TA TALKS BACK: ROME (POSSIBLE NEW MOON MOVIE LOCATION)
TA forum member SJB123 presents TA with her Rome experience:
by Sarah Braasch
The remnants of the deposed Romanian vampire coven, Vladimir and Stefan, now of Rome, Italy, released an ad campaign directed at Summit Entertainment to promote Rome as an upcoming New Moon movie location, as a stand in for Volterra, Italy. The campaign, and accompanying PR blitz, is a direct response to last week’s campaign release by the ruling Volturi vampire coven on behalf of Volterra, Italy. New Moon will be the latest film installment of the hugely successful Twilight franchise, based on Stephenie Meyer’s series of young adult vampire novels.Both locales offer enticing attributes to Summit. Volterra boasts a picturesque medieval setting in the Tuscan hills, as well as the actual sites described by Stephenie Meyer in New Moon, including the Piazza dei Priori, the Palazzo dei Priori, complete with belltower, and the famed alley, in which a pivotal scene occurs. Rome is the Eternal City, with ample beauties of its own, and home to sophisticated production facilities, experienced crew, and a booming hospitality industry.
Rome is absolutely stunning and vibrant, one of the great cities of the world. Bell towers, palazzos, glorious fountains, and vast piazzas abound. When searching for a medieval look and feel, Rome does not immediately spring to mind, save the Trastevere neighborhood, with its mazelike network of narrow, cobblestone alleys and medieval belltowers, if not palazzos.


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