Comic-Con: Summit Entertainment
July 26th, 2008 | Published in Online Press
San Diego Comic-Con has begun again and newcomer Summit Entertainment had their very first panel.
Twilight
When first announced, the scream in the 6,500-capacity Hall H was so loud my hands immediately covered my ears as a reflex. Screaming continued throughout every single introduction of cast members, author Stephanie Meyer and director Catherine Hardwicke.
The first clip showed a scene from near the end of the film with Bella (Kristen Stewart) in an empty house hearing her mother’s voice. She opens a door to find its a family video playing on a TV. She turns around and the three ‘bad vampires’ are there and James (Cam Gigandet) taunts her. As she tries to escape, he jumps over her and throws her to the ground. He then grabs her calf and squeezes hard til she screams. Edward (Robert Pattinson) shows up and punches James, James grabs him and they fight - breaking many windows and mirrors in the process. James also takes a bite out of Bella.
Young girls kept screaming through the presentation, especially when Pattinson appeared on the monitors. When director Catherine Hardwicke revealed that Pattinson actually fell off a bed during a kissing scene, the crowd again went wild - as they did when Pattinson joked about Kristen’s audition scene becoming a three way on Catherine’s bed with Hardwicke filming.
The film has been through ten weeks in the editing room with the sound design, score and visual effects currently underway. Some of the cast members will apparently do at least one of the songs for the film’s soundtrack. Meyer herself has seen about 15 minutes of completed footage.