ABS-CBN denies Twilight remake
Obviously a fake poster, but then again, the entire project was a lie too. Found at the anti-Takipsilim petition page.
Okay, so I found out about this a little late…but apparently, ABS-CBN has stated that the news about the network coming up with a local adaptation of Twilight (which was supposedly entitled Takipsilim) is a hoax. ABS-CBN stated that “The duty editor who uploaded the story failed to check with ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. whether the story was correct and accurate.”
While part of me still doubts ABS-CBN’s denial (for all we know they just got threatened by this online anti-Takipsilim petition and decided to back out the project), I’m quite happy to hear that it was all a hoax. Filipinos already have a bad reputation of being unoriginal and just being happy with copying what’s already out in the foreign market, so a crappy remake of a crappy book was really the last thing we needed.
Oh, and I’m impressed by the sheer number of people who signed that aforementioned petition…not counting the people who just posted to bash the people who got duped by that news post at the ABS-CBN website, of course. I’m glad to see that even local Twilight fans knew that it was a horrible idea.
