The Twilight Scoop on the Casting Saga for Eclipse

On the Twilight heels of the official New Moon trailer that made its debut at the MTV Movie Awards, word comes down the online Twilight Saga pike that indicates the casting process for the third Twilight film, Eclipse, is underway. Well, the initial stages of the casting process as a recent release suggests. Although many Twilight reports have it that casting for Eclipse is actually underway, the details of the casting notice that we saw on the Acting 411 blog indicates that casting directors for Eclipse have indeed been hired but it's "likely" that the official auditions for Eclipse won't begin until early July 2009, with rehearsals getting underway in August and filming in September, well ahead of the June 30, 2010 theatrical release date.

Interestingly, the Twilight casting post goes on to state that the Quileute tribe and La Push wolves from New Moon will be beefed up with additional actors for the third Twilight film following New Moon, revealing that the Eclipse casting directors will only be considering Native American or First Nation only to join Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner.

As for the three Eclipse roles up for Twilight Saga grabs in the casting notice, here's the lowdown:

Leah Clearwater: Female, 19 years of age. Seth's big sister, and the only female member of La Push wolf pack: "She is tall and slender with beautiful skin and short cropped black hair. She would be considered gorgeous if not for the perpetual scowl she carries due to a broken heart and her anger issues."

Seth Clearwater: Male, 15-16 years of age is a "tall, gangly-limbed boy with a huge, happy grin, Seth idolizes Jacob." Black hair, lean muscle type, think swimmer type body.

Riley: Male 19-21. Good looking, blond, clean-cut, muscular college guy who falls victim to Victoria. He's in his early to mid 20s and Riley was a newborn that was created by Victoria to act as the leader of her recently formed newborn army. He accompanies Victoria in her attempt to murder Bella Swan.

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