Last month we got our first look at head shots of the Volturi vampires that will be featured in the upcoming sequel film The Twilight Saga: New Moon … and today we get to check out not only full-size promo photos of those baddie vamps but also a few movie stills from the film. Here are the stills and some info from People magazine:
Prepare to be scared. In New Moon, the second installment in Stephenie Meyer’s wildly popular Twilight saga, readers are first introduced to the ancient ruling class of vampires known as the Volturi. Determined to capture their creepy menace for his screen version opening Nov. 20, New Moon director Chris Weitz has given them custom-crafted blood-red eyes. “They’re all hand-painted, specially manufactured contacts,” Weitz tells PEOPLE. “They’re opaque red, almost like preying mantis eyes. You can’t really see into them. There’s something terribly off-putting about it.” British actor Michael Sheen (The Queen) plays Aro, leader of the Italian blood-sucking clan. Although Aro and his brothers Marcus (Christopher Heyerdahl) and Caius (Jamie Campbell Bower) have been “alive” for thousands of years, Weitz says he “deliberately” gave them a younger look in the film – for which he credits author Meyer. “Stephenie was very keen to steer away from a kind of wizard-y look for the vampires,” says Weitz. “They do look quite young, but they convey a formality and self-possession, which comes from age.” Perhaps most lethal of all the Volturi is Jane (Dakota Fanning), an angelic-looking vampire who inflicts torture on her victims. “She is very strange and very spooky in this movie,” says Weitz. “I think [Dakota] wanted to play an evil character for once.”
I’m sorry …and in all honesty, it’s hard to judge just from photos but … these vamps don’t look scary as much as they look silly. After the jump, check out the full size promo photos of Jane, Alec, Aro, Marcus and Caius of the Volturi and see if you find them scary — or not …
The Lost Boys vampires are scarier than these Volturi. The ‘Salem’s Lot vampires are scarier than these Volturi. The Count from Sesame Street is scarier than these Volturi … I mean … right?
They’re supposed to be like royalty vampires right?
They kinda look ridic, not regal… I’m not even gonna mention how they don’t look like they can even induce goosebumps.
sorry,pictures dont look good.
The guy in the 3rd pic is my absolute favorite… I would pee myself laughing if someone like that ever tried to pass themselves off as a scary vampire… this is what happens when you try to hard, kids. Seriously, did the people making this movie not even READ New Moon… I mean I can understand after 300 pages of Bella whining that one may be a little comatose when she gets to Italy, but these pics look nothing how I imagined the vamps in Italy to look in my mind, for real. Now I really don’t want to go see New Moon!
im liking the volturis modern twist – not how i imagined them – so much better!
ESPECIALLY THE SUITS! love it!
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i agree with some who say that they dont look scary..but that can work for them(as others on here have said as well)because looks can be deceiving..anyway,these are just pics,when you see them in the actual movie ,acting out the story,might seem completely different..
Jane and Alec ARE suppose to be younger!
alice’s hair is all wrong
its suppose to be pixie-like!
not hat head
@ty… she had been in an airplane for 18 or more hours worried her brother was going to kill himself and that the volturi were gonna kill jasper if he came there… she’s allowed a bad hair day, imo! lol.
i was under the impression that Aro, Caius, and Marcus are all supposed to look old, because they have been around for so long…not young, fresh-faced models….
oh movieland, how you ruin images my mind creates…
I think you have to wait to see them in action. It would be hard to gauge their scariness based on a still photo.
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, Dakota is too dang OLD looking to be playing Jane :-/ She looks cheesy in the first pic and the second pic, threatening but OLD.
They look fine. Will have to see the movie.
They sure do love their photoshop.
I am loving the clothes! :D
-meream
ohh mii goshh
the lost boys
that a good movie
hhaa
the leader is hawt!!
no i like twilight too hah a
I think it is a little hard to judge just from the pictures what the movie is going to be like. I think Dakota will make a great Jane and she couldn’t be to much younger because “children vampires” are frowned upon. I cannot wait to see new moon!!
@ FK – Agreed, he totally butchered Golden Compass. I couldn’t even finish that movie.
Ama, Stephanie Meyer does support her characters but she doesn’t own the movie rights so there’s only so much creative input she can have. From what I’ve read, it sounds like she chooses her battles carefully. The filmmakers wanted to leave out the Cullen family entirely in Twilight and she really put her foot down and got her way on that. But things like the exact age of the characters probably isn’t worth the fight.
Jane is kinda freaky, the others…. kinda stupid looking. Maybe they’ll impress me more in the movie.