Open Road Films has debuted a pair of new pictures from the upcoming film The Host, based on the novel by “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer and starring Saoirse Ronan.
The big pitch of the film is that humans have become hosts for some sort of alien invaders and their minds are taken over while their bodies remain intact. Melanie (Ronan), one of the few remaining “wild” humans, is captured, but Wanderer, the invading “soul” who has been given Melanie’s body, is confronted with the fact Melanie isn’t ready to relinquish possession of her mind. What a silly girl right?
So, that’s it in a nut shell, but the thing about these new pics is how it’s our first look at Jake Abel (who?) as Ian O’Shea (again, who?). With no information sent to me as to who this Ian character is I went searching and man-oh-man is it a doozy of an issue.
Well, you remember Twilight right? Well guess what, instead of a vampire-human-werewolf love triangle now we have a human-alien-human love triangle and this one might be even trickier.
So Melanie has a boyfriend (Max Irons) and then she is “invaded” by this Wanderer soul thing and guess what, yup, Wanderer falls in love with Ian. Talk about trouble! I haven’t read the book, but my guess is Melanie will get back together with her boyfriend, they’ll get married and have a baby. Wanderer will fall in love with the baby (or “imprint” on it or something) and then invade the baby’s mind and they will grow old together… all of them, one big happy effed up family.
Then again, I’m probably wrong and it won’t happen like that at all. I mean, c’mon, let’s not get too out of hand. In order to find out what actually happens we’ll have to wait until March 29, 2013 for this “riveting story” to play out before our very eyes!
