With The Twilight Saga officially coming to an end this month, all eyes will be turning to Andrew Niccol’s The Host, which marks the first non-Twilight adaptation for the best-selling novelist.
The first teaser trailer and poster debuted for the film back in the spring, and with its release now only a matter of months away, a new poster has debuted over at Fandango, and we can be sure that a full-length trailer should be following shortly.
“Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that takes over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the invading ‘soul’ who has been given Melanie’s body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too-vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn’t expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind. Melanie fills Wanderer’s thoughts with visions of the man Melanie loves – Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body’s desires, Wanderer yearns for a man she’s never met. As outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off to search for the man they both love.”
Saoirse Ronan (Hanna) stars in the lead, with Max Irons (Red Riding Hood) and Jake Abel (Percy Jackson) completing the leading trio, alongside Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds), William Hurt (A History of Violence), and Chandler Canterbury (Repo Men).
Niccol is directing from his own script, coming off the back of last year’s blockbuster success, In Time, starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried.
Meyer has already spoken of potentially expanding the novel into the first of a trilogy, and given the success of her first franchise, there’s every reason to expect we might be getting more from this world in the years to come.
The Host will be released on 29th March, 2013 in the UK and US, and with Twilight officially over by then, and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire still half a year away, it’s likely that it will be hitting the box office hard in the spring. For now, here’s the new poster.
