“Twilight”…heard of it? Up until a few months ago, I hadn’t. Now that I have, I have discovered that its insanely unbelievable plot, and no amount of garlic and silver bullets, shall not stop it from being made into a movie [read: weapon against common sense and grounded reality] that is to be released in the United States later this year. The female “Harry Potter,” but rawer, edgier, sexier, lustier, Stenphanie Meyer’s “Twilight” has literally taken the world of overly melodramatic tweens, teens and even older woman by storm, who seem to have no problem with plot holes and inconsistencies, but now that their beloved film has been cast in a particularly mainstream light, fans are fuming. For a movie that almost “didn’t happen,” the series fan base is alarmingly large. As long as the film version was true to the sensational novel, fans would be able to sleep at night. Thanks to “Thirteen” writer/director Catherine Hardwicke, there is a strong possibility that the the book-to-screen transition will be just right.

The EW behind the scenes cover story has something to do with that fuming, because us mere mortals that are partially immune to the complicated workings of female love and their vampire-lovers can finally understand, or ponder, what all the fuss is about. The worst way to screw up a film is to succumb to preordained hype; and its legion of female devotees is certainly not making things any easier for filmmakers. Translating a critically acclaimed Romeo and Juliet-type forbidden love affair between a mortal and a vampire obviously raises a few issues. Apparently, the largest issue of them all way avoiding miscasting. As with any novel, each reader creates his or her, in this case her, own grandeur idealisation as to what the characters may look like, and in the process of casting the filmmakers have to pick and chose with as much instinct as possible. And once they have, they cross their fingers and hope like hell.

When it came down to casting Edward Cullen, the “devastatingly inhumanly beautiful” ninety year old vampire, things seemed to have hit a dead end. Robert Pattinson, a 22-year-old Brit, some may know his as Cedric Diggory in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” was by no means anyone’s first choice. In fact, besides thousands of online naysayers, Hardwicke thought him to be underwhelming at first. But when he read with Kristen Stewart, who plays the “honest, up-front, seemingly logical girl” Bella, Harwicke was blown away. In terms of giving the role of “Bella” to Stewart, whom we all saw blossom into a wonder of maturity and physical beauty in last year’s “Into the Wild,” Hardwicke was captivated. And all Stewart had to do was play herself, apparently. I’d pay to see that.

The story goes a little something like this: The outcast Bella (Kristen Stewart) struggles to make friends in her new high school. She’s alone, but not lonely, because she finds that special someone who sees right into her so often misjudged soul. That someone just happens to be in the form of the mysterious Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), and before you know it, the two are swept up into a mystically unorthodox romance despite their alarming age difference. The closer they get, the harder it is for Edward to abstain from mounting Bella then and there. Oh no, wait, that’s another typically adolescent romance. Edward has to abstain from focusing on Bella’s intoxicating scent or his vampire-like ways could spin out of control and he will no longer be able to stop himself from drinking her hot, young blood. If that’s not romantic, I don’t know what is.

Come snow, rail, hail, or, God forbid, sunlight, “Twilight” shall makes its grand entrance into reality come the 12th of December. Check out the teaser trailer below to find out if you are immune to the devastatingly juvenile story, which may or may not just be the hit film for teens of 2008.