FORKS – The aging high school building, described by author Stephenie Meyer in her Twilight series of teen novels, will be used in the movie version.

And the role of the lead character, Bella Swan, in the film will be played by popular actress Kristen Stewart.

A production crew from Los Angeles visited Forks in late November and confirmed that Forks High School will be the set for many of the school scenes for “Twilight,” said Marcia Bingham, director of the Forks Chamber of Commerce.

The group from Summit Entertainment included James Lin, production photographer, and Dan Bishop, creative director, who scouted shooting locations for the movie version of the vampire novel that Meyer sets in Forks and the West End.

In Twilight, the first book of the series, the main character, Bella, is a teenage girl who leaves her mother’s house in Phoenix to move in with her father, who is chief of police in Forks.

There, she meets exotic and enigmatic Edward Cullen – a vampire who becomes Bella’s boyfriend – and his handsome vampire family, which refrains from the usual nocturnal stalking of humans.