LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer’s next big-screen project has a release date.

Distributor Open Road Films announced Monday that the movie adaptation of Meyer’s apocalyptic sci-fi novel “The Host” will arrive in theaters March 29, 2013.

“The Host” stars Saoirse Ronan (“Hanna,” “The Lovely Bones”) in a story of one of the last holdouts against an invasion by entities that take over human minds while leaving their bodies intact.

Published in 2008, “The Host” is Meyer’s follow-up to her best-selling “Twilight” series, whose final book is being adapted in a two-part movie adaptation, the first installment debuting this November.

“The Host” is scheduled to begin shooting in Louisiana and New Mexico next February. Andrew Niccol (“Gattaca”) wrote the screenplay and is directing.

In other “Twilight” related news:
Landmark from ‘Twilight’ movies destroyed in Forks
FORKS, Wash. (AP) — A popular spot for “Twilight” fans to have their pictures taken in Forks is gone.

The facade of Forks High School came down this month as the building is demolished to make way for a new school.

The Peninsula Daily News reports a campaign to raise $287,000 to save the 86-year-old facade raised only a few thousand dollars. It was one site in the Olympic Peninsula town visited by fans of the teen vampire-romance books and movies.

A terra cotta cornerstone and lintel reading “Quillayute High School” will be preserved in the new school.

Many thought there was a time capsule in the old cornerstone. All they found was a badly deteriorated copy of a 1925 weekly newspaper.