Stephenie Meyer’s “The Host” is currently in pre-production with filming set to start in spring 2011. In September 2009, producers Nick Wechsler, Steve Schwartz, and Paula Mae Schwartz used independent financing to acquire the rights to adapt The Host into a film.The Host,” the first adult novel written by Stephenie Meyer, author of the “Twilight” series. Andrew Niccol will write the script and direct.
Roles to be cast (numerous additional supporting and day player roles also to be cast):
[MELANIE "MEL" STRYDER] Female, early 20′s. Attractive, tall and athletic, naturally tan skin, long dark brown hair, and hazel eyes.
[WANDERER/WANDA] Female V/O. Invading soul that inhabits Melanie Stryder’s body.
[JAMIE STRYDER] Male, 14-16. shaggy black curly hair, chocolate brown eyes. Melanie’s younger brother.
[UNCLE JEB] Male, late 40′s – late 50′s. Wild beard, eyes the color of faded blue jeans. Melanie’s feisty eccentric uncle.
[JARED HOWE] Male, 20′s. Handsome, physically fit, tan skin, sienna-colored eyes, and sun-bleached hair. Melanie’s lover.
[IAN O'SHEA] Male 20′s. Handsome, pale skin, dark hair, and striking blue eyes.
[KYLE O'SHEA] Male 20′s. Handsome, pale skin, dark hair, and striking blue eyes. Ian’s brother, with nearly identical looks…
A new director has been chosen and announced for the book-to-film adaptation of Twilight series author Stephenie Meyer's The Host, and it is Susannah White.
Per Variety, "Nick Wechsler will produce the indie through his eponymous banner, along with Chockstone Pictures' Steve Schwartz and Paula Mae Schwartz." This, too, is a development, since the last news on the matter from April, 2010 showed no studio attachment at the time. However, the producers remain the same ones who've been on board since the earliest announcement of the film.
Andrew Niccol (The Truman Show, Gattaca), who has written the adapted screenplay for the film, was long presumed to be the shoe-in for director of The Host. However, he's got a couple of other new projects in the works now that may have changed these plans (namely, Dali & I: The Surreal Story and The City That Sailed).
Susannah White has experience directing both television and films, with such work under her belt as Nanny McPhee Returns, Generation Kill (which Kellan Lutz starred in), The Diary Of A Nobody, and Jane Eyre.
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