A list showing all the editing errors that appeared in the first Twilight movie—starring Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner—has gone viral.
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A list of all the filming mistakes made in the first Twilight movie was recently compiled, and fans of the 2008 vampire movie starring Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen), Kristen Stewart (Bella Swan) and Taylor Lautner (Jacob Black) can’t get enough of revisiting the blunders.
Keep reading to uncover more secrets from the Twilight franchise.
1. When first writing Twilight, screenwriter Mark Lord reminded that the male audience wouldn’t be interested. “They wanted to take the concept [of Romeo and Juliet with vampires] and build in a structure that was far more a cinematic structure,” he shared on The Big Hit Show podcast in January 2022. “And they wanted to just p3. Paramount and MTV initially had acquired the film rights to Twilight, with the original script making significant changes to the book. “It had veered very far from the book, and so I didn’t like it at all,” director Catherine Hardwicke revealed to CinemaBlend. After three years, Paramount released the rights and then-independent film studio Summit Entertainment, immediately picked them up.
4. Book author Stephenie Meyer had some strict guidelines when it came to the adaptation of her source material. She didn’t want any stereotypical vampire elements added in and demanded that Edward’s “so the lion fell in love with the lamb” line make it into the final version. She also stepped in to have Kellan Lutz take over the role of Emmett when she didn’t agree with the initial casting choice and asked to have Bella and Edward’s first kiss toned down. Of stepping in to put her foot down, Meyer told EW, “That’s hard for me, but I’m glad of every time I did it and I don’t think I stepped on too many toes and everyone seems to still like me. “
5. According to Summit’s then-Head of Production Erik Feig, Meyer was adamant that her vampires didn’t have fangs. “The negotiated language says, ‘No actor playing a vampire will have canine incisors longer than those found in the average human being,'” he recalled on Spotify’s The Big Hit Show podcast. “And that to me is… I love that line.”
6. Some soon-to-be-major actresses (including some who will become faces of their own respective franchises) that auditioned for Bella Swan included Emily Browning (Meyer’s early first choice), Michelle Trachtenberg, Lily Collins and Jennifer Lawrence.
“I didn’t really know what it was,” Lawrence later said on The Howard Stern Show of her Twilight audition. “You just got like five pages [at the audition] and they’re like, ‘Act monkey.’ And when it came out I was like, ‘Hot damn!'”
7. Based on a suggestion from Emile Hirsch, who starred opposite Kristen Stewart in Into the Wild and was in Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke’s Lords of Dogtown, the filmmaker zeroed in on Stewart for the role.
“I see Kristen…with all that longing and just lusting for Emile [Hirsch] And I’m like, ‘Oh my God, that is so what I felt from the book. This girl that has so much longing, and it’s so contained , and just repressed longing, but it was so palpable,'” Hardwicke said of watching Stewart in Into the Wild. “So I thought, ‘Oh, it’s got to be Kristen.'”
8. While the actress initially had no interest in the project upon hearing the synopsis, but after meeting with Hardwicke and going through the script together, Stewart quickly changed her mind.
9. Over 5,000 actors reported went out for the role of Edward Cullen, including Dave Franco, Jamie Campbell Bower (who would go on to play Caius in the follow-up films), Schitt’s Creek’s Dustin Milligan and Michael Welch (who landed the role of human Michael Newton). Moreover, Henry Cavill was Meyer’s first choice, but was too old by the time the movie came along. He was reported considered for the role of Carlisle, the Cullen family patriarch.
But the final four contenders were Robert Pattinson, Ben Barnes, Shiloh Fernandez and Jackson Rathbone (who would eventually take the role of Jasper Cullen), and they were all brought to Hardwicke’s home in California to test opposite Stewart.
10. The chemistry read involved the infamous meadow scene, which Stewart and Pattinson performed on Hardwicke’s bed. When it came to the kiss, Hardwicke recalled Pattinson being a bit too revved-up, but told EW, “It was electric.” Pattinson later revealed he took half a Valium before the make-or-break audition.
After the four actors tested, Hardwicke was still uncertain, but Stewart knew who her Edward was right away, telling Vanity Fair, “I was like, “‘Are you kidding me!? It’s such an obvious choice!'”
