The Host: Watch the trailer for Stephenie Meyer's new sci-fi romance

Twi-hards, start your engines. The Twilight author's alien-invasion melodrama is headed to the big screen

In Stephanie Meyer's The Host, love between two of the few remaining humans on Earth tries to survive amid an invasion by body-snatching aliens.
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The trailer: The Twilight saga finally comes to an end this week with the release of Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 — but fear not, Twi-hards: There's still one last novel in author Stephenie Meyer's canon. Meyer's 2008 book The Host, which tells the story of a dystopian Earth in which body-snatching aliens have replaced most of humankind, is due for its own big-budget adaptation in March 2013. (Watch the trailer below.) "This is the beginning of a love story, and that may not seem like a big deal — except for one thing: This is the future, and humanity is all but extinct," says Saoirse Ronan in the trailer, which focuses on the romance between Ronan's character and costar Max Irons before an alien takes over her body. Will The Host be another Twilight-sized hit?

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