Summit Entertainment this morning shipped out its first poster for New Moon, revealing a conspicuous shift in its approach to the hotly anticipated Twilight sequel. Gone is the sulky, Photoshopped wolfcake that greeted viewers of Moon's first publicity still, and gone is the youthful charm that so successfully pushed the original film on audiences last fall. There seems to be but one message here: Someone is getting cockblocked. Make of it what you will after the jump.
First, though, allow me the preemption of saying yes, I know that Kristen Stewart grows closer to Taylor Lautner's werewolf while Rob Pattinson goes off on vampire hiatus. But I didn't know that her high-schooler Bella Swan apparently aged about 10 years between the first and second novels, and I definitely didn't know about the simmering homoerotic tension between Edward Cullen and Jacob Black. That's a pretty fantastic revision to Stephenie Meyer's story, in which vampires and werewolves all hate each other. Unless I've got it all wrong, of course, and Bella isn't actually interfering but, rather, is the object of desire? And in any case, does Edward really think he has a chance against those airbrushed abs? I'm stumped.
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