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First Look of Dakota Fanning as Jane of the Volturi Coven from The Twilight Series: New Moon

l_ef06037af79e4ed8921e3d3fd15c985d Now you can stare at the still image of Dakota Fanning all you want.

Fanning is joining Kirsten Stewart and Robert Pattinson for The Twilight Saga: New Moon and I'll be honest, I almost didn't recognize her.

Portland Books Examiner posted images of not only her but Michael Sheen as Aro, Jamie Bower Campbell as Caius, Cameron Bright as Alec, and Christopher Heyerdahl as Marcus.

Summit Entertainment leaked out the photos to a variety of sites on the internet.

Myspace got the Fanning pic. So they're the big winner. Here's what Director Chris Weitz says about the Volturi ...

"No matter how strange one of the characters is in a work of fantasy, I think you have to approach them as people and then so you start to think, 'They've been around for 2,000 years. How would they interact with one another?' The conclusion was that after 2,000 years you'd probably be more than mildly insane. No matter how cultured or gracious you appear on the surface. And I think that's what Michael Sheen managed to portray as Aro, the head of the Volturi -- on the surface he's terribly gracious, warm, a wonderful host and at the same time he's lethal and frightening. It's also what Dakota Fanning conveys as Jane. She's innocent looking in appearance but she's absolutely deadly. The first thing I wanted to do was put them in a setting that wasn't Dracula's castle. There have been so many vampire movies and werewolf movies and horror movies where everything has been dark and dreary. Instead, their headquarters is surprisingly light and crisp. And the characters that they play have a kind of a tactile reality to them in spite of how bizarre their situation is really. The whole point is not to leave Forks, Washington where everything has really been quite realistic and then suddenly go to a location that completely throws you out of the movie. And the set although it's huge and grand and magnificent actually feels like a real place."

People Magazine will have more Volturi in their September 7 issue.