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Director Talk For The Final TWILIGHT Film(s) Begins!?

Published at:  Mar 16, 2010 11:20:47 AM CDT


Merrick here...



Entertainment Weekly says that Summitt is now looking to find a director for BREAKING DAWN, the last big-screen installment of THEW TWILIGHT SAGA.

EW's sources say that...

...the studio has reached out to at least three top-notch directors, including Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation), Gus Van Sant (Milk), and Bill Condon (Dreamgirls) to gauge their interest in what is likely to be two movies.


..per THIS WRITE-UP at ew.com.

I'm all for shooting for the stars on stuff like this. But, given the nature of the TWILIGHT films, I'm not sure any advanced level of "direction" is actually required here. So far, all of these have felt pretty much "point and shoot" to me. Maybe that trend will change with David Slade's forthcoming ECLIPSE. We'll see...



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  • Mar 16, 2010 11:27:19 AM CDT

    no subject

    by rectumfire

    Let's get this crap over with as fast as possible.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 11:28:13 AM CDT

    Thank god

    by erichaislar

    This will all be over soon.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 11:28:26 AM CDT

    Over so soon? Oh what a shame

    by photoboy

    At least we won't have to put up with this shit for much longer.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 11:28:59 AM CDT

    I am so excited for this

    by mc_dlyte

    As much as I am excited for prostate cancers


    http://tinyurl.com/ykjxpll

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  • Mar 16, 2010 11:28:59 AM CDT

    HAHAHAHAHAHA

    by erichaislar

    none of those directors would go near this bile.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 11:29:39 AM CDT

    Greatest fan art of all time!

    by erichaislar

    http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/03/500x_bats.jpg remove the spaces

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  • Mar 16, 2010 11:31:50 AM CDT

    YOU MEAN THEY'RE STILL MAKING THE NEXT ONE??!!??? DAMMIT!!!!!!!

    by gruemanlives

  • Mar 16, 2010 11:32:33 AM CDT

    cool

    by sith_rising

    just finished Eclipse and starting Breaking Dawn.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 11:32:40 AM CDT

    I still like Devin's Cronenberg pick. MAKE IT HAPPEN.

    by turketron_2

    Make it as batshit is the actual book is, you twats! Werewolves falling in love with infants! Vampire C-section using their teeth! Disturbingly brutal human-vampire intercourse! Violent spine-snappingly strong fetus!

    None of this will come to be though... and I'll avoid this plague like I have the other movies.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 11:33:43 AM CDT

    Cronenberg!

    by stovetopstuffin'

    Yes! I will pay to see Cronenberg direct it!

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  • Mar 16, 2010 11:34:07 AM CDT

    surely Tommy Wiseau is the one director

    by therootstheroots

    to bring depth to this series.

    say waa?

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  • Mar 16, 2010 11:45:37 AM CDT

    Why 2 movies?

    by hervoyel

    Where the Harry Potter movie is concerned you can at least look at the giant fucking book and wrap your head around the justification for a two movie split but two movies for this is like the same weak cash grab without even that paper-thin pretense. Making this into two movies is like when that long thing dump you take breaks in half part of the way out of your ass.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 11:49:04 AM CDT

    Hahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

    by kwisatzhaderach

    JJ Abrams, Bay, McG - more their type of material I would say.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 11:49:14 AM CDT

    that's a good point

    by dnagussie

    Okay from reading the CHUD article a while back about how bizarre the story of the 4th book is, I honestly think Cronenberg is a seriously good choice. But they'll end up with some sophomore director trying to establish some credibility. The best director they have a shot at getting is friggin Brett Ratner, and even that's a stretch.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 11:49:28 AM CDT

    Reminds me of Spidey-reboot director "talks"

    by bass ackwards

    Where they had this list of no chance in hell guys, and then signed the guy who directed 500 Days. I guess they just like magazines to publish articles like this so they can pretend the project has some kind of distinguished pedigree.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 11:51:32 AM CDT

    Hire Gus Van Saint, and you'll get ALL male cast shirtless

    by ricarleite2

    ... on every single fucking frame of this film.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 11:54:16 AM CDT

    LARS VON TRIER!!!!!!!!!

    by alice133

    i would actually go and see it. well maybe.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 11:55:05 AM CDT

    AICN - Hit Count Whoring. No one here cares about Twilight.

    by hint_of_smegma

    So ffs, make AICN a cool place we can come that we DON'T have that fucking insult thrown in our faces. I know it generates traffic for you but fucking hell - just post the occasional article where you include the words "anal" and "gaping". You'll get the same amount if hits and morally have taken the higher ground. This shit is too much, too far and too fucking often. Scholars of the future will point to found pictures of that douchebag Pattinson and his moody unibrow and say "that, that is where their civilisation ended".

