Cast and Crew Head Back for Some Extra 'Twilight' Shooting
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No, Twilight fans -- it's ok! This is good news and it isn't going to result in a delay of the movie. Summit wouldn't break your hearts like that. Even though the clock is ticking, the studio is taking a bit of time to smooth out the movie's kinks. According to MTV, they're going back and filming some extra scenes, months after principle photography wrapped -- a move planned long before Twilight snagged the vacant Harry Potter date. It isn't because anyone's dissatisfied with the film -- the cast insists the opposite is true. "They liked it so much, they are bringing us back for some encore time - to beef it up," says Peter Facinelli, who you all know better as the vampire Carlisle Cullen. "A little salt and pepper." Taylor Lautner, the head of this whole "Team Jacob" thing, says that rehearsals for the new scenes were "a ton of fun" and that they're just to clarify a few plot points. "I know they've been showing it to some people, and some people go, 'I want to see a little more of this,' or, 'I don't quite understand this,' " he explained.
None of the cast members could reveal what the new scenes were, but you Twilight fans can probably guess from the hints, such as Facinelli's being a flashback. "It gives us a little bit of history of the Cullen family. They are just shooting a couple of different added scenes, and the scene I'm in, I can tell you it's me and Robert Pattinson ... Rosalie and Emmett are in that scene."
The ending is also being tweaked to include Lautner. "I am going to be in the prom scene now, at the very end of the film," he said. "At first we didn't film that, and now some people are saying they want to see a bit more of Jacob, and they want him in the prom scene at the end."
It drives me nuts not to know what any of this means, which means it's time to borrow the book from someone. In the meantime, Twilight fans, discuss these developments among yourselves.
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8-27-2008 @ 12:21PM
Rebecca said...
Can never have too much Twilight :)
check out the awesome twilight shirt i just got:
http://www.twilightshirts.com/shirt/mrscullen
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8-27-2008 @ 12:36PM
caro said...
Sad to read there's more Jacob to suffer at the end of the film. Could do without him. More Edward please. I'd love to see how he reacts when he's first turned into a vampire.
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8-30-2008 @ 3:17AM
twimom said...
True Twilight fans accept every character in the books. Haters need not reply!!!
8-27-2008 @ 2:56PM
owl said...
If they are shooting more scenes the movie has problems plain and simple. Of course they will try to spin it otherwise, they don't want negative buzz forming about the film.
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8-27-2008 @ 3:09PM
Caitlyn said...
I cant believe they left the prom scene with Jacob out in the first place... ahh... I am so excited for it to come out!
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8-27-2008 @ 9:23PM
Caitlyn said...
As a Twilight fan, this makes me very excited. I am a hardcore Harry Potter fan, and when they leave out things in the movies that I think are important I get upset. To think that they went back to shoot more and that Stephenie was already impressed by the 5 minutes she had seen, makes me super excited. Though I am extremely upset that they bumped Harry Potter to next July (insert sadface here) I am very glad to see Twilight bumped up.
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8-27-2008 @ 11:35PM
Loliv said...
Yay! More Taylor!
Does anyone know where they are filming these? Like, where in Oregon, if they're still in Oregon?
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8-28-2008 @ 6:31PM
Danni said...
they are filming outside of Portland...
8-28-2008 @ 8:19PM
Twilightfan said...
I'm so glad they won't be delaying the premiere date. (: I really love twilight. And Rebecca, that shirt you got is sweet. GO TEAM EDWARD!
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8-28-2008 @ 8:38PM
steph said...
Whose brilliant idea was it to take characters out of relatively important scenes? It MUST have been Stephenie Meyer, with as bad as those books are, why not make the movie worse?
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8-30-2008 @ 12:04PM
MaddiesPerch101 said...
Awesome!!! The more Twilight, the better! Go TEAM EDWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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8-28-2008 @ 9:27PM
lauren said...
hmmm i never read the books my freinds are in love with them don't understand...... but maybe i will start reading them because i will be dragged by my freinds to see the movie ohh wells
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8-28-2008 @ 10:05PM
Karen said...
Twilight is my brand of heroine
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8-29-2008 @ 2:15PM
artSTAR said...
...what exactly is Twilight (an inanimate book without gender or sex) the heroine of? Or, if you meant Bella, what does she champion?
this series anger and confuses me. i keep reading, hoping that i'll see some sort of struggle between her love for Edward and her desire to live out her own destiny, but i can't seem to find it. the only struggle (other than the obvious near death experiences) is between meyer keeping bella's humanity and reliving what she wanted for her own youth. subtext as i've read it: love is obsessive, controlling, and a device in which we forget our own goals in support of someone with rippling biceps. By being a vampire, we can preserve our youth (old people? love? ew!), and dedicate our futures to a love based on the fact that I smell good/look good, and not on mutual respect, admiration, and passion.
but maybe i'm taking this all too seriously (curse you, English Literature degree!).
"edward lifted his gloriously shining leg over me, and pee'd. I knew then that I was his and he my owner. Forever."
8-28-2008 @ 11:01PM
Gina said...
Dude! Elisabeth! Come on! I work 2 jobs and have read 'Twilight' twice now! Hop to it!!!
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8-29-2008 @ 10:05AM
Belinda said...
oh yeah! team edward all the way!! cant wait for da movie. i started kinda late on da books. actually very late....this summer. but i finished them in time to read da fourth one wen it came out =p yay me! i love edward, and i love twilight!
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