'Twilight: Eclipse' Selects First New Cast Member

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19Jul2009

'Twilight: Eclipse' Selects First New Cast Member

Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 4:22AM

Looks like the Twilight series is looking to launch one more career. Empire writes that Australian actor Xavier Samuel will join the cast of Eclipse, the third movie in the series due out in June 2010, playing Riley, "a newborn vampire...instrumental in an evil plot to kill" our heroine, Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart).

Odds are, you don't know very much about Xavier Samuel, and unless you've seen movies like Newcastle and September, the odds are even slighter. It's a notable casting choice, though, because Samuel is the first new face to join the cast of Eclipse, which will go in front of cameras later this summer.

As you know, Summit really, really, really wants to cash in now on the Twilight movies, so they're rushing - perhaps too much - to get parts two and three in production and in theaters. New Moon opens a year to the weekend that Twilight opened to hordes of screaming fans. Eclipse follows about seven months later.

Having three movies in 18 months will definitely keep those fans from finding a new obsession to replace the love triangle between Bella, Edward (Robert Pattinson), and Jacob (Taylor Lautner).

Riley isn't a major character in Eclipse, at least not on the level of the merchandise-selling triumverate, but with production beginning so soon, he's a key piece of the puzzle moving forward.

Colin Boyd |

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