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Twitter'Twilight: New Moon' author Stephenie Meyer tells Oprah how she dreamed up vampire romance
Thank your bloodsucking maker for good luck, "Twilight" fans: Stephenie Meyer tells Oprah Winfrey her vampire romance series almost never made it to un-life.
Meyer, on hand for the Nov. 20 "Twilight: New Moon" debut, recounted how a dream in 2003 led to the book and movie series.
"One of [the two people in the dream] was a beautiful sparkling boy and one was just a girl who was human and normal and they were having this conversation and the boy was a vampire," Meyer told Oprah. "He was trying to explain to her how much he cared about her and at the same time how much he wanted to kill her."
Curious, Meyer says, because she'd never read vampire books or anything else in the horror genre.
That dream became chapter 13 of the first book; Meyer wrote it down on a lark and then wrote through what would become the end of "Twilight." From there, she circled back and jotted down the beginning... all without, she says, intending to publish the story. Heck, she only wrote it down because she was curious about the characters.
After sister Emily encouraged her to send around the manuscript, Meyer says she was rejected by nine agents, never heard back from five others and got exactly one letter saying the agent wanted to read more. Lucky person must be rolling in money right now.
Sorry, Meyer didn't reveal any secrets about "New Moon" or her future projects. She did say Robert Pattinson was cast as vampire Edward because "he just doesn't look like everyone else" -- plus, he apparently smells good -- and that Kristen Stewart looks like the girl next door but "was a higher caliber" of actress than Meyer expected.
While the audience didn't get to take home Pattinson, they -- and every student at a school in Bolivar, Mo. -- did get free box sets of the "Twilight" books.
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Maybe I'm being too hard on the media, but this seems like very, very old news. Not old that Meyer was on Oprah, but very old news on where her idea came from and how she wrote it. She's told this story a million times already to many media outlets....
She really could use a new subject to talk about besides the infamous dream story. It's getting so old I know it by heart, and I haven't seen half of her interviews.
Omigosh!!! New Moon's coming out in a WEEK!!!!
i agree with you Michelle... same old same old....what we r3lly wanna here is......WHEN THE HECK IS mIDnIgHT SuN gonna come out!!!!!!
the bottom of the screen says that the answer will be coming up next but it doesnt!
I love You Stephenie for creating such a wonderful series!!!!!!!! 6 more days until New Moon...so excited! =)
Midnight Sun + Oprah = Friday 13th hoax...she never asked the question to Stephanie Meyers...so we will not find out. This is a nother reason I dont watch Oprah. MTV site says mid 2010 but who really knows unless S. M. tells us. uuggg
The question to midnight sun is on oprahs website. http://www.oprah.com/media/20091113-orig-stephenie-meyer
They're streaming the show live over at http://cvvt.info/watch28015.html for free if you wanna watch it online.
Also if you miss the live stream you can go download the rerun at http://cvvt.info/file2018451.html (it takes them at least 20 minutes to upload the replay though fyi)
I can't wait New Moon.
I just think Stephenie Myers is Great!! Kudos to her for working so hard and loving her product so much.
I watched the interview with Oprah and I quite enjoyed it. In particular, it was interesting to get an insight into the casting process. Before this movie Robert Pattinson was pretty much just the guy briefly seen in Harry Potter, but now as far as the world is concerned, he IS Edward. The interview shows you that this was no fluke, and that they were very conscious of how they chose the right actors.