Twilight To Open a Bit Earlier

Twilight‘s U.S. release was to be 12 December but is now 21 November. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been pushed back to July 2009. Why is a mystery to me.

Twilight is a vampire movie based on the bestselling vampire book by Stephenie Meyer. She’s one of those people who sat down one day, banged out a book in three months and found a publisher three months after that. Hard not to be jealous of that.

Stephenie Meyer is not a fan of Buffy The Vampire Slayer or Angel either, though she does like a lot of reality TV. Twilight is a more realistic vampire story, well, as realistic as a story about a vampire is likely to be. She does like The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice, so she isn’t all bad. Of course, that’s how you can crank out a book in three month-you don’t what’s already been done so you steam right ahead.

Twilight is the story of eternal teen angst and is not to be confused with cute little Twilight Turtles that help babies get to sleep. Well, maybe they could make a special Vampire Twilight Turtle for scary little babies.

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is one of those rare vampire books that I have not read. So I will wait until I see the movie this time and hope for a few small surprises. As with most books that have a large base of fans who love them, new readers to Twilight seem to be disappointed with it. It’s impossible for any book to live up to the hype of being something so great and wonderful, no matter how great and wonderful it really it.

Twilight, after all, is just a book. Interview with a Vampire was a shockingly good book because it gave the twist of the Vampires being the heroes, if not exactly the good guys. The twist in Twilight is that its a Young Adult book instead of an adult horror book. So the movie Twilight might not be the standard Vampire movie either. I hope it will be better.

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