Picture: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart
The Twilight Saga: New Moon - one of the most eagerly awaited movies of the year - is here. Check out these cool film facts.
- New Moon director Chris Weitz also directed the 2008 fantasy adventure The Golden Compass and co-directed hit comedy American Pie.
- Chris initially wanted to replace hunky Taylor Lautner because the part of Jacob Black required a more heavily-built actor but Taylor rose to the challenge and bulked up to keep his role. Thank goodness!
- New Moon took nine months to film and was shot in Canada and Italy.
- Jackson Rathbone (Jasper Cullen) is also a musician and the singer in a band called 100 Monkeys.
- The New Moon soundtrack features songs written for the film by artists such as The Killers, Muse and Death Cab for Cutie. “We wrote and recorded the song, turned it in and hoped the people deemed it worthy,” Death Cab frontman Ben Gibbard says of their tune, Meet Me on the Equinox.
- Brenna Roth (Emily) is known as the set’s practical joker and gave Robert Pattinson a bottle of self tanner and a hairbrush as one of her many jokes!
- The Secret Life of Bees actress Dakota Fanning takes a small, powerful part as Jane, one of the vampire coven known as the Volturi. “Dakota hasn’t ever played a bad person, probably because she’s a very good person. But I think she really had some fun playing the most evil of all the bad guys,” director Chris Weitz says. “Jane’s bad news. Very bad news.”
- Asked what her favourite scene in New Moon is Nikki Reed (Rosalie Hale) says, “Anything Taylor Lautner is in. He’s incredible. And I’m not saying that because he takes his shirt off in every scene. He just makes this film amazing.” Has someone got a crush?
- We’ll have to see about Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart’s rumoured off-screen relationship. But Rob has made it clear what kind of girl he likes and Kristen definitely fits the bill. “I like people who are strong and have a lot of darkness to them,” he says.
