Controversial news about the 'Twilight' franchise was recently released. Director Catherine Hardwick said Stephanie Meyer steered away from having a diverse cast. According to comicbook.com, "Hardwicke let it be known that she originally envisioned a more diverse cast. Unfortunately, the author of Twilight, Stephanie Meyer, was a little too attached to what she had envisioned when writing the characters." Hardwicke told the press, "I had all these ideas. And she just could not accept the Cullens to be more diverse, because she had really seen them in her mind..." Meyer's reasoning was that she had written the characters to have "pale glistening skin", but considering Hardwicke wanted Alice to be Japanese, that excuse doesn't hold much weight."
