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The scoop on Comic-Con's TWILIGHT panel! Updated with pics!
Source: TheCinemaSource.com
Posted on: Thu, Jul 24, 2008 19:58:35

Written By: Michael Dance
MichaelDance@TheCinemaSource.com

The biggest room at Comic-Con is called Hall H. It holds 6,000 people, has its own bathrooms and concessions, and usually sports a relatively quick line of a thousand people waiting to get in. And at about two-o'clock, it was filled to capacity by hysterical screaming girls. And their moms.

No, this wasn't a Jonas Brothers concert -- it was the panel for Twilight, a "vampire romance" movie that comes out this December.

The Twilight craze is huge. You don't know that if you're an upstanding male geek who's seen The Dark Knight three times and didn't understand my Jonas Brothers reference, but you're about to be swamped with Twilight news.

Based on a book -- the first in a series -- by Stephenie Meyer, Twilight stars Bella, a new girl in town who falls in love with Edward, who's been seventeen for the past few hundred years and loves Bella hopefully more than he wants her blood.

Something clicked, because this is the kind of hype you haven't seen since Harry Potter. The film, directed by Thirteen's Catherine Hardwicke, stars Kristen Stewart (Into the Wild) as Bella, Robert Pattinson (Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) as Edward, and a host of other young up-and-comers including Cam Gigandet (Never Back Down), Edi Gathegi (House), Rachelle LaFevre (What About Brian), and Taylor Lautner (Sharkboy and Lavagirl).

All of the above showed up onstage, along with Meyer. And the crowd screamed. And screamed...

Actual news? Nothing much: everybody said they loved the book to death, etc. Hardwicke hinted that Pattinson might contribute to the soundtrack; Kristen Stewart halfway admitted that she didn't think the book was all that great ("It's not really my thing...but I thought I'd try something new"); and suddenly too much fame and adoration immediately destroyed each actors' psychological makeup forever.

But you don't care, do you? You just want to see pictures of Robert Pattinson, don't you? Fine, here we go:























 


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