Kristen Stewart Has Been Cast for Twilight

Stephenie Meyer's Twilight will be made into a film, directed by Catherine Hardwicke.

Summit Entertainment announced on Friday 16th November 2007 that Kristen Stewart will be playing Bella Swan in the feature film "Twilight" which will be an adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's novel. The film is due for production February 2008!

Kristen Stewart first hit our screen when she starred alongside Jodie Foster in Panic Room. She has also starred in Into The Wild. She is currently shooting the female lead role in Adventureland opposite Ryan Reynolds and Jesse Eisenberg. She is also in The Cake Eaters directed by Mary Stuart Masterson. She will also be appearing in Yellow Handkerchief alongside William Hurt and Maria Bello and What Just Happened alongside Robert De Niro and Sean Penn with director Barry Levinson.

She has also starred in:

• In The and Of Women
• The Messengers
• Zathura
• Speak
• Fierce People
• Catch That Kid
• Undertow
• Cold Creek Manor
• The Saferty of Objects

Stephenie Meyer's response to Kristen Stewart:

''I'm very excited to have Kristen Stewart play Bella in the upcoming Twilight movie. She's an amazing actress with experience all across the board - action, horror, comedy, romance, and more. Since Twilight has moments that fit into every one of these genres, I'm thrilled to have a Bella who has practice with them all.

Summit's vision of the Twilight movie continues to dovetail very closely with mine, and I'm comforted to know that my "baby" is in the right hands.

For every actress that has been suggested as Bella in the past few years, there are always a slew of critics that cry, "But she doesn't look like Bella!" (which can often be translated thusly: "She doesn't look like ME!") To this I would like to say: "Of course she doesn't"! Bella is a fictional character, and she looks different to everyone. As is the same with every actor who will be cast in the next few months, no one is going to match up with your mental picture exactly - or mine. The thing to hope for is a really great actor who can make us believe she is Bella (or Alice or so forth) for roughly two hours. I think we've got that with Kristen Stewart, and I can't wait to see her step into the role!''