Cast and Crew Head Back for Some Extra ‘Twilight’ Shooting

August 28, 2008

Filed under: Horror, Romance, Fandom, DIY/Filmmaking, Newsstand

No, Twilight fans — it’s ok! This is good news and it isn’t going to result in a delay of the motion picture. 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’re bringing us back for some encore time - to beef it up,” states Peter Facinelli, who you all know better as the vampire Carlisle Cullen. “A tiny 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 tiny more of this,’ or, ‘I don’t quite comprehend 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 tiny bit of history of the Cullen family. They’re just shooting a couple of different added scenes, and the scene I’m in, I have the ability to 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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