“The Twilight Saga: New Moon” dips its fangs into theaters November 20 courtesy of director Chris Weitz. The Volturis, played by Jamie Campbell Bower, Dakota Fanning, Michael Sheen, Cameron Bright, and Christopher Heyerdahl will also be there looking all vampire and clannish.
Those wacky kids and their love triangles. Should I go to the prom with the werewolf, date the vampire, or date both and not tell them about each other? You know, your usual sitcom-ish dilemmas, but with vampires and werewolves.
Two new pics from “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” (seriously, Summit really needs to reconsider that clunky title) via Yahoo! Movies today, including your first look at Martin Sheen as the vampire Aro, leader of the Volturi, which, if I’m not mistaken, is some kind of spicy Italian sauce.
The other pic is Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) beside a lake doing that whole “stare deeply into each other’s eyes to express our hidden desires which we dare not speak aloud for fear of consequences” thing.
UPDATE: Added four more pics of the Volturi clan.
Here’s your first look at the Volturi vampires from the Chris Weitz’s upcoming “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” in full costume. Okay, just their face, because apparently Summit Entertainment has yet to release the official promo arts, but that didn’t stop someone from getting their hands on them and creating this little nice row call sheet anyway. Question: did they really have to “make up” Dakota Fanning’s face? The girl looks creepier without the makeup, but maybe that’s just me. First, a little bit about them:
The Volturi are the equivalent of a royal family to vampires. They operate from the city of Volterra, Italy. The Volturi have existed for at least three thousand years, if not more. They are the largest coven in existence, followed by Carlisle’s family and Tanya’s. However, they do not follow a “vegetarian” diet, as seen in New Moon, in which they capture and murder several humans in a carefully planned “meal”. They are considered the de facto royal family of vampires, as they are the largest and most influential coven in existence . The Volturi deal swiftly and decisively with anything they consider a threat to their city, or the vampire world. They destroy anyone who attempts to overthrow them, or resist their authority and, at Caius’ insistence, have hunted werewolves (true werewolves, not shape-shifters) to near extinction in Europe and Asia.
Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone, Bronson Pelletier, Alex Meraz, Billy Burke, Edi Gathegi, Rachelle Lefevre, Michael Sheen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Dakota Fanning, Anna Kendrick, Tinsel Korey, Cameron Bright, and directed by Chris Weitz.
“New Moon” rises November 20, 2009.
Via ohnotheydidn’t.
Image via Twilight-Blog:
Look at me, using words like “Volturi clan” like I know what I’m talking about. I don’t, of course, but apparently the Volturi clan are a bunch of olden vampires in Stephenie Meyers’ “Twilight” books, and they are featured prominently in the next movie, “New Moon”. The last we heard, Dakota Fanning was already cast as one of the Volturi, and now actor Jamie Campbell-Bower has joined her.
From the BBC:
British actor Jamie Campbell-Bower has revealed he will play Volturi leader Caius in The Twilight Saga: New Moon.
The 20-year-old, who has appeared in RockNRolla and Sweeney Todd, told the BBC news website that taking part in the vampire series was “very exciting”.
“You’re the first people I’ve told” he said. “Shooting has already started, and I’m going over in June.”
So the 20-year old is going to play the leader of a vampire clan? One that includes 15-year old Dakota Fanning? Man, I don’t know whether to run away if these guys come after me, or grab a stick and start yelling at them to “Get off my lawn!”
Oh who am I kidding. It’s definitely the latter.
