So, what is the next ‘Twilight’?

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Now that Breaking Dawn Part 1 has amassed nearly $140 million in its opening weekend–the second highest opening in the series’ history and the biggest opening ever for a Baton Rouge-filmed movie–we can sit back as armchair producers and forecast what property has the potential to become the next Twilight-level phenomenon. It’s a tricky prediction as these runaway successes seem to hinge on a delicate balance of romance, action and fantasy elements, and the requisite dash of over-the-top cheesiness, but here are my odds for filling the soon-to-be-sizeable Twilight gap at the box office and in the hearts of Twi-hards everywhere:

20/1

Interview with the Vampire

Yes, Anne Rice’s iconic novel, previously adapted by Neil Jordan with Brad Pitt and, against Rice’s fervent objections, Tom Cruise, in the leads, is in line for a big budget remake. This time, the New Orleans author wants Robert Downey Jr. Will she get her wish? Odds are the studio will ignore her again, see the potential dollars of a larger teen audience and skew the story younger with a cast of twentysomethings and a PG-13 rating.

10/1

Firelight

Mandalay Pictures recently scooped up the rights to Sophie Jordan’s novel about twin teen sisters who discover they are descendants of an ancient race of dragons. Fleeing from an order of evil serpents and living in secret among humans, this story has drama, suspense and teen angst in spades. With the right cast it could really catch fire.

8/1

The Vampire Kisses

Published more than two years before Twilight, if Stephenie Meyer’s books can become a worldwide smash, so can this series, because it has the exact same plot, and it had it first: a 16-year-old girl falls in love with a mysterious classmate who turns out to be a vampire and, despite his feelings to the contrary, gallantly resists a relationship with her to protect her from his dark world.

5/1

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

If any of these becomes a Twilight-size phenomenon, I hope this one does, if for no other reason than the bonkers bravura of the concept. Seth Grahame-Smith’s Jane Austen-bucking tongue-in-cheek novel tells the alternate, comedic history of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy in a countryside overrun by the plague, oh and legions of the living dead. Though the film adaptation has yet to settle on a lead actress—both Scarlett Johansson and Blake Lively were once in talks to star and Emma Stone recently passed on the role—the studio still aims to have this sure-to-be cult classic in theaters sometime in 2013.

3/1

Snow White and the Huntsman

The darker of two upcoming Snow White films, this one has the advantage of having Bella Swan herself, Kristen Stewart, in the titular role as the “fairest of them all” drawing the wrath of Charlize Theron’s evil, beauty-obsessed Queen. No wilting daisy, this Snow White brandishes a sword and knight’s armor to fight for her beleaguered people, should play well overseas, and, positioned perfectly between the release of parts 1 and 2 of Breaking Dawn, could rally Twi-hards who can’t wait to see Stewart in action again. The film arrives June 1, 2012.

Even

The Hunger Games

Opening March 23, 2012, The Hunger Games stars a talented, attractive young cast in Winter’s Bone Oscar-nominee Jennifer Lawrence and The Kids are Alright’s Josh Hutcherson, plus up-and-comer Liam Hemsworth who, as a lanky Aussie, has a similar mystique and accent to every teen girl’s vampire heartthrob, Robert Pattinson. Set in a blood-lusting future where one boy and one girl are chosen to fight to the death on live television, Lawrence stands in for her doomed sister and must battle for her own survival. This film could contain the female-empowerment messages so many critics decry Twilight for lacking. Woody Harrelson and Elizabeth Banks co-star.