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  • Mar 16, 2010 11:56:39 AM CDT

    two movies?

    by knowthyself

    I heard this book is dull and has no plot, tension, or even a climax. You'd do it a favor to cut out half of its useless content.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 11:59:41 AM CDT

    No, no, you guys, you should be VERY excited for this film :)

    by frozen01

    It's going to be severely f*cked up. The plot of the last book is sooooooo insane it might actually be worth a view. I'm serious. Go Google a synopsis of Breaking Dawn. I want every braindead tween who has fueled this monster to see this movie so that hopefully the images of Edward gnawing open Bella's womb will wake them up to what they've been supporting all this time.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 12:00:13 PM CDT

    I can see Condon,

    by idrinkyourmilkshake

    But Sofia? seems too low-brow, and Gus? That's just bizarre! (Now ,Condon is pretty awesome in my book, but this IS a vampire flick, and he has said he liked monster films,so...)

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  • Mar 16, 2010 12:00:24 PM CDT

    Off all the movie news this site could be posting...

    by bodacious_crumb

    ...and we get this horseshit.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 12:01:36 PM CDT

    knowthyself

    by frozen01

    Oh, the book has a "plot". It is far from dull... and I don't mean that in a good way. Freaking disturbing as hell. Again, not in a good way.
    A climax? Yeah, not so much.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 12:02:14 PM CDT

    If 50% of the book...

    by canuck815

    is this nasty fucking pregnant shit (read: the stuff that could actually make this franchise interesting), what do they intend to bloat these two movies with? Oh, right, shirtless Taylor Lautner. Figures.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 12:04:41 PM CDT

    Yes on Cronenberg

    by yoyodynepropulsionsystems

    If he is at the helm, directing Team Edward tearing open a Va-JJ with his teeth only to have the gooey baby be lusted after by a werewolf, I am there.

    But in all seriousness, supporting these films is a fucking challenge not just because of how bad they suck, but knowing how the LDS/Mormon religion indoctrinates its women into perpetual sexist insanity, this story does nothing but reinforce this shit. I'm usually pretty pluralistic when it comes to religion, but women are born into bullshit with some of the basic tenets, and I just can't get past it.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 12:09:21 PM CDT

    Cronenberg will never be hired for this....

    by bodacious_crumb

    The tweens wouldn't be able to get in.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 12:09:29 PM CDT

    It's time for Verhoeven!!

    by guy grand

    Bring in Jan DeBont again as his DP and turn this into one of Verhoeven's earlier Dutch-kind of efforts where the werewolves gang-rape Edward and Kristen Stewart defecates on the hospital floor after giving birth to a vampire. Let loose the madness that once was Verhoeven!

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  • Mar 16, 2010 12:18:50 PM CDT

    David Linch.

    by ultimarex

    If you're going to go batshit crazy, get the professional. Accept no substitutes.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 12:21:01 PM CDT

    Hint_of_Smegma

    by mc_dlyte

    A number one search that brings peoples to my site is: anal fuck child

    is sad but true

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  • Mar 16, 2010 12:22:11 PM CDT

    oh

    by mc_dlyte

    and the searches are all from south east asia countrys

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  • Mar 16, 2010 12:27:47 PM CDT

    Why any quality director with any kind of self respect

    by randomwordrandomword

    would sign on to a crappy franchise and make a movie that is guaranteed to be shit is beyond me.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 12:49:12 PM CDT

    Gus Van Saint + Twilight saga =

    by ricarleite2

    ... that fake TV show from Bruno, than ends with a penis swinging back and forth.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 12:49:34 PM CDT

    Wow

    by that__said

    They're really cranking these things out fast.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 1:00:41 PM CDT

    THAT__SAID

    by acappellaman

    You're absolutely right, and for good reason. Twilight has the shelf life of a banana in a paper bag. They all know they need to cash in on this puppy while it's hot and before the drooling fans realize what crap the series is. Some day all these people will look back at Twilight and realize this. It'll be the butt of THEIR jokes as well then - not just ours.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 1:05:52 PM CDT

    Oh, and about New Moon...

    by acappellaman

    We all know very well they're going to water down the gruesome elements of the book - cut-aways and implied gore/violence. They'll find a way - any way - to keep it at PG-13. The most we'll get from the birthing scene is a single drop of blood hitting a wall or floor, and maybe shadows on the walls of the rest. We won't get what we SHOULD see.

    And the ending of the book TOTALLY chickens out. It actually builds up to a promising climax, but its balls drop off and roll down a hill into icy cold water. It ends with a dull, meaty thud.

    And yes, I have read the series - I had to see what my wife was going crazy about. Many moments of promise, no payoff. Just lots of staring into eyes and sniffing each other's breath. Whatever.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 1:06:25 PM CDT

    SORRY - I meant Breaking Dawm!

    by acappellaman

    Not New Moon... brain fart...

