Post by Kaoru on Feb 20, 2009 22:35:17 GMT
A directora do Twilight foi-se embora, e há artigozinho na Empire deste mês:
There ya go.
It's not often a director walks away from a megabucks franchise before the sequel's even started rolling, but despite initially seeming a good match of filmmaker and material, Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke has parted ways with the teen-vamp-romance saga. Rumours are rife, with suggestions she was fired for being difficult. She'd certainly been vocal about her concerns with the plotting of Stephenie Meyer's second Twilight tale, New Moon, in which heartthrob bloodsucker Edward disappears off the scene, causing lovesick Bella to get close to Native-American Jacob.
"You have to do something with that arc," Hardwicke said. "She's in love with somebody, he disappears, she falls in love with someone else, and the first guy comes back. Movies like Pearl Harbor have tried it. It absolutely didn't work."
Furthermore, studio Summit was keen to rush New Moon out, and Hardwicke wasn't willing to work at that pace. Enter one-time Summit golden boy Chris Weitz (his American Pie made 'em a buck or two), last seen at the helm of the ill-fated The Golden Compass. In the final weeks of 2008 he was confirmed as Hardwicke's replacement, and if he's not an obvious candidate (ew, he's a boy), he's at least aware of it. "For fans, this may come as an unexpected twist," he says in a letter posted on Meyer's website, going on to say that he's used to adapting "complex and involved works of literature... To those who doubt that as a male director I can capture Bella's experience, I can only say that emotion is universal."
Then there was the Jacob situation, with uncertainty over the recasting of Taylor Lautner, whose shapeshifting character suddenly bulks up in this story. On January 8, Weitz confirmed that Lautner will return. "It was my first instinct that Taylor was, is, and should be Jacob, and that the books would be best served by the actor who is emotionally right for the part," says Weitz. Weitz is now casting the rest of Jacob's clan, and the shoot is due to kick off in Vancouver, mid-March.
New Moon is due out on November 20.
There ya go.