Twilight film premiere blues - Fans fail to get their fangs into Hollywood star Robert Pattinson

Published: 02 July 2010
by SIMON WROE

THEY gathered under cover of night, willing to wait an eternity for their prey… writes Simon Wroe. 

Bloodthirsty hordes of Twilight fans set up camp in Leicester Square on Wednesday ahead of the premiere of the latest instal­lment yesterday (Thursday).

Nearly 100 die-hard “twilighters”, most of them female, stayed out overnight in the square waiting for Twilight: Eclipse, the next chapter in the hugely successful vampire film franchise. But if they were hoping to get their fangs into the heart-throb male lead, Robert Pattinson, they would have been disappointed.

Mr Pattinson, who is filming his new movie in the US, was unable to attend.