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  • Mar 16, 2010 1:06:59 PM CDT

    Breaking DawN, dammit!

    by acappellaman

    Stupid clumsy fingers.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 1:22:13 PM CDT

    What is Twilight?

    by fiester

    Is it some kind of new social networking website?

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  • Mar 16, 2010 1:23:06 PM CDT

    HAHAHAHAHAHAH Good Fuckin Luck You Shmucks!!!

    by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks

    I for one am hoping they get a convicted Peadophile to direct. My vote goes to either Roman Polanski or Victor Salva.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 1:25:35 PM CDT

    Why not just try for Scorcese, Tarantino or Ang Lee?

    by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks

    If you're gonna live in the dream world, ya might as well dream big!

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  • Mar 16, 2010 1:27:15 PM CDT

    I hear Uwe Boll is available

    by mr_incredible

    Make it happen, Summit Entertainment!

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  • Mar 16, 2010 1:34:30 PM CDT

    Sex in the City holds more appeal than this emo shit.

    by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks

    and I fuckin hate Seabiscuit face. Cougars? More like fucking Mutton. Dammit, got myself started on SJP slander and am unable to stop. SJP was great as Hidalgo. SJP once played Dan Ackroyd's stunt nose in Nuthin But Trouble. The last time she sneezed an oompa loompa fell out..... This rant is officially over. Good day...

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  • Mar 16, 2010 1:36:00 PM CDT

    Even Alan Smithee is to good for this excrement.

    by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks

  • Mar 16, 2010 1:42:03 PM CDT

    Direction was the only good thing about the Twilight flicks

    by tall_boy66

    The first one while it did look pretty cheap at times still had a bit of handheld indie docudrama style to it and the scenery sure was pretty. The second one was a lot more polished and at least had some neat visual tricks - ie. the fight at the end/Bella's dream at the start, and the nifty little aside of the vampire elevator music. There are a lot of things that are wrong with the Twilight movies, but the direction isn't of the "point and shoot" variety, but, of course, this statement comes from Merrick who wouldn't know anything about good filmmaking if it kicked him in the teeth.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 1:43:46 PM CDT

    Sofia Coppola

    by mrpoop

    Didn't Bill Murray rip into her saying she really didn't know what she was doing on the movie set of Lost in Translation and other people really directed the film?

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  • Mar 16, 2010 1:52:16 PM CDT

    Why does this post seem...

    by jaka

    ...like it's meant to be a joke? Huh. Odd.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 1:53:16 PM CDT

    werner herzog

    by therootstheroots

    and i would see it. or terrence malick

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  • Mar 16, 2010 2:04:03 PM CDT

    fucken hell...

    by blckmgk13

    how many more of these shit films must we endure? I have not and will not watch this crap, and I cannot wait to no longer be bombarded by the media that goes with it.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 2:14:08 PM CDT

    Twilight can go to Hell!

    by blackbriar

    Just Awful films, Just make it and we'll never hear or see those dumb movies ever again!

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  • Mar 16, 2010 2:26:11 PM CDT

    Steven Spielberg said no

    by mattmanreturns

  • Mar 16, 2010 2:44:58 PM CDT

    Point and Shoot?

    by josh0rama

    Seriously? I don't care how boring these movies are, the work of shooting them should never be simplified to something like "point and shoot". If that's the case Merrick why don't you direct Breaking Dawn. Let's see how your point and shoot version turns out. Even the most basic student film requires a lot more hard work than that. http://www.vimeo.com/joshmitchell

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  • Mar 16, 2010 2:45:19 PM CDT

    Shit on Toast

    by themagicalhornofguntata

    That's the best description I can give on the whole Twilight thing. One-dimensional crap.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 3:12:44 PM CDT

    Sofia sucks ass!

    by rubiks doob

    Watch the Lost in Translation DVD and tell me you don't get the sneaking suspicion that Spike Jonze ghost directed that movie. Then watch Marie Antoinette and tell me you still don't at least wonder a bit...

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  • Mar 16, 2010 3:13:39 PM CDT

    Saw the first one recently

    by damned-dirty-ape

    Thought it was shit. Didn't think the direction was too bad, but the acting is fucking terrible. Couldn't finish the second one. Saw the trailer for the third one the other day. They made Dakota Fanning act badly! How fucking bad does something have to be to make Dakota Fanning act badly?? Vampires in daylight aren't vampires.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 3:13:49 PM CDT

    Too bad Ed Wood is dead

    by sonny_williams

    But seriously folks... my wife loves her vampire stories, LOVES them. Anne Rice, True Blood, she eats 'em up. When TWILIGHT first came to Showtime we DVR'ed it. Couple of days later I said something about watching it, she told me she started watching it and couldn't make it to the end before she stopped and erased it! Said it made her laugh out loud, and not in a good way.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 3:15:09 PM CDT

