Kristen Stewart Wants A ‘Twilight’ Series That Sucks…In All The Right Ways

Article by Alexandra Gambardella
“Harry Potter” did it for wizards, “Lord of the Rings” won big for
hobbits, and “Narnia” brought it home for the talking woodland
creatures. But can a soon-to-shoot movie similarly turn the creaky film
cliché of vampires into the next multimillion-dollar fantasy flick
franchise?
“The movie is called ‘Twilight,’” 17-year-old “Into the Wild”
actress Kristen Stewart beamed when we recently spoke to her. “['Lords
of Dogtown' filmmaker] Catherine Hardwicke is directing it in
Washington. It’s based on a book that’s pretty popular [among] young
adult, high school kids.”
Although Stewart and co-star Robert Pattinson (Cedric Diggory!) will
soon film only the first movie, they’re already talking about turning
the vampire storyline into a series that really sucks. And since the
latest book sold over 150,000 copies in its first day alone, Bella and
Edward fans everywhere are already counting down the months until the
film’s release.
“People really love these books,” said Stewart. “Right now it’s a
trilogy, and a fourth book is coming out, so hopefully we’ll get to
shoot all four.”
For those who haven’t yet been bitten, “Twilight” will feature
Stewart as Bella Swan, a teenage girl whose life gets turned
upside-down after she meets and falls in love with a vampire.
Additional names will be cast in the next few weeks, but according to
the actress, 21-year-old Pattinson is already sinking his teeth into
the role of Edward.
“He’s so good and he’s so soulful and he’s just not a liar — you can
feel pain from him,” Stewart cooed. “The cool thing about the story is
that it’s a seemingly wonderful fantasy — let’s fall in love with
vampires and live forever — but it’s so much harder than that. Imagine
living forever. Living one life is hard enough.”
But don’t get fooled into thinking this is going to be “The
Notebook” for the undead. “The main character is like, superhuman,”
Stewart said of the action scenes in the script. “He’s a vampire, but
with really [heightened powers]; he can run faster than a car can
drive, and he’s super strong. He throws me over his back [in one
scene], right before he’s going to tell me that he’s a vampire, and
then he runs over the treetops. And we’re going to be in real treetops;
we’re not just going to CGI it. We actually get to go up there, and
that’s what I’m stoked on.”
“It’s a pretty triumphant love story,” Stewart concluded, looking
forward to stepping in front of the cameras. “It’s gonna take a while,
and it [deserves to be] at least a series of three.”