Twilight author Stephanie Meyer has announced a contest in which 5 aspiring female directors would be selected to create short films based on the Twilight saga to be shown on facebook sometime in 2015. The contest will be judged by Meyers herself along with Kristin Stewert (Bella from Twilight) , Octavia Spencer (Academy Award winning actress for "The Help"), Julie Bowen (Emmy Award winning actress for Modern Family), Catherine Hardwicke (Twlight director), and Cathy Schulman (Academy Award winning producer) and the shorts will be backed by Lions Gate entertainment.
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| Kristin Stewart as Bella |
Meyers has stated that the purpose of this contest is to bridge the gap in the lack of female directors but I can't help but think the subject of the contest might have a lot more to do with it. Especially with the inability to garner the same success that she had with Twilight with the last Meyer book to film adaptation, the box office flop "The Host". With Anne Rice and Universal agreeing to revive Lestat I fully expect the Cullens to return as the authors security blanket sooner than later with this being step 1. Especially with Lions Gates quote regarding this project helping to "Introduce the World of Twilight to a whole new audience while re-energizing existing fans" combines with Meyers own cryptic quote of "This is just the begining -A template- if you will." and most importantly she states "You can probably guess what might be coming next."
I won't grown too hard as some "Twi-hards" do get it such as Fleetwood Mac member Stevie Nicks whose music video for "
Moonlight" was inspired by the series and VERY well done. IF one of the winners decides more vampire-ism and less teen love drama I'm all for it.
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Winslet, Octavia Spencer, Julie Bowen, Catherine Hardwicke and Cathy
Schulman - See more at:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/hollywood/twilight-saga-set-to-return-with-5-short-films-on-facebook/article1-1270523.aspx#sthash.6pySIz5K.dpuf
Kate
Winslet, Octavia Spencer, Julie Bowen, Catherine Hardwicke and Cathy
Schulman - See more at:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/hollywood/twilight-saga-set-to-return-with-5-short-films-on-facebook/article1-1270523.aspx#sthash.6pySIz5K.dpuf
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