Jodelle Ferland Joins The Cast Of ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’
More casting news for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse to pass along this day … 14 year old Jodelle Ferland, who some of you might remember as the creepy little girl from the film Silent Hill, has been added to the ensemble cast of the third Twilight film in a role described as “a vampire who has just been turned”. To be completely honest, I don’t really remember this character from when I read Eclipse last year but every vampire movie franchise has to have a creepy little vampire child in the mix somewhere along the way. Kirsten Dunst got her start in Hollywood appearing as the vampire child Claudia in Interview with the Vampire (alongside Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise) in the early 90’s … perhaps The Twilight Saga: Eclipse will do the same for little Jodelle:
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in “Twilight” land, what with news of major casting replacements, debunked nude scene news and allegations of plagiarism against the author who created the franchise. Yet Stephenie Meyer’s juggernaut chugs forward, and as the cast begins to head to Vancouver to start filming “Eclipse,” the third film in the series, they’ll be joined by yet another new castmate. Fourteen-year-old actress Jodelle Ferland will become the newest vampire in “Eclipse,” according to Variety. While there is much speculation about which character she will play — possibly the vampire Bree — all that is known for certain about her role, the report says, is that she will play “a vampire who has just been turned.” Ferland will join fellow new vampire Xavier Samuel, who will play Riley. Though just a teenager, the Canadian-born Ferland is already a veteran, having performed on the big and small screens for a decade. Her next film appearance will be opposite Renee Zellweger in the September thriller “Case 39.” Zellweger plays a social worker who rescues Ferland from parents who want to kill her, only to discover that perhaps the parents were onto something. Ferland also has a role in Joss Whedon’s 2010 horror flick, “The Cabin in the Woods.” With the Comic-Con and TwiCon fan events behind them, the “Eclipse” cast is beginning to travel to Vancouver to jumpstart filming in mid-August. The movie is expected to shoot through October, with production wrapping shortly before “New Moon,” the second of the “Twilight” films, is released on November 20. “Eclipse” is slated for a June 2010 release.
Silent Hill is the only film that I have seen that features Jodelle Ferland but I am VERY encouraged to learn that Joss Whedon cast the young actress in his new film A Cabin in the Woods. That man is a great judge of talent so if she is good enough for him, she is surely good enough for Twilight. As we learned earlier this week, the cast of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse have already started making their way to Vancouver, BC to begin production of the film … I expect we might be seeing Jodelle chillin’ with her new castmates very soon.
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August 6th, 2009 at 10:40 am
It’s Brie, the new vamp that Jane orders killed, the one who’s surrenders at the end of the battle…
August 6th, 2009 at 10:52 am
Yup yup…it’s Brie. She is the only one of the newborns at the end that surrenders and doesn’t get killed. Carlisle says he will take her in and teach her to live normally but the Volturi still decide to kill her.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:03 am
aww and what a cute little girl too. in the book it says bella is so disturbed that they would kill her, and this makes sense when you see who is playing her. yay!
August 6th, 2009 at 11:04 am
This actress is good in creepy roles. She has that ‘look’.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:05 am
Yes she must be the one that surrenders at the end of the fight
August 6th, 2009 at 11:49 am
I remember her as Emily Dinsmore from Smallville – again, sorta a creepy role, but she did a very good job in it.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Wow…they’re moving right along! Maybe they’ll release Eclipse just months after New Moon…that would be super!
August 6th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
I assumed right away that she was going to play Bree, I think in the book she was only supposed to be around 15. She does have a creepy look to her.
August 6th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
ah i remember bree. the crying girl who they turn away as she is murdered by the volturi. at first when i saw her photo i thought sh looks the part for renesmee! haha…
August 6th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Leanne, I thought about Renesmee too!
August 6th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
@Leanne, @Charlie, I thought that too! lol. Hopefully they’ll cast someone amazing for Renesmee
August 6th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
LOL! I thought she was Renesmee too, and then I actually thought about and she doesn’t show up until midway through Breaking Dawn, and she only gets to be about 5 years old.
August 6th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
@Nikki – I think, based on rehearsal schedule, and Rachelle getting canned that they are probably filming the end sequence first. It makes sense since Summit was claiming that they only had the location for certain days. They are probably shooting somewhere snow covered (as per the book) and that location is probably getting prepped for the Winter Olympics.
August 6th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
She should’ve been Jane! Much creepier than Dakota IMHO.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
ohhh, i am all giddy about this one that is the girl from silent hill right??? man, she gave me the heebeegeebees…. that is awesome!!! has to be bree!
August 6th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
She was SUCH a creep in that movie Tideland…ugh..really creeped me out..