Ok, let's talk film. All right. I will do a Twilight: New Moon update for those of you who are dying to hear insight from me. Ok, the one person out there. A couple things to look at regarding the inside track here. The replacement of director Catherine Hardwick was no surprise to me. Once Twilight made money, they handed over the direction to a director with some experience working with special effects. New Moon has werewolf transformations apparently. They hired Chris Weitz who incidentally was hired for the Golden Compass as a cheap hire. Now he's the professional hire for New Moon. Go figure, it's Hollywood. Golden Compass was a very bad film. Weitz did direct "About a Boy" with Hugh Grant, a film which I liked. So he does have talent. So hopefully this will be a good fit for the Twilight Saga. Well here's the thing anyway.
It doesn't matter if he's the perfect fit for the series or not. He will be replaced after New Moon anyway. Why you ask? Well because once filming is done on New Moon, the actors must go right into filming the third book in the series, Eclipse. They don't have time to wait for the director to finish post production. They will hire another director and do principal photography back to back. While one director is in post production, the other is lensing.
That's the way Harry Potter does it. The HP series has only on two occasions had the same director twice. Chris Columbus on the first two and now David Yates for the final three. During HP's middle years they hired a new director each time. The reason for this kind of constantly replacing with movie sagas is to prevent the actors' to age too much in front of your eyes.
So there is a huge downside to this. Inconsistency in the quality of the product is number one here. If you know a little of the Harry Potters, you will know that the 3rd in the series, directed by Alfonso Cuaron is the best one. The others lack creativity. This is what will happen with the Twilight films. You will have one that is better than the others. That will be due not to the quality of the book, but to the choice of director. The best director will make the best Twilight film. Period. We will just have to see what happens. But one film will be really good and the others will just be ok, like Twilight is. It's just ok.
This is an actual concern I found online by a Twilight fan.
In the book, Bella hears his voice, right? She hallucinates. When she’s in danger, his voice comes out of nowhere, in her mind, very realistic (and usually “velvety”). So, there are a few things to consider:
1) Edward is gone for the duration of at least half of the story. It’s painful, but it’s kind of important. You can’t just change the story to get more Edward time.
2) Even though he’s gone, he must remain present for the moviegoer… because he’s always present for Bella.
3) We can’t just not see Edward for half the movie.
4) A voice in Bella’s head, we think, runs the risk of being very, very goofy when translated to film.
We have a simple solution: Don’t make him just a voice. Make him a visual hallucination, too. How does this answer?
1) It retains the integrity of the story, which is important!
2) As moviegoers, we’ll experience him as present, but understand that he’s really not (poor Bella!).
3) We’ll get a lot more Edward/Pattinson screen time… good for us, good for Summit Entertainment.
4) Goof factor almost entirely eliminated. Unless Weitz screws it up.
I read New Moon and I have to say that it does have a huge problem of not having Edward and Bella together at all really. Now I can hear studio execs gasping at the top of their lungs at this fact. "What?! No romance in our romance saga?!" Yes. That is what New Moon is about. Edward's absence. But that's not what execs signed on for. That is not what they want the Saga to be about. Kinda like Grease 2 without Travolta and Newton-John. What's the porpose? Well the fans know. It's in essence a love triangle between the werewolf and the vampire. SO since execs don't want it that way. They may not get it that way. They want the Robert Pattinson/Kristen Stewart duo. Their chemistry sold tickets before. The Bella/Jacob romance is untested. Execs don't want that. It scares them. Especially with the main heart throb absent from 3/4 of the novel. Don't underestimate Hollywood Execs, Twilight fans. This is a serious problem.
Will the execs keep the Bella/Jacob relationship in or scrap it? Cut to the chase, as they say. I honestly don't know. They MAY downplay it. They may not. I know the ins and out, but this one stumps me. I have concerns about Chris Weitz directing this, but if Hollywood can make Michael Bay tolerable, maybe New Moon will be ok. Until Later, let's talk film!
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