FORKS – A group from Summit Entertainment production studio will consider Forks and Port Angeles locales for filming a movie based on the vampire novel, Twilight.
The group of four – their names and positions have not been released – have looked over Vancouver, British Columbia, and Vancouver Island earlier this week and will arrive on the North Olympic Peninsula to inspect it within the next few days, said Suzy Kellett, director of the Washington State Film Office.
“We will be scouting in the next couple of days,” Kellett said on Wednesday.
“Until we’ve been out there, I won’t really have much else to tell.”
The movie will be based on a best-selling young adult novel, Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer.
Meyer has written a series of three books – including sequels New Moon and Eclipse – which are set in Forks.
The group will visit Port Angeles and Forks areas, but the specific locations of the scouting trip haven’t been disclosed.
The trip won’t be the deciding factor, Kellett said.
It will be the first of probably several trips and many discussions.
In the novels, the main character, Isabella Swan, leaves Phoenix, where she lived with her mother, and moves in with her father, who is the Forks police chief.
There, Bella meets Edward Cullen, a vampire who becomes her boyfriend.
Twilight was published in October 2005 and had reached No. 5 on the New York Times Best Seller List for young adult chapter books by November of that year.
It has been translated into 20 languages.
The most recent USA Today‘s best seller list listed Eclipse as No. 7 and New Moon as No. 22.
Summit Entertainment selected Catherine Hardwicke as director and Melissa Rosenberg as the writer, Meyer’s Web site, www.stepheniemeyer.com.
Hardwicke directed Thirteen, The Nativity Story, and Lords of Dogtown and is working on The Monkey Wrench Gang.
Rosenberg has worked as both producer and writer on such television series as Party of Five, The O.C., Skater Boys and Dexter.
