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?
Jul 20 2007 Ridley Scott to Direct Vampire Movie
Adrian Grenier looks way different in person
If you ask me, vampire movies jumped the shark right around the time Queen of the Damned came out. Apparently, Ridley Scott disagrees and will be directing a screen adaptation of the incomplete manuscript The Passage (seriously? we're optioning movie adaptations of books that haven't even been published yet?).
[The Passage] is a postapocalyptic vampire story set in 2016. The dark tale revolves around a U.S. government project gone awry that turn a group of experimental subjects -- condemned inmates plucked from death row -- into highly infectious vampires. Meanwhile, an orphan named Amy discovers that she has unusual powers, seemingly related to the crisis that quickly overtakes civilized society.
Wow, a main character with a special power destined to save humanity? There's a story that's never been told before. It's sort of like Star Wars meets the Matrix meets Harry Potter meets every science fiction movie ever made. Guess what, A-holes? YOU'RE NOT SPECIAL. I promise.
They should just make an Entourage movie. Now there's an original vampire story. Hollywood, devoid of new ideas and having sold its soul to the devil, lives in a perpetual state of living death and has to suck its own penis for nourishment. You think I'm kidding? Let E try to stand in direct sunlight and let's see what happens.