    WTF??

    by riff_randell

    What is all this talk about c-section by gnawing and babies being lust by werewolves? Blech! I am so glad I never got into this shit, not like I would have anyways, I'm not a teenybopper (And TwiMoms, really?) But this is pure shit! This is what get teens off nowadays? Yuck. I'll keep my Hammer movies and Italian horror, TVM.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 3:16:17 PM CDT

    Damn

    by riff_randell

    Meant to say 'being lusted after.' I am so disgusted I can barely type.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 3:17:24 PM CDT

    Why would any director worth their salt waste time on this

    by colt19801980

    Oh, because they back a dump truck full of money up to your house.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 3:20:03 PM CDT

    Sophia Coppola didn't direct LIT?

    by colt19801980

    Can someone provide a source for this story instead of pulling it out of their ass?

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  • Mar 16, 2010 3:46:56 PM CDT

    PASCAL LAUGHIER!!

    by spud mcspud

    Failing that, the sick fuck who directed A SERBIAN FILM...

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  • Mar 16, 2010 3:48:56 PM CDT

    CLIVE BARKER!!

    by spud mcspud

    And have Edward and Jacob go for each other. Leaving that moon-faced emo stoner weeping into what's left of her career. Then fade onto Bryce Dallas Howard and Dakota Fanning laughing at what's become of Kristen "one bowl or two?" Stewart and her ridiculous weed habit...

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  • Mar 16, 2010 3:50:38 PM CDT

    themagicalhornofguntata - ONE DIMENSIONAL??

    by spud mcspud

    You're being too kind. "One dimensional" kind of indicates that this movie is in some way understandable. It really isn't...

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  • Mar 16, 2010 3:51:48 PM CDT

    DAVID SLADE - YOU FUCKING WHORE!!

    by spud mcspud

    From HARD CANDY and 30 DAYS OF NIGHT to this?

    I hope that truckload of money was worth whoring away the rest of your career, you spectacular fucking sell-out. You'll NEVER be taken seriously again...

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  • Mar 16, 2010 3:52:31 PM CDT

    Um...yeah. Sofia Coppola DID do Lost in Translation

    by the_patriot

    Any copy of the dvd can confirm this without the need for any ass pulling. Or simply...GIYF. And why in the fuck are we discussing who is "directing" these piece of shit movies anyway?

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  • Mar 16, 2010 3:52:52 PM CDT

    Oh, and Harry?

    by spud mcspud

    Any more TWILIGHT stories and we're BOTH gonna start menstruating, Big Red. What about a story that's actually COOL? That TRON set visit - now THAT is Cool News... ;D

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  • Mar 16, 2010 4:01:30 PM CDT

    Fuck David Slade, hack extraordinaire

    by colt19801980

    on the other hand, he must have made a SHIT TON of money off that movie

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  • Mar 16, 2010 4:03:42 PM CDT

    Sonny_Williams

    by frozen01

    I eat up anything with vampires, too, even the crappy shit like Moonlight and Kindred: the Embraced (oh that TV show was horrible but I loved it just the same). Interview with the Vampire/Anne Rice, True Blood, the Sookie Stackhouse novels, Christopher Pike's the Last Vampire when I was younger, Bram Stokers Dracula, I love it all!
    I somehow made it through all the Twilight books, still to this day do not know how I did it. They're garbage. The movie (I've only seen the first), believe it or not, is worse! My friend and I had to get stone drunk to make it all the way through, and there were times we were literally rolling on the ground in fits of laughter.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 4:08:11 PM CDT

    so either a homo or a woman?

    by unabombasticklemeelmo

    this is basically admitting they're just making a movie for penis enthusiasts in general

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  • Mar 16, 2010 4:22:44 PM CDT

    frozen01 - KINDRED: THE EMBRACED!!

    by spud mcspud

    That execution scene in BLADE, where they kill Gaetano Dragonetti, is completely ripped off the pilot movie of KINDRED: THE EMBRACED!! And no-one I knew believed me, becaue those fuckers hadn't seen the movie!!

    And we now know what happened to C. Thomas Howell after SOUL MAN and THE HITCHER. He's currently in hiding in embarrassment after KINDRED: THE EMBRACED...

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  • Mar 16, 2010 4:26:08 PM CDT

    frozen01 - Laurell K Hamilton...

    by spud mcspud

    Laurell K Hamilton did a series called ANITA BLAKE - VAMPIRE HUNTER. Yes, they're chick lit, and yes, I am a dude, but they were fun throwaway novels that only got boring around book 8 or 9 with the constant "Do I stay with the Master Vampire of the city Jean Claude, or go for hunky animal werewolf dude whose name escapes me?" of it all. The early novels sketch a world that's surprisingly realistic, and a lot of fun to spend your time in.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 4:38:43 PM CDT

    Is this really "Cool News," