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While we have a lot of great writers on Collider, I’ve decided to locate a Twilight super fan to review our copy of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 on Blu-ray. I’m not looking for someone who thinks it’s the greatest movie ever made, and I’m not looking for someone who hates it either. I’m trying to find someone who loves the books and the films and can do an objective review while also writing about all the special features, commentaries, and the extra things on the Blu-ray. If you think you’ve got what it takes, hit the jump:

Here’s the deal. I’m not going to mail you our only review copy just because you tell me you’d be good for the job.

Instead, if you’d like to review it, please email me at thecollidermailbox@gmail.com with the headline TWILIGHT BREAKING DAWN SUPER FAN. I’d also like you to provide links to your writing online, or examples of your writing in the body of the email. And I don’t mean a few sentences. I’m looking for enough examples that prove you are the right person for the job. Keep in mind, I’ll probably get a number of people asking for this, so you’ve got to sell me on why you’re the right person.

Also, since the movie gets released soon on DVD/Blu-ray, I’d like whoever wants to do this to live in the USA so you can get the Blu-ray in time to review it before opening day.

Finally, if you’re reading this and think you know someone that would be perfect for the job, send them this article!

Send me your emails asap, because I’m going to pick someone on Monday the 6th!

Finally, if this all sounds familiar, it’s because I did the exact same thing for our Blu-ray review copy of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and it turned out great.

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After about a month of rumors, Summit Entertainment  (the current owners the Twilight Saga films) and Lionsgate (the current owners of The Hunger Games films) announced that they were merging their studios.   It wasn’t something that was of a huge interest to most fans until the CEO of Lionsgate, Jon Feltheimer, spoke to the LA Times about the future of the Twilight franchise. When asked if there would be more films, he stated, “It’s hard for me to imagine a movie that does $700 million-plus doesn’t have ongoing value. It’s an amazing franchise that they have done a great job of maintaining with absolutely no deterioration. So the simple answer is ‘Boy I hope so.’” Then he was asked a follow-up question about that future involving television. Lionsgate, unlike Summit, has a TV arm.  Feltheimer replied “I certainly hope so.”

Feltheimer’s two speculative statements were all that were needed to set off a firestorm of discussion among fans.  What would a television show look like? Would fans actually tune in? Was it even a likely reality?  Perhaps most importantly, was this a good idea on any level? So here’s what the fanbase seems to think based on some polling that I did over at the Twilight Lexicon last week.

The most basic of questions is, “Would the fans want a TV show?” Only 27% of the fansbase responded to that question with a flat-out “no”. The remainder were split between instant approval and maybe. The most important thing to the fans in these last two categories was the involvement of Stephenie Meyer. It’s no shock to anyone that Twilight fans are highly protective of their franchise. They don’t like deviation from what is in the books.  Author Stephenie Meyer is for many fans the final word when it comes to change. If Stephenie Myer approves it, then they’ll accept adjustments. One fan named Jackie summed it up by stating, “I think a TV show or series would be a great idea. It would have to have Stephenie involved to have the same continuity as the books. Her story and the way she tell it is what sells the books and the movies, it would not work if it went in any other direction.”

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Clearly there are many possibilities here, and nothing has been officially announced. For every movie to TV or TV to movie success story such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Star Trek, there are just as many abject failures. The real test here, should it come to pass, will be the concept of the book to movie to TV of what is a megafranchise.  That exact combo is as of now untried.

Where do you stand? Do you want a Twilight TV series? If you do, what would be the ideal focus? After 295 days the Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn: Part 2 will come out and the Twilight Saga will be over…or will it?

 

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After receiving our first tempting glimpse of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 footage back in June when the teaser debuted at the MTV Movie Awards, fans were elated to get the full trailer on September 13th, Bella Swan’s birthday. So how does this trailer stack up against its predecessors? Are there any elements that were left out, or were too many liberties with storyline taken? There are a couple of key elements to look at.

The first area, without question, is romance. Above all what attracts fans to The Twilight Saga is the romance factor. It’s classic Team Edward vs. Team Jacob. With all that in mind, stunningly, not since the original Twilight movie has the romance played such a significant part in any trailer. In the Breaking Dawn Part 1 trailer Bill Condon and company clearly deliver with multiple wedding and honeymoon shots. It leaves fans wanting to see those scenes and wonder what else he has in store.

Next up is CGI. We’ve come a long way from Twilight and its meager budget. Remember the cheesy effects of the fast moving vampires? In Twilight they were smudgy blurs that looked like they were created in iMovie by someone who dropped out of film school. Chris Weitz first raised the bar in the New Moon trailer with the explosive wolves, and David Slade took it up another level in Eclipse with the newborn battle. Now it looks like Bill Condon has improved on both those elements. The Cullens do battle for Bella and Renesmee with Ashley Greene, with Jackson Rathbone clearly seen leading the charge. More importantly is that Condon has created a wolf pack where every wolf is highly distinct in color, bulk, and expression.

The element of danger is clearly present in this trailer too. Whereas the first three films had one enemy to worry about each time, this trailer makes clear that we have a battle on two fronts and each front is given equal time: the wolf pack and the baby. There are also glimmers of a third front, the Volturi, that won’t fully play out until the second movie.

