THR has an interview with Stephenie Meyer, Andrew Niccol, Saoirse Ronan, Diane Kruger,and Jake Abel,  

THR: Stephenie is currently in the process of penning a sequel to The Host. Do you know where the story might go?

Abel: She’s a steel trap. We tried the whole time to get little bits of information out of her, and she’s locked up tight. I have no idea. And we wondered if maybe the things we created on set would influence her. She had mentioned that watching us bring it to life had given her ideas, and the things we’ve done with each character have given her ideas of where they go, and that’s really interesting, I think, for both of us to be influencing each other in this streamlined way. … There was one thing — we wanted to play guitar in the movie. We wanted Ian to play guitar. So we got a guitar and we had a piece written for me to learn, and we were ready to go, but then she was like, “Stop!” And she wouldn’t say, but I think, hopefully, music is a big part of the second book.

Niccol: I had a beautiful piece of music composed for [Jake] to play, but Stephenie says, “No, music plays a pivotal part in the next book, so can you not play?” Funny thing is, there is a chamber in the cave where you see a guitar leaning up against the wall. It’s foreshadowing for the next movie.

Meyer: Not having written it doesn’t mean you don’t know everything that’s going to happen. I have very detailed outlines, I do a lot of outlining, to the point where there’s dialogue in my outlines. The outline for this is about 50 pages long. It gets very in-depth. So I know exactly what’s going to happen. There’s a lot you can do with a science-fiction world. There’s a lot of exploration you can do, so there’s a lot of different directions.

Make sure you check out the full interview for full details!

One again, the various bonus footage you will get with your DVD/Blu-Ray copy of Breaking Dawn Part 2 will vary depending upon where you buy it.  Here is the break down for the versions at Target and Walmart.

At Target, if you pre-order the film you will get a free 30″ x 40″ Breaking Dawn Part 2 movie poster which Target is valuing at $9.99.  The 2 disk Blu-Ray and 3 disk DVD will come with the 7 part behind the scenes feature, the director’s commentary, and a digital copy.  The Blu-Ray is priced at $22.99 and the DVD at $17.99.

Over at Walmart there is no gift with purchase, but the price is lower.  The Blu-Ray is going for $19.99 and the DVD for $14.96.  Both of these versions appear to be the same as what you will get at Target from the look of the box cover, including the digital copy.  

However Walmart is going one step further and offering something Target doesn’t have.  You can order Breaking Dawn Parts 1 and 2 together which includes the extended edition.  There are no details on the site as to the bonus features on this combined set, but Hypable is reporting that the combo set does not come with the extra features.  We’re currently checking with Summit/Lionsgate for this info.  The DVD is priced $22.96 at and the Blu-Ray at $24.96.  

Lastly, we’ve seen many of you asking about deleted scenes from Breaking Dawn Part 2 and the concern over having to buy the film again in 6 months just to get those deleted scenes.  We voiced your concerns to Summit/Lionsgate and were told that there wasn’t much footage from Part 2 that was cut – at least not enough to include a deleted scenes section on the DVD or a future extended edition.  It also appears from the footage of the 7 part behind-the-scenes documentary that we might see some deleted moments in there.  It might not be the answer you are looking for, but we wanted you to know that we have made sure Summit/Lionsgate has heard your concerns.    

I don’t know when this all started, but I can’t stop laughing!  Leave us a comment on what your favorite mis-spoken moment was!

For me, it’s a toss up between, “I need your hairspray!” and “Well, we got ya’lls toothbrush so…” Or maybe “I do like a nice egg!”

When you’ve been in this fandom long enough, you relize that Stephenie Meyer doesn’t speak up too often! But when she does, her fans listen. Earlier this week Stephenie posted the following on her website:

Happy New Year, everyone, and I hope you had a fantastic holiday season! This is not a real update, I just like to spread the word when I come across a book that excites me. I read Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor last weekend (sequel to Daughter of Smoke & Bone) and I’m all fired up about it. Thank you, Ms. Taylor, for a thrilling couple of days. I am in your debt.
(Warning readers: this is one of those series that will have you tearing at your hair and gnashing your teeth waiting for the next installment. Be prepared.)
Steph

Quick to take notice, Little Brown has offered up 10 copies of Daughter of Smoke and Bone to our readers as a gift. If you haven’t heard of the book, here is some background information:

In master storyteller Laini Taylor’s DAUGHTER OF SMOKE & BONE, which The New York Times called “a breath-catching romantic fantasy,” readers are pulled into an amazing, multi-layered world in which Karou, a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague, finds herself caught in the middle of a brutal age-old war between the chimaera, creatures with human and animal attributes, and the beautiful and dangerous seraphim. When Karou meets a seraph named Akiva, she is set on a path of self-discovery that leads to love, loss and war.

“Daughter of Smoke & Bone” has received honors including an Amazon.com Top Ten Books of 2011, Amazon’s #1 Teen Book of 2011, a Publishers Weekly Best Books 2011, a Huffington Post Top 10 YA Book of 2011, and a New York Times Notable Children’s Books of 2011.

“Days of Blood & Starlight,” the sequel to “Daughter of Smoke & Bone” is a New York Times bestseller and was named a Best Book of 2012 by Amazon.com and Publishers Weekly, received an “A” from Entertainment Weeklyand was named the “next big thing” by Wired Magazine.

So if you would like to win one of the ten copies of this book, just leave a comment below that says “PICK ME” and we will choose ten winners at random. We will start contacting winners on Monday evening. Good luck!