Aug 21 2009 'Twilight' Director Understands Love in Every Monster Language
Now that director Catherine Hardwicke has Twilight behind her, it's time to move on past teenager/vampire romance to something with a bit more gravity: teenager/werewolf romance. From Variety:
The "Twilight" helmer is signing on to Appian Way's "The Girl With the Red Riding Hood."Werewolf movie, written by David Johnson, is a gothic retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood story, with a teenage love triangle at its center.
Hardwicke also has numerous other projects in development at other studios, including Hamlet, If I Stay, 21 Jump Street, and Maximum Ride, though as of now it's unclear how many will involve mummies, skeletons, wraiths, ghouls, or specters in unconvincing love affairs with teenage girls.
Mar 17 2009 Catherine Hardwicke Taking 'MAXIMUM RIDE'
Are you ready to take the MAXIMUM RIDE???? Don't get too excited. It's just a movie about bird-teens and wolf-people directed by Twilight:
Having put her stamp on "Twilight," Catherine Hardwicke is in talks with Sony's Columbia Pictures to develop and direct a film adaptation of another young-adult fantasy series, "Maximum Ride."The five-volume series by James Patterson chronicles six teens, known as the Flock, who are genetically altered so that they are part human and part bird. Learning to fly, they escape the laboratory where they have been housed and are pursued by a pack of creatures called the Erasers that are part human and part wolf.
Man, teen half-birds being pursued by part human/part wolf hybrids (which, incidentally, are more commonly called wolfmen). That's probably the most ride you could ever get. Six Flags might as well give up on translating this one into a roller coaster, because it's not becoming any more of a ride. This is the maximum ride. Bird-teens versus wolfmen. Nothing is ridier.
Dec 8 2008 'Twilight' Director Not Returning for 'New Moon' (which is the name of the sequel, I hear)
Summit Entertainment, the studio behind the recent hit Twilight, has officially announced they will be moving ahead with the sequel, New Moon, without director Catherine Hardwicke. From Variety:
Summit Entertainment has wasted no time moving ahead with the next installment in Stephenie Meyer's bestselling "Twilight" series, "New Moon." But in an unusual move after the successful launch of a franchise that has already generated $138.6 million, the upstart distrib is not bringing director Catherine Hardwicke back to direct the picture. Summit and Hardwicke cite Summit's wish to rush the movie into production as one reason for their split. Summit wants to release the picture, which will demand substantial CGI work, by the end of 2009 or the start of 2010. A former production designer, Hardwicke wanted more prep time."Twilight" scripter Melissa Rosenberg handed in a draft of "New Moon" the weekend that "Twilight" opened. Hardwicke wanted more time to work on it; Summit announced it was going ahead with "New Moon" on November 22, with no director attached. Negotiations lasted two weeks before Hardwicke formally passed on the film Saturday.
Wow, Summit is acting as if Twilight had questionable production values and tepid reviews and its success was based entirely on its prior name value and had nothing to do with the satisfactory-at-best direction. Who's going to repeatedly tell vampire boyfriend to stare intensely now?