The trailer itself has over 100 highly unique shots. This is impressive in of itself, but it’s the details in these shots that’s really amazing. Fans can spend hours freeze-framing and picking out subtleties. I spent roughly an hour screen capping and gawking at the richness in the pictures. Many of these were highly faithful to the novel. Some of my favorites include Jacob zooming to the Cullen’s house on his bike, his heartfelt dance with Bella, and the teary-eyed shot when he realizes his world is completely falling apart. I adored the honeymoon sequence and Edward’s profession of last night being the best night of his existence. My all time favorite, however, was the transformation of Bella from nervous bride, to afterglow with feathers, to the drastic, death-mask look of her pregnancy.

Of course as with any movie there are departures from the novel. Since the novel Breaking Dawn is told from Bella’s and Jacob’s points of view, there are clearly things that happen, but aren’t seen by the readers because those two characters aren’t physically there. One of my favorite parts of the Twilight Saga movies is seeing these alternate points of view brought to life. In the current trailer seeing the anguish on Charlie’s face, and Aro’s scheming in Volterra are the first two that leap to mind.

The only departure that is meeting with a little bit of fan controversy is what seems to be an out-in-out battle between the Cullens and the wolf pack. In the novels a battle is threatened but it never comes to fruition. On the other hand, maybe it did — could confrontation have happened while Bella was giving birth while Edward, Jacob, and Bella were focused on other things? Then when Bella wakes up three days later no one really mentions it? Who knows? Regardless, a wolf battle with Edward and Jacob present is certainly not part of the books, but is it a deal breaker for fans? Does it ruin the movie? In my opinion, no.

So all-in-all how does this trailer rate among fans? If a poll I ran over at the Twilight Lexicon is any indication, Breaking Dawn Part 1 is everyone’s favorite by a landslide. A whopping 85% (at the time of this writing) rated it as their favorite with the original Twilight coming in a distant second. Mitzie from our Facebook page said, “It makes you want to go and read the book again!!” and Melanie from the same page echoed ,“ It’s 20 out of 10! This one looks like it’s going to be the best one yet! I’m so excited!”

So what were you favorite moments of the trailer? Where does it rank against the previous ones?

Just 63 days until we all get the big payoff: the entire movie.

QueenOfNoize13 Irina
64 DAYS TILL BREAKING DAWN!!!!!!! I CAN`T WAIT…….

YenTwiHeart Yen Gomez
Okay I should really go. Bye TwiLighters. We really had a great day today! .:D ♥♥♥♥♥ I LOVE YOU BREAKING DAWN!!!

tyleerxo Tyler Peter
OMGZZZZZ! Seriously DYING at the new Breaking Dawn trailer.

Beforethedawn Rocio S.
I dreamed i as pregnant. Too much Breaking Dawn lol

DestinysNelena Selena Jonas
wow breaking dawn trailer was amazing really looking forward to the movie

lucilayer Lucila Toro Acevedo
New Breaking Dawn Trailer Is Finally Here: Cue the Violins and Vampire Sex! eonline.com/news/the_awful… via @eonline

GORGEOUSKSTEW nicole
KEEP CALM AND WATCH THE BREAKING DAWN TRAILER

paullld paul davidson
the new trailer for breaking dawn has got me all excited! ahh hurry up november 18th

YenTwiHeart Yen Gomez
RT if you know Breaking Dawn is gonna be the best Movie in the whole Series. <3

leraproshik Valeria Porokhina
OMG Breaking Dawn trailer is amazing!!

TVampireD22 laura arce
OMG new breaking dawn trailer is amazing!!! Ahhhh!! I cannot wait! I’m getting those tickets as soon as they come out!

ElizRhoads Elizabeth Rhoads
64 days & counting…I may be 24, but I’m still a sucker for these movies (& books!)

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‘Breaking Dawn’ Trailer Is ‘Stunning,’ Experts Say

‘I really liked that they stuck to the book and the heartfelt moments that are in ‘Breaking Dawn,’ ‘ one ‘Twilight’ superfan tells MTV News.

By Kara Warner (@karawarner)

If you’re as excited about “Twilight” as we are here at MTV News, then you’re likely still reeling from the release of the brand-new trailer for “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1″ on Tuesday.

Now that some time has passed in order to reflect on those two minutes and 30 seconds of goodness, we decided to seek out the reactions from our favorite dedicated “Twilight” experts.

“Fantastic. Definitely my favorite [trailer] of any of the movies,” gushed Laura Byrne-Cristiano, who owns TwilightLexicon.com. “I think [director] Bill Condon absolutely nailed it. He got everything: action, romance and an amazing collection of individual shots. There’s got to be close to 100 individual shots in that trailer, and it’s just absolutely stunning.”

Kara Hassell of TwilightersAnonymous.com agreed with Condon’s trailer-cutting brilliance.

“My overall reaction is I loved it,” she said. “I don’t think Bill could have done a better job. He picked everything that I think everybody wanted to see for the most part. I think it was perfect, and I wasn’t missing anything.”

Hassell added that she felt a more emotional connection to the new trailer. “There were a lot of heartfelt moments. I really liked how that played out in the trailer,” she said. “The last couple films, they tried to push the action in it, and I really liked that they stuck to the book and the heartfelt moments that are in ‘Breaking Dawn.’ ”

Meanwhile, Kallie Matthews from TwilightSeriesTheories.com expressed delight in getting more glimpses of the arrival of baby Renesmee, or “Nessie,” a nickname readers of the book well know.

“We got to see a little bit of what it’s going to be like to have Nessie, and that’s going to be awesome,” Matthews said of Bella’s intense, climactic labor scenes, during which Renesmee is welcomed into the world. “I’m really, really excited, because it wasn’t all romance; it was some of the conflict and turmoil,” she added. “So that got me excited about it.”

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