MTV caught up with Kellan Lutz, who played Emmett in the Twilight movies, about the new, Twilight saga short films that are being planned. Here is what he had to say.

“Well, that’s very innovative. I have to hand it to Summit and Lionsgate. That’s a great way to reach the masses again,” he said. “It seems like it’s going to be really interactive as well, with Facebook fans being able to voice their opinions. I just think it’s a really cool idea. They better not give my character away.”

But they couldn’t possibly recast Emmett, right? “Nah, that happens all the time,” Lutz said.

Even in that case, Lutz is still grateful for what the series meant for his career. “‘Twilight’ was such a blessing that I couldn’t have foreseen and it doing what it did,” he said. “Lionsgate is smart. Look what they’re doing. I’m sure the fans are just gung-ho about that.”

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Twilight meets Sesame Street actually done by the official Sesame Street people. At this point we’re just on for the ride, not sure how much more surreal the week can get. We have a feeling it’s going to be a month of things we never thought we’d be posting about!

Via our friends at That’s Normal.

MTV put together a great piece on GIF reactions to the news that there will be more Twilight movies in short film style.  There are nine of the gifs all together each with captions that are pretty funny.

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So clearly this is our subjective and highly biased view, but here are the five stories in no particular order that are found in the The Twilight Saga: Official Illustrated Guide. (You can buy the guide from Barnes and Noble or your favorite indie bookstore) that we think have the most promise for short film adaptation.

1. Alice’s Backstory

Alice is easily the most popular female character after Bella. Trust us, whenever there was a Twilight costume contest, there were always more Alice’s than any other character. Her backstory is great when you realize that it’s filled with murder and intrigue. Conniving father, unbelieving mother, being thrown into a mental hospital, and then James thrown in turning her into a vampire.  This is the stuff that keeps you wondering what’s next.

2. Victoria and Heidi A Sisters Story

Are you saying, “wait, what?” Heidi and Victoria are sisters. The answer is yes, sort of. Victoria wasn’t always with James. She started out in England in fact and eventually allied with a coven of women who she considered to be her sisters including Heidi. It all changed when Aro came upon their coven with ulterior motives and murder on his mind. 

3.  Charlotte Peter and Jasper

Who doesn’t love a love story when the odds are stacked against them? Charlotte and Peter’s story is about them breaking free of Maria’s coven and livign their own life saving each other from a dark existance, and in turn actually saving Jasper by giving him hope.

4. Aro and his collection

Aro is the ultimate charming villain. He is a master manipulator. the hard part is picking what angle of his story to go with since he pretty much leaves a trail of bodies wherever he goes. The best bit though is probably the fact that he killed his own sister in order to order to control Marcus and keep him around as a shell of his former shelf.

UPDATE: Given the parameters of the project announced on November 11th, the last two ideas wouldn’t work since all pitches have to take place in the universe BEFORE Bella and Edward met.

Calling all Rob fans!  It’s Rob in a very wet t-shirt as he takes on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge in his own unique way.  

Just after Comic Con 2014, EW ran this story about how the Twilight Fanchise changed SDCC and asked if that change was for the good.  The whole article is wonderful!  Here are some highlights:

A few years ago, though, there was a pretty clear narrative on Comic-Con (it’s getting bigger) which came with its own cool-kid anti-narrative (it’s getting too big!) And there are a few hundred reasons behind both those narratives, but the unifying whipping boy was Twilight. The franchise arrived at Comic-Con in 2008. It shared a panel with the forgotten telekinetic thriller Push (starring future Twilight baddie Dakota Fanning and future Captain America Chris Evans); other films shown off at Comic-Con 2008 included Terminator: Salvation, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, and Watchmen. Reading contemporary reports about the film’s panel, you find a lot of confusion (what is this movie doing here?) and more confusion (why are there so many people cheering so loudly for this movie I’ve never heard of?)

Time passed. The lines for Twilight became historic; in 2009 and 2010, you started hearing the stories about how the line for Hall H was becoming a self-sustaining Hooverville economy, with Twihards waiting in line for days hoping to catch a glimpse of Pattinson/Stewart et al. 

