The Daily Beast:
Gayle Forman's young-adult novel If I Stay won't be published until April, but it's already being adapted for Hollywood by the studio behind the blockbuster vampire movie. Will it eclipse Twilight?
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The next 'Twilight' as in lackluster writing and shallow characters?
A book by a woman about a young woman that will be a movie directed by a woman. I am glad because it is so rare. Nice!
Of course Twilight was a book by a woman about a woman whose movie was also directed by this other woman. And it was a horrible mess.
Let's see if I got this straight. A devout Mormon lady has a dream about a sparkly vampire in a field. She decides to write a book about this and makes the main character a Mary Sue. She then writes a painfully obvious self-insert fantasy. The book is full of cliche characters, bad writing and plot holes (oh and a centuries-old virgin vampire, gotta love religious dogma in a vampire book).
Teen girls buy this up and it's sequels because "OMG I want a bf just like Edward!" and only catch on that something is bad when they get to the final book which features her shoehorning her Mormon traditions into it as well as a monster baby, explosive pregnancy and a pedophile werewolf.
They then adapt the first book to film which fans of the book go to see to ogle Edward.
Stephanie Meyer made her money by being a talentless hack who just happened to have fantasies in common with millions of girls half her age.
It sounds interesting, and I'd be more apt to read it than a "Twilight" clone.
anything that gets teens reading is a good thing
The next Twilight? I see no mention whatsoever of a romantic storyline, much less one involving creepy old supernatural stalkers.
This sounds like a fine work, but you're not going to have every 13-yo girl and every 45-yo housebound cat lady in the country furtively writing fanfic about it unless they are offered a boy (preferably several) and lots of schmoop.
Always good to know in advance what I want be reading.
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The Daily Beast | Isabel Wilkinson | 03/20/09