Age-Old Problem

Even as post-production on the big screen adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's first novel in the Twilight series is racing to an end talk already has turned to the sequels according to MTV News.

The current thinking is to adapt the next two books New Moon and 'Eclipse,' back-to-back with the reason being to lock the actors before they age their features too much.



Director Catherine Hardwicke: "Our vampires can't age...if they were like 45, people would say 'What's up?. [Filming them together] could be the case. Then, you just get it done."

Producer Greg Mooradian adds: "It's been discussed. I can't tell you we're at that place yet, but it's definitely been discussed. [We like the idea of] shooting them back to back, and shooting them simultaneously as they did with 'The Lord of the Rings' From a production standpoint, it's a great thing to do. But it's quite an undertaking."

He then turns to the other benefits of working overtime on the other 2 flicks:

"The goal is to keep it moving quickly. [That will] give the audience a sense of knowing that the next installment is going to come at a really specific increment of time. We're going to go as fast as humanly possible, especially since there are at least four stories to tell. We'd like to keep a real consistency as to how quickly we are able to do it."

For her part, Meyer supports the idea of shooting the sequels simultaneously. Those involved have signed on for three films and if given the go-ahead production on both of them could begin right quick.

It all sounds like a good strategy. The books have quite the following...However, if for some reason that core audience is let down with film #1 then what do ya do?