News broke recently that in honor (?) of the tenth anniversary of the publication of teen paranormal romance juggernaut Twilight, authress Stephenie Meyer will be releasing basically a director’s cut of the book where plot holes are corrected and where the genders of the characters are swapped. Yes! Antiquated gender roles and expectations be damned, here comes Edyth and Beau! And if you Twi-haters are worried this means that there’s an unending parade of new movies coming along, Meyer assures us that her fantasy casting means that you can rest easy:
I don’t really see that happening and a lot of the people I’d put in it would be like Grace Kelly so it’s a little too late for some of my first choices.
Ugg, does this mean that my gender-swapped version of the Baby-Sitters Club staring Kermit Roosevelt as Stanley McGill and Cary Grant as Don Schafer won’t be coming to a big screen? What was the point of that commerical where Gene Kelly danced with a vacuum cleaner if we can’t shove Grace Kelly in any old movie we want??!? Technology is such a tease.
Related: E. L. James did a perfect Twitter Q&A recently.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jarrylee/fifty-shades-of-shade#.ovYjlJMYy
Maybe she’ll re-write 50 Shades about an insane woman and the clueless male virgin she abuses?
Favorite: “Can you confirm that you will be writing the story of Ramsay Bolton from his perspective, showing he is just misunderstood?”
“I just skin people because my dad doesn’t hug me!”
Nope. that’s all I can say.
If they don’t make it into a film, how will I know what faces to put on my tattoo of the new version???
ps. wow. that is a fan.
Inconclusive. Maybe she got it on her back because she was like “I need to put this nightmare behind me.”
If you are going to pay that much money for a tattoo why wouldn’t you find someone that actually knows how to draw?
It’s not coming…it’s already here! Cleolinda has graciously taken this bullet for us and has already started livetweeting the experience:
https://twitter.com/cleolindajones
I don’t know who cleolinda is, but now I’m following her!
OMG Cleo is the best! She wrote Twlight recaps back in the day, now she writes Hannibal recaps, and she’s responsible for the hilarious “Movies in 15 Minutes.” She’s great.
http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/