For all the perceived blandness of Twilight (our review) the other entries into the franchise are picking up steam and attention. And who can blame the media for the craziness? The first film generated buzz, particularly leading up to the release, but nothing of the proportions we’re seeing with Twilight Saga: New Moon. The franchise is everywhere from blogs to newspapers and there’s no one to blame for the growing fandom. The “Twilight” universe seems to be impervious to the downward trending economy and everything about the books, movies, actors and characters seems to be a hot commodity.
But alas, I’m already off track. The reason for the post is to encapsulate a number of recent happenings with the franchise. The first was a comment, from the horse’s mouth no less, that Drew Barrymore would not be directing the third instalment (and my favourite), in the franchise Twilight Saga: Eclipse. I’d previously commented on a rumour that Juan Antonio Bayona was in talks to direct the movie and now speculation abounds that David Slade, of Hard Candy and 30 Days of Night fame, has also been chatted up about possibly directing. I’m starting to think that regardless of what anyone outside the fandom might think, this franchise is really starting to get intriguing. Sure, rumours are just rumours but the fact that both Bayona and Slade are even being mentioned in the same breath as “Twilight” suggest, to me at least, that the studio is really pushing to open the movies up to more than just the teen market. And that excites me to no end.
If, I know there are some of you out there, you secretly (or not so secretly) care about the currently in production Twilight Saga: New Moon, the studio has release the first “official” image of the so-called “Wolf Pack”. As with the marketing material for Twilight, I’m under whelmed by the overly glossy and obviously photoshoped image but judge for yourself.
And just to rub it in, looks like I wasn’t far off on the “Breaking Dawn” speculation. There’s talk that there will be a film adaptation of the fourth book and considering the amount of attention the franchise is getting, I would bet that it’s as good as ready to go. I’m just hoping that we’re not all getting our hopes up for disappointment.
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April 22, 2009
Slade has officialy signed on. I’m THRILLED!
April 22, 2009
Wow, huge news on the confirmation of David Slade for Eclipse! I thought there would have been a lot of back and forth there were was before on speculation.
I still can’t figure out why they aren’t keeping Chris Weitz, or rather, how come there was/is so much hub bub about the 3rd director when we haven’t seen seen New Moon – even if the films are being released so close together.
I still have no idea how they will adapt Breaking Dawn to a film. And rumours of splitting it to 2 surfaced as well. Who knows what will happen!