http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/10/18/brace-yourselves-more-twilight-is-coming

I am so stoked for a new Twilight movie! I mean, who doesn't love a teenage girl who is having trouble between choosing bestiality or necrophelia, or a guy who's trying so hard to fall in love with his food? This will be so amazing!




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*faints*

Oh the irony...

She isn't having trouble actually, she was dead set on necrophilia from the start.

I really don't see the need for a film reboot so soon. They haven't even completed the original saga yet. And it's not like the books were a masterpiece or anything. This is the very definition of "milking" a series.

I guess somewhere along the line they realised they won't be able to keep making money if the movies are done, so they'll make more. It would probably be in their best interest to make a spin off series, probably based on that Bree book or 50 Shades of Grey or something.

So that vampire dude is few hunded years old right?.... Why is he still in highschool is he [censored]... are all the advlts in the high school [censored]? IS THE SCHOOL THEY ARE ATTENDING INSIDE THE HEAD OF A CHILD?

The family is "blending in" to society. He and his "brothers and sisters" we're turned when they were teens so they are stuck at that age. Though homeschooling would be a better excuse but wouldn't give them the same social status that is all important in the high school years.

I think a "reboot" in this case may be justified.

Why? The Twilight saga is on the **** list of many vampire lovers. Yes, they can be seductive... but the vampires in Twilight are something... else entirely. A reboot, in this case, may be an attempt for the filmmakers to take the series into a more "acceptable" direction for a (non-comedic) movie involving vampires.

Unless they *are* doing a spinoff TV series or movie. At which point it's going to be more of the same.

Which begs the question; do they have to kill the teachers who've had them before?

Social assimilation.


Given the way the book is written, the story, and the characters, I really don't see any way it can be portrayed other than a cheesy romance flick with some bastardized supernatural crap thrown in. As for why it's popular? It came out at a time when teenage girls didn't really have that romantic hero type to look at, so the book became popular among those kinds of girls. And then when the films came along it was that coupled with girls having crushes on the lead actors.

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They move every few years when their apparent age begins to exceed the way they look, for a couple decades, so by the time they come back no one recognizes them and they start high school from scratch.

IIRC they move every couple of years. As long as no one finds out no one has to die. It should be noted that that particular vampire family is "vegan". As in they don't kill humans for food, they use animals.

But they're immortal. There are only so many places in the US. Do they go elsewhere? Why am I even trying to understand Twilight logic?

I doubt it. "Reboots" are typically an attempt to just take a different approach at the same source material. Since the source material in this case is basically disposable Mary Sue fanfiction, the type of vampires involved is not likely to change.

And in the process, vampires and werewolves have been tainted by the franchise which spawned countless media of the same type; True Blood, Vampire Diaries, etc. It corrupted the world's folklore!

No, they can actually keep elements of the book, story, and characters, but make it so that it's more "acceptable" to traditional vampire fans.

It's basically what Disney did with Grimm's Fairy Tales (which lives up to its name. In more ways than one. Requiring the 2nd edition to be "toned down." And Disney toned THAT down.)

Sure do.

To be fair, Anne Rice bears as much responsibility as Meyers for screwing the genre.

Well i guess tonight is night [censored]e 's die

True Blood is based on a series of books called the "Sookie Stackhouse" series or something, and I think those books were there before Twilight novels. However it didn't receive much attention until Twilight (which visibly ripped it off quite a bit) came out and made it more popular. The show itself is a result of the Twilight fame though, most likely. Don't know about Vampire Diaries.

In both cases, most female viewers only watch it for the male leads rather than any of the barely existent substance in the show.

As for its popularity. Romance novels have always been around, this one was aimed at a younger audience, and the writing style as well as they characters play to that in a way that make it easily relatable to a wide variety of young females (and some males).

I find it hilarious that an Internet forum of gamers that are [self diagnosed] aspies, bronies, furies, metal heads and other social outcasts, can make fun of or otherwise shun and degrade something based solely on the facts that its popular and its not aimed at their particular caste.

Kill me.