This sounds like a parody, doesn't it?
LOS ANGELES -- Sept. 11, 2009 — Summit Home Entertainment announced today the acquisition of the documentary feature TWILIGHT IN FORKS: THE SAGA OF THE REAL TOWN directed by Jason Brown, a three time Emmy Award winner. Produced by Brown, as well as York Baur and Peter Cowles and their company Heckelsville Media, the feature chronicles for TWILIGHT fans the story behind Forks, Washington, which serves as the primary setting for the popular TWILIGHT books and films. Additionally, the documentary features untold tales of Forks’ unique history, mysticism and culture.Summit plans to release the film onto DVD in conjunction with the home entertainment debut of the second film in the TWILIGHT franchise – THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON, which is set to arrive in stores during the first part of 2010.
Steve Nickerson, Summit’s President of Home Entertainment, stated, “The fans of the TWILIGHT SAGA will enjoy this look into the real town of Forks, its natural beauty and the interesting people that call it home. We are excited to make this incredible documentary available to Twilight fans early next year.”
TWILGHT IN FORKS offers a tantalizing mix of real-world Forks and the fantasy that makes the TWILIGHT saga so irresistible. Fans will get to hear from the real people living their lives in the town, including: the Chief of Police, the Forks Outfitters’ employee who gets mistaken for the franchise’s leading lady Bella, and the vampire transplant who plays the real-life role of Alice. They’ll also visit Forks High School, hear self-described Jacob’s grandfather tell the legend of how the Quileutes descended from wolves, and see many more of the people and places of Forks. "Summit Home Entertainment is the perfect partner for us," said York Baur, Heckelsville Media’s president. "Our goal with this project was to show the unique culture, beauty, and remoteness of the real Forks to the world, and Summit’s distribution of our film will do exactly that."



Speaking as someone who lives in the Northwest and has traveled the Olympic Peninsula many times, I can safely state that Forks is a boring, run-down, one-horse dump. You can see the whole town in five minutes. A full-length doc on Forks would be like a four-hour guided tour of your own sock drawer.
“Twilight” Producers decided that the “unique culture, beauty, and remoteness of the real Forks” would be best captured by filming the two subsequent “Twilight” sequels in Vancouver, BC.
I guess Forks, Washington’s “unique history, mysticism and culture” doesn’t trump a 40% Canadian tax-incentive-bribe.
As much as I really don’t like Twilight, and as silly as this sounds, if it brings more money to Forks, which is a logging town in an economic slump, I’m all for it.
I still shake my head at the idea of all those teenage girls and their moms in Forks on a Saturday night when the loggers cut loose.
You can sell Twilight and True Blood fans anything related to their obsessions. When media and merchandise marketers see oddities like “Twilight Moms,” it’s like blood in the water. You can sell them anything.
The type of person who will drop $600 (and likely go into additional debt for that amount) to attend a marginally related con about a movie is a money-bleeding God-send.
I am originally from Washington State. I grew up in Ellensburg, WA, Seattle, Lake Chelan, Wenatchee and San Juan Island. Then I came down here to LA to get work as an actress.
What an idiot I was. Can’t you move down here and shoot the blasted doc, movies here??? Plllllllllleaaaaassssssseeeeeeee?
And Forks is quaint little town–what’s the matter with one horse? Don’t blame the horse, blame the idiots who make can’t get it thru their stupid noggins that tax incentives help everyone.
Bite me CA government or bite yourselves because next election you’re OUT.