. So, oh my, picture me in the middle of January wearing snow shoes hiking up trails for miles trying to find the perfect meadow in the middle of Oregon, freezing. (It was my first time in snow shoes -- that part was pretty fun.) We finally, after hiking all over and getting stuck in chains and seeing zillions of potential spots, we found a beautiful place.
It wasn’t exactly a meadow. It was by a river. But it was just stunning. We moved the filming of the meadow scene to the end of the schedule so we would have the best possible weather, closest to spring time. And then about two weeks before shooting, we discovered that it was still covered in over 12 feet of snow -- my perfect meadow. You couldn’t even get there, there were fallen trees, logging trucks would have had to clear the place. So at the last minute, even in the middle of filming, we had to find a new location for the meadow. I was so stressed out as you can imagine. Running around shooting all week, freezing and trying to find another place.
Finally, we found an absolutely stunning location...
It had these upturned boulders and aged, old growth trees. Just stunning -- but it doesn’t really look like a meadow. So, I’m like, Oh no! But the clock was ticking. I had to shoot on a certain day. And it has to be accessible. So we shot a lot of the scene there. And it looks gorgeous, I mean it looks like a fairy tale location, covered with moss and green and very Olympic rainforest.
But when we wrapped the movie, I said there was one thing I still had to shoot. I was just begging and begging, I’ve got to shoot a meadow. Something that looks like a meadow. Or people are going to stone me in the streets. So we ended up shooting a piece of the scene in a magical place in the middle -- bizarrely enough -- in the Griffith Park golf course. There are these old growth Redwood trees and we brought in all this amazing grass and rocks and moss and made it into our meadow. So we finally got the meadow, but man, it was not easy.

Can you talk about how you got Edward to dazzle in that meadow?

That again was super challenging. We had probably 10 special effects companies trying out experimental ideas on some footage we had to see how we can make him dazzle and sparkle and shimmer. Most of it wasn’t good. We ended up going with ILM (Industrial Light and Magic, George Lucas’ company) and they, of course, are masters at creating amazing effects. We did a full body scan of Rob, which we turned into a 3-D model of him -- (laughs) there is a 3D model of Rob somewhere! -- and did all this very high-tech mapping of every surface of his face and body.
Besides reviewing zillions of versions of it, I wound up flying to ILM with the visual effects supervisor three different times and spending whole days working with the three-dimensional models and the geometry and the physics going, How can we get this to be beautiful?
You know, the description in the book is a tiny bit contradictory. On one level, he is supposed to look like cut diamonds, on another, he’s as smooth as marble. So you’re like OK, when you think of encrusted cut diamonds that’s faceted -- and when we first did that it almost looked like acne, like a skin condition. And you want it to be smooth.
So it’s been very intricate science to get something we felt looked beautiful. And kind of scary, too, you know.

Are there scenes or moments from the book didn’t make it into the movie?

Well it’s almost 500 pages -- you do have to do the sweetened condensed milk version of that. We really tried to have all the most crucial potent exciting stuff be in the movie. That goes without saying.
But there are some things, for example, a scene that I kind of liked in the biology room where they do the blood typing. That’s not in the movie. We already have two scenes in biology: the first time they’re in there and then the second time when they connect. For a film, when you condense, you don’t want to keep going back to the same setting over and over. So that’s not in there.
The meadow scene is 23 pages in the book and, actually, Bella reveals in the car, way before that, driving back from Port Angeles, that she knows Edward’s a vampire. So, we took all those 23 pages in the meadow and the reveal in the car and made a more dramatic scene out of it. So instead of two characters sitting in a car talking, it’s a more visually dynamic setting -- the meadow -- where she reveals her knowledge.

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'Twilight' vampire Pattinson considers stakes of fame

Robert Pattinson, who stars in Twilight as hunky vampire Edward Cullen, has found himself the object of increasing fan fervor as the film made its way to theaters. USA TODAY caught up with Pattinson and tossed him a few questions, some of them from fans of the book series.



Q: Did you have any concerns about not living up to fan expectations of what Edward is like?


A: I never saw it as a vampire. I saw it as a guy with something in him that makes him terrified of commitment. He is extremely passionate and has very little self-control. He is with a girl he can't have a physical relationship with and she keeps tempting him.



Q: Did you study up on any old vampire movies for inspiration?


A: I've seen a few, but I'm not really a fan. I saw the original Nosferatu, but he definitely isn't dating material. My kind of preparation was not to talk to anyone for a long time. Edward would be so bored with any kind of human interaction. He would not feel like he was part of the human world and doesn't care about other people's reactions.



Q: You and Kristen Stewart, who plays love interest Bella, have said you watched Last Tango in Paris as homework. Any other films put you in the mood for Twilight?


A: With Tango, it is about a girl who doesn't fully realize the consequences of her decision. It is the dark side of the coin. I also watched Ang Lee's Lust, Caution and (Hitchcock's) Notorious. And a lot of Japanese films. They are a lot more about stillness, proximity rather than following through. It is what happens before a sex scene.



Q: Are you hoping that there will be a movie of New Moon, the next book in the series?


A: I like the second book a lot. In the second one, Edward is a very different character. I'm looking forward to showing the difference in his physicality as I let my discipline and control go.



Q: What do you think about fans urging Lorne Michaels at Saturday Night Live to have you on as the host and music talent? Would you do it?


A: It hasn't been offered, but I would be quite scared.



Q: If you got to play the main character of another book, what would it be?


A: Money by Martin Amis. I could do it in about 20 years.



Q: What is all this talk about you not washing your hair for months on end?

A: People are scared of my hair. But it starts washing itself after about three weeks. I'm just saying that. But, yeah, if it doesn't look dirty, why wash it?


Q: If you became a vampire for real, what age would you like to be frozen?

A: Maybe 35. People who are frozen at 17, everyone treats you like you are 17 all the time. At 35, you are between old and young.


Q: Would you like to be able to hear people's thoughts, like Edward?

A: Not at all.


Q: What are your next projects?

A: I have two movies coming out. Little Ashes, a drama in which I play Salvador Dali, and How to Be, a comedy. Tiny things.











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