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Updates Another Director Discussed For 'Eclipse'
So Summit Entertainment's Erik Feig finally found his director for the Twilight Saga's threequel. It wasn't easy. A month ago, he offered the gig to Juan Antonio Bayona, who turned down the pic. I gotta give it to Feig: he isn't shy about going edgy:
Los Angeles, CA (April 22, 2009) – Summit Entertainment announced today that David Slade has been hired to direct THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE from a screenplay written by Melissa Rosenberg. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE, the third film in the studio’s TWILIGHT film franchise based on the Stephenie Meyer’s blockbuster book series, will be released theatrically in North America on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. The announcement was made by Erik Feig, Summit’s President of Production.
Meyer stated, “I am thrilled that David Slade will be directing ECLIPSE. He's a visionary filmmaker who has so much to offer this franchise. From the beginning, we've been blessed with wonderful directorial talent for the Twilight Saga, and I'm so happy that ECLIPSE will be carrying on with that tradition.”
Feig said, “Stephenie Meyer's ECLIPSE is a muscular, rich, vivid book and we at Summit looked long and hard for a director who could do it justice. We believe we have found that talent in David Slade, a director who has been able to create complex, visually arresting worlds. We cannot wait to see the ECLIPSE he brings to life and brings to the fans eagerly awaiting its arrival in summer of 2010.”
Filmmaker Slade came to prominence as a director for his work on 2006’s engrossing film HARD CANDY starring Academy Award® Nominated actress Ellen Page as well as directing 2007’s genre hit 30 DAYS OF NIGHT which opened to number one at the box office its first weekend of release.
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Hard Candy is one of the most vile films I have ever seen. Pointless, prurient violence masquerading as social commentary.
Shameful that he got this job.
Hard Candy was rather brilliant I thought, and it put Ellen Page on the map.
A director with such promise has given into the machine of the silver screen.
David, why have you agreed to do this? I will pay you 20 dollars not to direct Twilight 3:D
Is Summit afraid of competition if they had scheduled “Eclipse” on July 2 opposed Shymalandindong’s “The Last Airbender”? They’ll cancel each other out.
Although David Slade is an interesting choice… maybe this time the vampires will be actually savage and have fangs as opposed to the neutered, sparkly versions in the first novel.
Hard Candy is one of the most vile films I have ever seen. Pointless, prurient violence masquerading as social commentary.
What, the Nite Owl (though he’ll always be Col. William Travis to me) trying to rape Juno disturbs you?
30 Days of Night on the on the other hand is two hours of blood-soaked vampire awesomeness. If you’re one of those people that always wanted to see a movie where the vampires are essentially sharks that speak klingon. Oh, and a guy gets run thru a metal grinder, what’s not to like?
Does it even matter who directs the “Twilight” movies? The source material is so bad no amount of brilliant could save them. Besides, the movie is the definition of the word “paycheck job.”
Cool! Loving this choice of director. Could get very interesting.
I loved both HARD CANDY and 30 DAYS OF NIGHT. Ben Foster, Josh Hartnett and Melissa George (in an interesting role, not your typical helpless-screaming-chick-in-undies cliché), what’s not to like. I thought the mood — the icy cold darkness that went on forever and those über-scary fangs on looney vamps who didn’t discriminate against kids — was just great. Plus, the ending didn’t suck, either.
@MayBNot
same here! HARD CANDY rocked. I could imagine it’s the OBSERVE AND REPORT defenders who now diss HARD CANDY — would make sense to me. Most (and as we know mostly male) critics wrote their reviews with their legs crossed (which somehow reminds me on the men who bolted out of a midnight screening of Barbet Schroeder’s Maitresse at SIFF some years back. Interesting how sensitive men can be when it comes to them and their bodies… Even if the man who suffers the pain of FEAR of castration is a known child molester…
And yes, HARD CANDY put Ellen Page on the map for me as well and made me watch her films. She did a couple of cool movies and then went for something as artificial and mainstream as JUNO and as boring as SMART PEOPLE. Go figure.
i love everything about twilight! it rocks!