Will Fetters talks about how Rob’s participation secured financing for the film, and gave it an “invaluable publicity boost”:
‘Twilight’ star cited in script’s success
BY DENNIS KING
Published: March 23, 2010
His first script, completed while he was studying political science and prepping for law school at the University of Delaware, just finished a Cinderella journey to production and opened in theaters nationwide this month.
“Remember Me” is directed by Allen Coulter (“Hollywoodland”) and has a heavyweight cast that includes Pierce Brosnan, Lena Olin, Chris Cooper and Robert Pattinson of “Twilight” fame. It was Pattinson’s participation in the film as star and executive producer that secured financing and gave the movie an invaluable publicity boost, the screenwriter said.
But it wasn’t Pattinson whom Fetters had in mind while writing the script.
“When you’re a 22-year-old and you don’t know anyone and you’re writing your first script, you have ideals in your head,” Fetters said during a recent press junket. “When I was teaching myself to write, I read ‘American Beauty,’ and Chris Cooper was actually the guy that I had in my head for the cop’s role when I was writing in my apartment in Delaware.
“And when I heard that he was going to do it — that was actually one of the last roles that we cast — that was pretty cool,” he said. “His performance in ‘American Beauty’ stayed with me. And to see him cast in my first movie, that was very, very cool.”
Fetters said he never dreamed his first screenplay, loosely based on an incident in his life, would lure such big-name talent.
Thinking of Rob 