Twilight Secrets Revealed!

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Entertainment Weekly treats Twilight fans to this MUST-BUY issue.

What do I love about this cover?

The cover line “Twilight Director’s Diary.”  If you’re a Twilight fan, how can you pass this issue up?

Love it!

Plus, the magazine is offering up exclusive photos and secrets from the new Twilight book and inside details on why Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke left the the smash hit!

Here’s a sneak peek at the cover story:

Catherine Hardwicke had been negotiating a way to direct the adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s monster-selling sequel New Moon, and the talks had reached the breaking point.

Summit Entertainment offered her a queenly sum to resume her place at the helm – “more money than I or anyone in my family has ever seen,” says Hardwicke – but told her she’d be working with a tight deadline and a modest budget.

Regretfully, she told the executives they needed to find themselves a new director. “I was devastated,” she says.  “I really did feel a strong connection to the people around the world that liked the movie – and to Stephenie and the actors.  But I just didn’t think I could make a good movie under those circumstances.”

Hardwicke first began discussing Twilight: Director’s Notebook with Meyer’s publisher last summer, and then Twilight went on to gross over $350 million worldwide (so far).  “When the movie made enough money, they thought it was worth it,” says Hardwicke.  “They said, ‘Now you have three and a half weeks to do it!’  And I was like, Okay, I’m just going to keep writing until they rip this out of my hands!”

Fans continue to whip themselves into a frenzy online in anticipation of New Moon, which is already deep into pre-production under new director Chris Weitz.  (Hardwicke notes the irony that her replacement is enjoying a better deal than she’d been promised.

“I know the budget they were talking about with me – they’ve already gone way beyond that,” she said.)  But she’s done nursing her broken heart.  “I’m optimistic that it’s going to be great, and I’m sad that it didn’t work out for me to do it,” she said.  “But I’ll do something else cool.”

In the exclusive excerpt of Hardwicke’s diary:

• Kathy’s original watercolor of Edward with long hair and brown contacts.  “I thought he would look good with long ‘timeless’ hair, so Rob spent 8 hours in the chair. Nicole Frank, assistant hair stylist, put in extensions.  Rob HATED them.  The next day Nicole yanked them out and she and MaryAnn and Rob started working on the now-famous Edward hairstyle.”
• A diagram of the cafeteria including the Cullens’ table, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart working on scenes, a picture of Stewart with Stephenie Meyer and more
• Behind-the-scene photos including a look at the staging of the scene where Pattinson’s Edward saves Stewart’s Bella from an oncoming car, the mirror scene, the forest (or “meadow”) scenes and more
• 5 Things to Remember when you’re shooting in a room full of mirrors (like in one of the scenes from the film)

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