What Is Stephenie Meyer Working on Next: A Summary

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There’s been so much news lately on the various projects that Stephenie Meyer is connected to, we thought we’d do a summary in case people had missed something.

The Host Movie

  • Adapted from the novel written by Stephenie Meyer
  • Stephenie is a producer Open Road is the company producing the film
  • Andrew Niccol is the screen writer/director
  • Debuts on March 29, 2013
  • In several interviews Stephenie mentions writing the two sequels called The Seeker and The Soul.
  • In a recent interview she was asked about a sequel to the movie if it is a hit and she stated that she is writing slowly and that affects production. However she did sound committed to having the two sequels.

Austenland Movie

  • Adapted from the novel written by Shannon Hale
  • Stephenie is a producer Fickle Fish Films, Stephenie Meyer’s production company, made the film that was shot in summer 2011
  • This is the first movie from her production company.
  • The screen writers are Shannon Hale and Jerusha Hess who also directed
  • The film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival to great reviews and was picked up by Sony Classic Pictures for distribution.
  • The release date is TBA.
  • Fickle Fish Films has the film option to the sequel novel Midnight in Austenland.  If the first film is a hit, they will make the sequel

Down a Dark Hall

  • Adapted from the novel written by Lois Duncan
  • Stephenie is a producer
  • Fickle Fish Films, Stephenie Meyer’s production company, is currently developing this script
  • Stephenie is not the writer, but would be a producer
  • Wyck Godfrey, of Twilight fame, is also involved

Anna Dressed in Blood

  • Adapted from the novel written by Kendare Blake
  • Stephenie is a producer
  • Fickle Fish Films, Stephenie Meyer’s production company, is currently developing this script
  • Stephenie is not the writer, but would be a producer
  • Wyck Godfrey, of Twilight fame, is also involved

As for how Stephenie views the future of her production company she told Deadline Hollywood, “I would prefer right now for it to be one passion project at a time. I don’t see it being this great big company where we’re doing dozens of projects. I would like to get one book that we love, make it into a movie then look into another one. It’s too hectic otherwise.”

 

Video: Austenland Cast Talks to the Sundance Channel

Check out the stars of Austenland talking to the Sundance Channel. Yesterday it was announced that Sony Classic Pictures would be distributing the film. Date is still TBA.

Video: Watch Stephenie Meyer and the Austenland Cast and Creative Team at Sundance

Here is the video that is the Q & A that took place after the screening of the movie Austenland. Great news of today is that the film has been picked up by Sony Classic Pictures for distribution, date TBA.

Stephenie Meyer’s Production Company to Produce Anna Dressed in Blood

According to the LA Times

And Meyer has a juicy new project, The Times has learned: “Anna Dressed in Blood,” a young-adult ghost story from the acclaimed author Kendare Blake.

Blake’s book is a supernatural tale about a man named Cas who travels the world killing the dead — he’s a ghost hunter, essentially — but runs up against a vexing case in the ghost of Anna, a woman who was brutally murdered in 1958 and who continues to haunt a small-town home.

The book generated hugely positive reviews when it came out last summer. And wouldn’t you know it: Critics are already comparing it to a certain blockbuster franchise. “Cinematic and compelling. Blake’s smooth combination of gore and romance should have little problem attracting the Twilight crowd,” wrote Booklist.

This is the the second book that is loosely in this genre that Stephenie’s company has optioned. The other is the Lois Duncan classic, Down a Dark Hall.

Video: Stephenie Meyer’s Austenland is a Hot Commodity at Sundance

According to Deadline. Austenland is one of the hottest properties at Sundance this year.

EW has another video that we can’t embed here.

Viedo: Meet Jared Howe from The Host

Here’s a new video focusing on the character of Jared Howe from Stephenie Meyer’s The Host with behind the scene footage and an interview with Max Irons.

Video: Stephenie Meyer Talks the Joys of Austenland

Hollywire caught a quick interview with Stephenie Meyer at the Sundance Film Festival and asked her how producing Austenland compared to producing Twilight.

Video: First Austenland Clip

With all the news coming from Sundance that Austenland is just as delightful as we had hoped it would be, we were happy to find a clip of the film!  For those who have yet to read the book by Shannon Hale, the story focuses on Jane Hayes, a Jane Austen lover, who gets to spend a few weeks at a retreat in England where all the guests are treated to the lifestyle of characters from Jane Austen’s stories.  In the clip, Jane, played by Kari Russel, tries shooting for the first time.

 

Stephenie Meyer to Produce Anna Dressed in Blood

Stephenie Meyer’s production company, Fickle Fish, is taking on another horror/YA romance book and bringing it to the big screen. Anna Dressed in Blood is about a Ghost hunter, Cas, who comes up against Anna, the ghost of a woman who was brutally killed in 1958. According the the LA Times:

The book generated hugely positive reviews when it came out last summer. And wouldn’t you know it: Critics are already comparing it to a certain blockbuster franchise. “Cinematic and compelling. Blake’s smooth combination of gore and romance should have little problem attracting the Twilight crowd,” wrote Booklist.

Fickle Fish’s list of films include Austenland, which is getting great reviews from Sundance, The Host, which will be in theatres in March, as well as another ghost story based on the book Down a Dark Hall. What are your thoughts? Have you read Anna Dressed in Blood? What are your hopes for the movie?

Read more at LA Times.  

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson Top Forbes Romantic Couples List

According to Forbes

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, when movie lovers’ thoughts turn to romance films. Older folks might think of putting on Casablanca; Gen X’ers, Say Anything. What does it say about the millennial generation that the most popular love story of their time involves a young lady, a vampire and a werewolf?

That’s why Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson land at the top of our list of Hollywood’s Highest-Grossing Romantic Couples. We looked at the top-grossing romantic movies of the last three years. Twilight was by far the biggest box office winner over that period, earning $1.17 billion.