This from MTV...
With the big-screen debut of “Twilight” looming, author Stephenie Meyer recently offered up a list of 12 of her biggest inspirations for the wildly popular series to EW.com.
...Meyer heaps praise on actor Robert Downey Jr. and describes “Iron Man” as “the best superhero movie that’s ever been done,” adding that she considers the Marvel Studios blockbuster to be a great model of “how you should feel coming out of a movie.”
But that certainly wasn’t the most surprising project she listed.
‘”This is crazy, but those Saturday-morning cartoons... I was always fascinated with the X-Men,” said Meyer of another one of her “Twilight” inspirations. “I love the idea of a group of people and all of them can do something really well. They’re special, but they’re strongest when they work together. Maybe that comes from having a big family, but I always clicked into that kind of story. And I think that really came into play when I was subconsciously forming the Cullen family. Though I certainly wasn’t thinking about Cyclops when I was writing about them, I think it was there in the layers underneath.’”
See what other things she lists at the source link below.