Catherine Hardwicke recalled the difficulty for the studios to accept making the adaptation
Catherine Hardwickedirector of Twilight, stated that he did not expect the success of the film and, especially, its million-dollar box office. In a podcast interview Watchalongthe filmmaker recalled the difficulty in getting the project off the ground, as many studios refused production:
“Every studio in town refused [o filme]. MTV and Paramount backed off. Everyone said we couldn’t do it. Even when I started the job, they said, ‘You know, Four Friends and a Traveling Jeans It was a popular book among girls. He earned US$29 million. That’s probably all this movie can yield'”said Hardwicke.
“And our opening weekend was $69 million and we made $400 million total. No one could have predicted that!”added the filmmaker.
Based on the book of the same name by Stephenie Meyer, Twilight was released in 2008 and quickly became a hit with the public. In history, Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) moved to the rainy city of Forks and met Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a mysterious boy, with whom she ended up falling in love, even though she knew he was a vampire.
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The million-dollar box office of the first film guaranteed four sequels for Twilightbased on the books New Moon, Eclipse It is Dawn. Together, the five films in the saga grossed US$3.3 billion.
Source: Rollingstone
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