Rumors Abound During Filming of "New Moon," the New Twilight Film

Rumors have been flying recently about the state of filming on the new "Twilight" series film titled "New Moon." The most urgent rumor – for fans of the series – is that filming has stopped because Stephenie Meyer, the author of the series, was being sued by her college roommate for plagiarism. According to the rumor, Heidi Stanton, Meyer’s ex-roommate from school, was suing based on a claim that the idea for the series was hers.

Summit Entertainment, which produces the films, released a statement broadly to various media outlets, noting, "This rumor is certainly not true. Please let your readers know." Meyer herself responded, "There are a lot of things I should be doing updates on-for example, how awesome and successful the Book Babe event was, and how cool it was to meet all the other authors and hang out with them a little bit, and how much I appreciated all the tremendous support from the fans."

Meyer went on to note that instead of concentrating on what she wants to work on, or what she should be working on, "I’m commenting on ridiculous internet rumors so that my publicist’s day will be just a little bit better." To set the record straight once and for all Meyer added, "I am not being sued. No one has contacted me or my publisher to inform either of us that I'm being sued. I never had a roommate named Heidi. There is no professor in the BYU English department named Dr. Peter Benton (though there is a character on ER by that name). And most of all, I began writing Twilight exactly the way I've told people in countless interviews and events for the past six years: I had a cool dream, I wrote it down, writing it down was really fun, so I kept writing until I had a whole book."