We've met the wolf-pack and been re-intoduced to Edward, Bella and co – now it's the turn of the Volturi.

Summit Entertainment has released five promo pictures of the powerful covern, who will feature for the first time in The Twilight Saga: New Moon.

The highly-polished images images show Michael Sheen as Volturi leader Aro, Christopher Heyerdahl as Marcus, Brit actor Jamie Campbell-Bower as Caius, Cameron Bright as Alec and Dakota Fanning as Jane, who appears to have more than a touch of the Wednesday Addams about her.

Accompanying the pictures is a lengthy discussion of his take on the vampire 'royal family' by New Moon director Chris Weitz:

"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."

Check out the full set of pictures below