Twilight (2008)
Kristen
Stewart has naturally
green eyes. She wears brown contacts for filming to match Bella's eye color.
Kellan
Lutz intended on keeping
his natural curly hair for the role of Emmett Cullen. However, his previous
role in Generation
Kill required a buzz
cut and his hair didn't grow fast enough for the filming of Twilight.
Henry
Cavill was Stephenie
Meyer's first choice to play Edward. However, but by the time
production was to begin, he was 25 years old, and no longer looked the part of
a 17-year old. He was then offered the part of Carlisle Cullen but turned it
down due to his commitment with The
Tudors.
For the role of Edward
Cullen, Robert
Pattinson flew from England
Taylor
Lautner had to wear a
wig for his role as Jacob Black.
Over 5,000 actors
auditioned for the role of Edward.
According to a July
interview between network.nationalpost.com and director Catherine
Hardwicke, Kristen
Stewart was
recommended for the role of Bella Swan by Emile
Hirsch, her co-star from Into
the Wild and whom
Hardwicke directed in Lords
of Dogtown.
Robert
Pattinson stated in an
interview that this is his first American role and he had no formal training to
perfect his American accent.
When the 'evil
vampires' make their first appearance, actors Cam
Gigandet, Rachelle
Lefevre and Edi
Gathegi are all
wearing little slippers painted like bare feet.
Jessica in the movie
is a combination of the characters Jessica Stanley and Lauren Mallory from the
book.
Eric in the movie is a
combination of the characters Eric Yorkie and Ben Cheney from the book.
Kristen
Stewart wore hair
pieces so they didn't have to waste time doing her hair, and therefore had more
time to shoot.
Kristen
Stewart turned eighteen
while filming the movie and was rewarded with a birthday cake - and a full
night of shooting.
Nikki
Reed (Rosalie Hale)
and Jackson
Rathbone (Jasper Hale)
learned how to play baseball left-handed for the famous baseball scene.
When
Bella is searching the internet and finds the link for the bookstore in Port Angeles
Before casting, Robert
Pattinson had never
heard of the Twilight novel. He only attended casting because he liked Kristen
Stewart's performance in Into
the Wild.
At the cafeteria salad bar, Bella drops an
apple which Edward picks back up and then cradles in his hands, copying the
cover image of the Twilight novel. On the one of the DVD's special features Catherine
Hardwicke said that
took them 13 takes to get it right.
Stephenie
Meyer cited the band Muse as her source of inspiration to write
her books, and another of her favorite groups is 'Linkin Park
It took 36 hours to
turn Nikki
Reed's naturally brunette hair to blonde.
All of the Cullens can
be seen wearing jewelry with the same symbol on it. Edward, Jasper, and Emmett
all had the same wristband, and Alice and
Rosalie had similar necklaces with the symbol on it; Esme had a bracelet and Carlisle had a ring.
Stephenie
Meyer wrote a parallel
novel (unfinished) to "Twilight" called "Midnight Sun". It
tells the story of the first book from Edward's point of view. In it, he
comments that the arrival of Bella to the school has all of the boys
"acting like they're in first grade and she's the shiny new toy".
This thought is spoken aloud by Jessica during Bella's first lunch in the cafeteria.
The original release
date for Twilight was December 12, 2008. When the
release date for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was moved from November 21, 2008, to
July 17, 2009, Twilight's release date was moved forward to November 21 in a
attempt to fill the Harry Potter gap.
The Cullen family
crest (seen worn by all the Cullens) is a lion with a hand over its head, and a
downward pointing chevron with 3 clovers. The lion was added because of the
famous line "And so the Lion fell in love with the Lamb", but the
other portions (chevron, clovers, and hand) are from the actual Cullen Coat of
Arms, although there are fewer clovers (2), more hands (3), and a sheaf of
wheat on the real one.
Stephenie
Meyer had her own
personal cast before all the roles were officially cast. They including Emily Browning as Bella Swan, Henry
Cavill as Edward
Cullen, Charlie
Hunnam as Carlisle
Cullen, Mary-Louise
Parker as Esme Cullen, Rachael
Leigh Cook as Alice
Cullen,Trent
Ford as Jasper Hale, Tom
Welling as Emmett
Cullen and Olivia
Wilde as Rosalie Hale.
