The Twilight series may be enjoying massive commercial success and enjoy a rabidly devotional cult, but there’s still one thing it’s failed to achieve: prestige! According to some hot gossip from EW, Summit Entertainment is trying to rope an Oscar-nominated director to classy up their adaptation of the final book, Breaking Dawn, which will likely be split into two movies. Among those mentioned were Milk director Gus Van Sant, Lost In Translation‘s Sofia Coppola and Showgirls‘ Bill Condon, with Van Sant confirming he had been contacted.
Anyone who’s read (or even just read about) the final Twilight novel knows how far it steps from the Pacific Northwest vamp romance of the first book, with one heck of a birthing scene in store for Kristen Stewart and some seriously creepazoid activity from Taylor Lautner‘s Jacob. Judging from their decision to contact Coppola and Condon rather than hailed horror-heads like David Cronenberg or David Lynch (both of whom have respectively delivered monster babies in The Fly and Eraserhead), the producers may be looking for someone who can make this gothic garishness as pretty as possible…and not scare away those who came for romance. With shooting planned for this Fall, it shouldn’t be long before we get a name.
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5 Responses to “Producers Seek Oscar-Nominated Directors For Breaking Dawn”
Duh, they’re calling other directors just because neither Cronenberg nor Lynch would even respond to an offer like that. Those twitards must have completely lost their minds if they think that two of the best directors on the planet would ever consider directing such a piece of crap.
Not to be a stickler, but Paul Verhoeven directed Showgirls.
They got showgirls and dream girls confused.
Hilarious!
Ha! They should totally just hire Tim Burton, and make it a grotesque it already is…
The movies are probably the most atrocious things to ever be put into theaters and it’s not because of the directors but because of how horrible Kristen Stewart and (sometimes) Robert Pattinson. When you have actors who don’t have the skills and/or the chemistry to pull off a convincing love story, not even the greatest director can help it.
And there’s NO way that Breaking Dawn should be even made into a movie let alone two. The book was horrible and had no point with the exception of the conception and birth of Bella and Edward’s daughter, which was a colossal mistake to begin with. Just tack on the part where Bella and Edward get married from BD onto the end of Eclipse and have it be a trilogy.