A while ago, we reported on a Variety article in which New Moon was seemingly confirmed to be shooting in Volterra, Italy–the place in the New Moon book where the Volturi reside. However, the Tourism Commission of Volterra seems to have heard different news, and just today Luciano from their group shares this with us–

Municipality of Volterra has written many letters to Summit Entertainment with only one short answer (we read it..and sounds like: “oh, thank you..we are thinking about it…”) but has no more been contacted by New Moon production.

I know that Variety.com wrote “Volterra, two weeks in may”. But, the day after, “Eagle Pictures” (Italian distribution) said to italian press that everything was misunderstood by the columnist Nick Vivarelli.

If you visit the website they have set up–they being the group of the Municipality of Volterra, Tourist Office, Bank of Volterra and Fondazione CRV, you can read a heartfelt letter (in Italian) that was sent to Summit, and more news concerning their attempts to have New Moon filmed in their lovely home city.

If you’d like to help them, they’ve set up a petition for you to sign that is fairly easy to understand whether you speak Italian or English if you believe New Moon should be filmed in Volterra. Hhopefully we’ll be hearing more insight into this situation!

Volterra “Volturi Town Blog” (Italian)

Volterra “Volturi Town Blog” (auto-translated to English)