Twilight Superfans Blog

In late August I was able to take part in phone interviews with several members of the "New Moon" cast, including Kristen Stewart, Michael Sheen, a few Cullens, a few humans, a wolf, and a nomad!

Read them all here!

Awesome new exclusive from MSN Movies, this clip has Chris Weitz talking about the wolves' special effects, and Alex Meraz and Chaske Spencer discuss the bond between the pack.

Is it November 20 yet?

Any doubts you may have had about how the wolves look in "New Moon" will be erased when you see this awesome clip. The wolves are fierce and huge! Chris Weitz...thank you...mwah!


See it bigger on my New Moon Trailers page!

Follow me @TwiSuperfan!

Alex Meraz, who plays Paul in "New Moon," is everywhere these days.

Here he is a couple of weeks ago in Vangroover, getting his takeout. Presumably returning to his hotel to eat in peace and privacy (which seems to be what the whole Twicast does now, understandably so). Can I just point out that it's raining, probably about 58 degrees, and he's in flip-flops and a muscle shirt? Likin' the feet tattoos.

Alex is also featured in an upcoming issue of Los Angeles Confidential magazine--the center of a photoshoot styled by competitors in the latest MTV reality show, "Styl'd." The shoot took place at the Grand View Cemetery in Glendale, CA. Wolf goes vampire.
The show premieres on Sunday, November 1. See more of Alex's photos here.

And Alex is the latest Wolf Pack member to join Twitter!
Some of his latest Tweets:
He even posted a photo so you can be assured it's really him:

Follow him @TheAlexMeraz. And follow me @TwiSuperfan!

Sources: LaineyGossip and NewMoonMovie

If you missed my May post about Vampire Baseball in Portland, Oregon, fret not. There are still tickets available, but they're going fast! Fast like a wind-up pitch from Alice.

Taking place during the 4th of July weekend, this benefit for the Make A Wish Foundation will have several "Twilight" cast members in attendance, including Edi Gathegi, Rachelle Lefevre, Peter Facinelli, Christian Serratos, Alex Meraz, and Mike Welch--a healthy mix of humans, vampires, and wolves.

There is a one day package and a one-week package.

Rachelle Lefevre says, "Hey Twilight fans! Really looking forward to seeing you at the event on July 4th for an amazing Independence Day celebration. You can root for whoever you want but remember, I'm the one with the wicked curve-ball!"

Deets are here.

6.22.09: Check out the updates sent to me from Fantrips.

Quite a photo, eh? It's my early Cinco de Mayo gift to y'all.

USA Today gives us our first glance of the Wolf Pack in character, and these guys would make anybody's temperature run up to 108.9 degrees:

"Four actors — Chaske Spencer, Alex Meraz, Kiowa Gordon and Bronson Pelletier, all with Native American heritage — join Taylor Lautner, 17, who returns as a hairier, scarier Jacob Black. The plotline finds Jacob growing closer to a distraught Bella (Kristen Stewart) after her vampire beau, Edward, runs off.

Among wolf pack job requirements: the ability to work half-naked no matter what the weather in the Vancouver, B.C., area, where the film has been shooting for several weeks."

I've been curious as to how they are going to do the CG effects to make these guys look like the giant, scary wolves in New Moon, and I got my answer:

"No amount of weightlifting, however, would allow them to act out the wolf portion of their performances; the beasts are about the size of horses and race around on all fours.

Instead, the transformations are computer-generated, although one part of each wolf might seem familiar.

"They all have the actor's eyes," Weitz says."

See the whole article here, and the accompanying piece here.

Alex Meraz, the hunk who plays hot-tempered "Paul" in New Moon, gives Access Hollywood the scoop on being shirtless and cold in Vancouver, B.C., director Chris Weitz's sense of humor, and the "fantastic" cast.

I can't wait to see the entire Wolf Pack once the movie comes out. I would imagine it's going to be a complicated combination of make-up, costume, and CGI--I just hope it will look as real onscreen as it does in my mind.