‘Twilight’ falls on CCC as movie films at campus greenhouse

Popular teen book series set in the Northwest is being filmed in Portland area

By Matthew Graham

The Clackamas Review, Apr 9, 2008, Updated Oct 30, 2009 (15 Reader comments)

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Love-smitten teenage vampires invaded Clackamas Community College Friday, but, possibly due to the intermittent patches of sunlight between showers and hail, no students fell prey to their bloodlust.

Part of an upcoming film version of the popular young adult series “Twilight” was being filmed at the greenhouses at the back of the campus on Friday.

“Twilight,” the sequel to which spent 30 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller for Children’s Chapter Books List is about high school student Isabella Swan, who moves from Phoenix to Forks, Wash., and ends up falling in love with another student, Edward Cullen. But Cullen is a vampire, constantly torn between his attraction to Isabella and his belief that there is no redemption and no afterlife for vampires, so he can’t turn her into a vampire and be with her.

“[Edward] is a vampire, and she’s not, she’s a civilian,” said Peter Silbermann, the film’s publicist. “And they have a love affair, it’s a vampire love story.”

Isabella will be played by Kristen Stewart, of “Into the Wild” and “Panic Room,” and Edward will be played by Robert Pattinson, who played Cedric Diggory in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.” Both were on site shooting at CCC last week.

The film, produced by Summit Entertainment, will spend 47 days shooting in and around Portland with a principle cast of 12, though the story is set in Forks, Wash. The full cast includes about 130 people.

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