By: Christina Johnson

As the initial buzz of this year’s MTV Video Music Awards’ most shocking unscripted moments dies down, what’s left is the show’s most deliberate newsmaker: the world premier of the trailer for The Twilight Saga: New Moon.  Unquestionably the most anticipated movie of the fall, New Moon promises to intensify the cultural phenomenon that is the Twilight series.

Besides propelling its leads to super-stardom and into the lion’s den of the tabloids, last year’s Twilight, the first in the series, defined the incredibly marketable brand.  The film’s blue color wash, moody music and melodramatic tones gave a highly stylized introduction to the saga.  New Moon, however, has a notably warmer color palette and an even darker tone.  With themes of rejection, loneliness, and suicide, the trailer for New Moon opens with an anonymous man having his neck snapped by a member of the Volturi clan, the ultimate authority in vampire society.

But the film’s warm color scheme isn’t the only thing heating up the screen.  Young fan-girls of Team Jacob are sure to blush as the hot-blooded werewolf finds himself in the spotlight (and without a shirt).  He and his pack of half-naked werewolves take on the ice-cold vamps in an age-old rivalry.

One of the most intriguing additions to the cast is 15-year-old Dakota Fanning.  There is no trace of the charming, golden-haired little girl that America became familiar with in years past.  Instead, we find a somber and sadistic villainess.  Fanning plays a statuesque Jane, with crimson eyes and an evil smirk, giving us a peek at the sure-to-be wicked character.

Pleasing every fan of the guilty pleasure of the decade is a tall task, but the action-packed trailer is beyond promising.  Every dog has its day, and in New Moon, it is the werewolves’ time.