Twilight: Eclipse casting news

It's full steam ahead on the third Twilight movie - even though we've not seen the second one yet, and won't for several months - as the shoot for the next instalment in the saga, Eclipse, goes before the cameras later this month.

The film is shooting in Vancouver under the stewardship of director David Slade (who made the excellent Hard Candy, and the less-excellent 30 Days Of Night), and joining the regulars will be Jack Huston. We last saw Huston in Boogie Woogie and Outlander, and he's now going to be playing Royce King II in Eclipse. His character, according to The Hollywood Reporter, is a human one, who just happened to live through the Great Depression. He should be a chipper chap, then.

Everyone concerned had better get moving, meanwhile. The film has a firm June 30th 2010 release date, and there's the small matter of the fourth movie to crack on with after that, which is due at Christmas 2010. After that, they can all put their feet up...