DISQUS

Film School Rejects: Stephenie Meyer Finds Love in the Future with ‘The Host’

  • ladyofthelake · 2 months ago
    Might aswell make it while Stephenie Meyer is on top. Lets face it, the Twilight saga will not be hot forever, nobody is gonna be reading those books five, ten years from now. She's no J.K. Rowling, her HP books will still be read ten, twenty years down the line. Hell she's no Austen, Dickens, the Brontes, Gaskill, and so fourth, you get my drift. I havne't read The Host, but have read the Twilight books. They were an okay fun read, not very well written. I can see why all the teenage girls went nuts for it. I don't understand Twilight moms going nuts for it, but to each there own.
  • sarasorrentino · 2 months ago
    The Host was worse than all the Twilight books combined. But with Niccol, it may stand a chance. Hopefully he can take this badly written concept, and make it better.
  • chair876 · 2 months ago
    I like Niccol as well, he did a great job on The Truman Show.
    http://www.twilighteclipse.info/stephenie-meyer...
  • emzzzzz · 2 months ago
    Ive read the host and personally i think it was phenomenally better than the twilight series (although i did love them) and i hope it does become a movie because the book was really good and the movie would be so cool, although like twilight its directed at a more female audience (which would explain why you didn't like it) but it does have some action for the boys and it doesnt have as much focus on the romance side of things as twilight did.
    its a lot more complex and it'd be a very intricate movie with lots of surprises
    it'd be great
    x
  • sarasorrentino · 2 months ago
    I'm female. And I hated it. But you're right, All of Meyer's books are obviously written for girls. Or gay men...
  • Kangaroo Be Stoned · 2 months ago
    And especially Mormon women, regards to "Twilight.".
  • lala · 2 months ago
    The Host was great. Infinitely better than the Twilight series. It will be very interesting to see it turned into a movie because much of what happens in the book is internal.
  • alyssa66990 · 2 months ago
    Coming a literally point of view The Host was far better written. You can obviously tell from her writing styles from book to book that it was something she wrote later in her career. She has grown into her niche and though it still comes from the love point of view like the twilight series, I think this one comprehensively was more plot oriented then character based and flawed like twilight. It will be interesting to see how they put it all together for a feature film.
  • Yaanu · 2 months ago
    The only good thing I can say about The Host is that it's a one-off book. It still doesn't help that it's just Twilight with aliens.

    Niccol worked on The Truman Show? Let's hope Meyer doesn't necessarily retain creative control. This would be one movie I'd hope doesn't faithfully follow the source material.
  • Name · 2 months ago
    Has anyone else noticed that Melanie Stryder sounds a lot like Stephanie Meyer? *cough* Mary Sue *cough*
  • abigfanofthepigpen · 2 months ago
    Haven't read The Host. I thought it was in the Twilight series. The cover art is the same. I guess that's good marketing. I guess. I mean I didn't want to read it...
    But I don't like her Mormon sensibilities. Not that there haven't been some sweet Mormon writers in their time: Neil Labute and Orson Scott Card to name...the only ones I know. But Meyer's, don't know if you've heard about this, but she refused to let Bella and the vampire boy sleep together until they got married. LAME! It's all part of the Church of Latter Day Saints' attempt to infiltrate our mass media and infect our children's minds with their Victorian morals.
    Fuck Stephanie Meyer.
  • sarasorrentino · 2 months ago
    But, spoiler, She lets them have a Vampire baby that bites umbilical cords. Twisted.