From: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/entertainment/01/03/09/rayver-shaina-deny-involvement-alleged-twilight-remake
The supposed cast and crew of the rumored Filipino version of “Twilight” have denied they will be doing a local remake of the American film.
In the alleged Filipino version, reports said the movie’s lead characters, Edward and Bella, would be portrayed by Rayver Cruz and Shaina Magdayao.
The web reports also said that it would be directed by Cathy Garcia-Molina and aired on ABS-CBN.
These speculations generated angry comments online from Twilight fanatics, forcing ABS-CBN Corp. Communications head Bong Osorio to issue a statement denying the reports.
In an interview on “Entertainment Live”, Cruz, Magdayao and Molina also denied that they were involved in such project. The three said they were even clueless about the reports until the whole thing became a big issue.
Cruz said he was shocked when he first found out about his alleged involvement in the project.
“May nag-text sa akin. Sabi niya, ‘Bro, gagawa ka daw ng Twilight Filipino version?’ Sabi ko, ‘Ha, ano ‘yon ?’ Sabi niya, ‘Tingnan mo sa Internet.’ ‘Yong tiningnan ko nand’on nga. May picture pa kami ni Shaina, ‘yon mismo, ‘yong Twilight,” Cruz said.
Cruz was referring to Twilight’s movie poster where the faces of the original American actors had been replaced by his and Magdayao’s faces.
Magdayao said it was obvious that the movie poster had been altered. She also pointed out that her photo in the poster was shot for her 18th birthday.
“Marami ring nagtatanong sa akin tapos ako ‘yong una wala talaga akong alam, ‘San ba talaga galing ‘yan?’” she said.
She added: “Gusto ko lang po klaruhin na hindi po ako si Bella. Wala pong Filipino version ng Twilight.”
For her part, Molina said: “It’s impossible for me to start shooting that project in February dahil sa February maglalabas kami ng part two ng ‘A Very Special Love.’ So, hindi naman ako nakakagawa ng two projects at the same time.”
as of 01/03/2009 10:29 PM
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I suppose this explains why the link to the news item announcing the remake suddenly went dud. But I believe there were really plans to do a remake, but the negative publicity prompted them to shelve the plan, at least for the moment. But I won't be surprised if some loose adaptation eventually screens in local theaters.
ReplyDelete"But I won't be surprised if some loose adaptation eventually screens in local theaters."
ReplyDelete-> I wouldn't be surprised too, knowing how media strikes while the iron is hot, there's sure to be an adaptation and I can't wait who's going to be the actor fit to become one hot vampire!
Okay, I watched The Buzz just this afternoon and found out that even Perez Hilton...one of Paris Hilton's gay friend "sort of like her own Boy Abunda" also posted the news about the Twilight/Takipsilim news. Here's the link: http://perezhilton.com/2008-12-23-filipino-version-of-twilight-to-begin-production-soon
ReplyDeleteBut anyway, abs-cbn definitely gave a statement (if not really forced to do so) because there really were a lot of negative reactions. They sat the record straight and finishing the issue by stating that they do not plan to make Takipsilim.