[Then] began the meme of “What is [thing I don’t like] doing at Comic-Con?” Why was Glee at Comic-Con? Why was How I Met Your Mother at Comic-Con? Why was Castle at Comic-Con? Oh, Nathan Fillion’s in that? Well, okay, but why is Glee at Comic-Con?

There was a sense that Comic-Con’s glorious past had been replaced by a vaguely dystopian future; there was a sense that something had invaded, though it was hard to say whether that “something” was Hollywood or teenagers or anything that wasn’t a comic book. 

Flashforward to this year’s Comic-Con…But this was the Comic-Con where American Horror Story finally arrived in San Diego, which also means that this was the Comic-Con where Kathy Bates got a standing ovation.  It’s hard to know where something like American Horror Story would have fit into Old Comic-Con; this year, I saw a long line of people despondently waiting to fit into the small corner room where the AHS panel took place. (Bet you next year they move to Ballroom 20.) 

Comic-Con has gotten much bigger–but the flip side is that it’s gotten much more interesting. Certainly, it’s feels like it’s welcoming more kinds of people. 

Is this all a direct response to Twilight? I think yes. When you think of fandom pre-2000, the idea of a fan is split pretty cleanly: There’s the Fan-As-Living-Encylopedia, who can spout minutiae from Steranko’s entire run of Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.; and there’s the Fan-As-Living-Freakout, the screaming hordes in A Hard Day’s Night who love the Beatles so much they start crying. Twilight at Comic-Con somehow fused those two fandom aesthetics into one; you could camp out for days speaking with serious fluency about the changes made from book-to-film, but you could also scream into near-unconsciousness whenever Pattinson answered a question. Anyone could be a megafan of anything–and more and more, “anything” was going to be at Comic-Con.

What are your thoughts?  Did Twilight’s presence at SDCC change it for the better or the worse?  And how many of you would have never gone to SDCC had it not been for Twilight?  Read the whole story at EW.  

Win a Con*Quest Adventure Journal for your next con!

Support their Kickstarter and tell your friends! Twilight has given me so many amazing experiences, meeting people and doing things I could have never even imagined 10 years ago. After traveling across the country, hosting numerous panels, getting hundreds of autographs and getting my picture taken with dozens of actors, I sure wish I would have had a journal (more than one actually) to keep all of those great memories in from a truly amazing time in my life. Sadly, there just wasn’t anything available specifically for those conventions experiences.

Enter Shelley Harper, former PR roadie for the Twilight Lexicon, One Less Nemesis t-shirt vendor, and now, with her business partner Ted, creator of the Con*Quest Adventure Journal™ – a journal for comic and fan conventions. If only I had thought of this! Ted and Shelley were vending at Portland comic-con last January and noticed that the leather journal and hard plastic photo protector booths were pretty busy. At that moment, they said, “Hey why isn’t there a journal especially for comic-cons. WE should make a journal especially for comic-cons!” And so they did.

The Con*Quest Adventure Journal has pages for everything you do at a con. There are 30 pages to capture autographs, artwork, panel notes, foodie notes and stick pictures, stickers and stuff on. There are sleeves for your photo-ops, artwork and comics, a business card holder, a zipper pouch and each journal comes with a Sharpie. They knew you would want to be able to carry this around with you for easy access, so they had a custom long handled canvas tote bag created that is perfect for putting all of your con stuff in. It’s really the whole package.

I’m supporting their Kickstarter by backing them for a journal and bag and I’ll be giving it to one of you!

Just tweet this:

Support Con*Quest Adventure Journal – journal for #comiccon on @kickstarter http://kck.st/1sSdf6L @Quest_Journals @TwilightLexicon

You can also post on Facebook, tell us you shared it in the comments below.  We’ll pick a winner on Thursday, July 17 so you can have your journal in time for San Diego Comic-con or any other con on your schedule! This contest is open to anyone in the continental United States only.  Let’s help them get this awesome project funded!

Be sure to follow them on Twitter, like them on Facebook and check out their website here. To see a video with more details about the journal, they have a Youtube video here.