Nikki
Reed was the one who
got the producers to add Robert
Pattinson's songs to the film. Reed secretly started recording him
from her laptop, while he was singing, and playing his guitar. She then took it
to the film producers, were they fell in love with his songs. The next day,
they asked Rob if he could sing a few of his songs for the soundtrack, and he
accepted.
Cam
Gigandet was
originally cast as Emmett Cullen, but asked director Catherine
Hardwicke if he could
play the role of James instead. She agreed.
Robert
Pattinson actually
plays the piano in the scene where Edward is playing "Bella's
Lullaby".
The song playing on the
background when Bella comes to "have dinner" at the Cullen's is the
aria "Libiamo" from La Traviata. "Libiamo" literally means
"Let's Drink", which is exactly what the Cullens do when they
"have dinner".
When Bella and Edward
are lying in the meadow, the sun coming through the trees makes a heart between
them.
Prior to the release
of the soundtrack featuring Carter
Burwell's scored theme of "Bella's Lullaby", Yiruma's
piano composition, "River Flows in You", was largely and erroneously
believed by many fans to be featured in the movie as the lullaby. This was due
to a popular fan site including the piece by Yiruma on a playlist of songs that
served as their personal soundtrack for the Twilight book. While this song was
how the fan site imagined the lullaby to sound (and subsequently thousands of
fans online), it was never a part of the movie.
As soon as Robert
Pattinson was cast, he
moved to Oregon Oregon
Robert
Pattinson moved to
Oregon a few weeks before filming began and didn't talk to anyone to try and
feel as isolated as Edward Cullen.
The apple on the cover
of the book is not only a symbol for the forbidden; in Scandinavian mythology
the apple is a symbol for eternal youth and beauty. However, on her official
website Stephenie
Meyer states that she
used the apple on the book cover because of the past literary connections
(causing trouble every time) like in Snow White and the Golden Apple Paris
gives to Aphrodite in Greek Mythology and because to her apple represents
"choice".
When
Carlisle bit Edward, he whispered something
into his ear. The first time it was "I'm sorry" then "My
son". On about the fifth take he said, "You're sexy".
In the scene where
Bella goes to the Cullens house for the first time, when Nikki
Reed's character had to break the bowl, she actually cut her hands.
This is why she is wearing gloves for the scene in the film.
Peter
Facinelli was the
second choice to play Carlisle Cullen. When he found out that he lost out on
the final round of auditions, he wrote a note to Catherine
Hardwicke, saying, "I hope to work with you sometime." At
the last minute before shooting, the original actor withdrew due to shooting
conflicts. Hardwicke then offered the role to Facinelli, who immediately took
up. He had to dye his hair blond before starting work.
Bryce
Dallas Howard was
offered the role of Victoria
In addition to Robert
Pattinson and Jackson
Rathbone among the 4
finalists for the role of Edward, the other two, according to Catherine
Hardwicke were Ben
Barnes and Shiloh
Fernandez. Rathbone was eventually offered the other role of Jasper
instead.
When Edward and Bella
are standing in the doorway of the Cullens' kitchen, there is a chess set on
the dining room table behind them with red and white pieces, like the cover of
'Breaking Dawn', the final novel in Stephenie
Meyer's 'Twilight' saga.
Stephenie
Meyer: The author of the original books can be seen next to a
laptop ordering a vegetarian sandwich in the diner at the beginning of the
scene where Charlie asks Bella if she likes the boys in town.
Robert
Pattinson unknowingly
contributed two songs to this film. Apparently, he didn't know that "a
mysterious third party" had given the director a copy of music he had
recorded years ago. She decided to use two of the songs, and he was surprised
to hear them when viewing early film footage. The songs are: "Never
Think" [playing during the restaurant scene] and "Let Me Sign"
(plays during the scene where Edward has to drink Bella's blood to save her).
Pattinson said he was overwhelmed by how well "Let Me Sign" fit into
the film.
While entering the
building at the prom, Victoria
The dress Bella wears
in the prom scene was only twenty dollars. The suit Edward wore was the most
expensive item of clothing from the entire shoot.
Source: IMDb
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