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The Host Trailer: Twilight Author Moves On From Vampires To Aliens

Date: Mar 23, 2012 | Author: Josh Tyler | Category: Sci-Fi

Twilight author Stephanie Meyer has moved on from writing about Mormon vampires to Mormon aliens. Her new book is called The Host and even though it was only released in 2008, it has already been turned into a movie.

In The Host a group of aliens called Souls take over the minds of humans on Earth, creating a perfect paradise in the process. Yeah, she’s not exactly going subtle on the religious allegory this time, is she? Here’s the movie’s first trailer…

The trailer doesn’t dip right into the religious overtones but does do a pretty good job of establishing something both creepy and also vaguely tweeny. As always with Meyer the source material is suspect but the film actually has a pretty good pedigree otherwise. It’s directed by Andrew Niccol who made such films as Lord of War and the great sci-fi flick Gattaca. Unfortunately he also made In Time.

The Twilight kids are probably going to love this, but will you? Let us know if you’re interested in seeing The Host in the comments below.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000257160872 Misha Burnett

    Actually, I loved “The Host”.  It is very different from the Twilight series, it’s more akin to “Invasion Of The Body Snatchers” as told by one of the alien invaders.  I recommend the book, and if the movie follows it it should be interesting. 

    • JT

      How thick does she lay on the religious allegory?  The book’s plot synopsis makes it sound like it’s almost the second coming of Scientology, but maybe it isn’t actually that severe. 

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000257160872 Misha Burnett

        I didn’t notice any religious allegory, actually.  The aliens call themselves “souls”, but that’s because they live inside other creatures.  If anything it’s a political allegory.  Invaders come in with superior technology and impose their own moral structure on the natives, and one of the invaders finds herself questioning if they have the right to do that.  

        • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=7307568 Charlotte Chapin Signorelli

           I have to agree with Misha– I didn’t think twice about any religious connections while reading the book, and it is geared towards adults, so it has a very different feel to the Twilight books.  I enjoyed it as something different from the author, though I have to say, the whole time I was reading it, I had very distinct “Stargate/SG-1″ vibes.  Still, the premise was intriguing, the book was an enjoyable read and I think if they can get the whole “two voices in one body” to work and they don’t let the storyline drag (since much of the book takes place in a cave….) then it has the potential to be a fairly decent film, maybe even quite good.

          I imagine the Twilight fans will flock to this, but try to think of it as its own sci-fi entity.  I have hopes that the movie will be good (she first released the rights for a screenplay years ago, so they must’ve gotten it right if there’s finally a trailer)–but still, we’ll see.  As GFR said: this director also did “In Time”, which, despite great trailers, was a huge bust as a film (or so I’ve read–I skipped the price of a movie ticket based on reviews here and haven’t bothered with renting it yet).

          bottom line: this should be interesting, one way or the other.  and the good news is: there isn’t much existing mythology for her to rub people the wrong way over! (at least….that I’m aware of).

  • ChriD

    She already ruined the vampire thing… They should burn in the sun like evil dark dwelling monsters, not sparkle… Women should love them, should be feard. and the warewolfe thing? what ever happened to the full moon, and, one again, ripping lonely women to shreds. I dont want to know how she wants to mangle the alien thing.

  • common sense

    All this lady does is rewrite classics or popular novels some author worked his or her ass of on. Twilight was a hijack of “Romeo and Juilet” and the host is nothing more than theft of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”. This woman isn’t a genius or even an author – she’s a thief, and needs to be called that.

  • Baby Fart McGeeziaks

    What is the religious allegory? It seems more political to me. Sure, it certainly goes along with mainstream LDS/tea party style politics of “OMGZZZ, THE PRESIDENT IS A SOCIALIST AND WANTS TO TAKE AWAY AMERICAN INDIVIDUALISM AND LIBERTIES!!” But I see nothing all that religious, just another shot at injecting traditional values into the youth of the world except this time with a dose of Cold War paranoia.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000257160872 Misha Burnett

    Why all this anger at Stephanie Meyer?  I read the first Twilight book so I could talk about it to my daughter and I thought it was fair to middling as far as YA fiction goes.  Sure, she puts her own spin on the myth of the vampire, but so has everyone from Bram Stoker on.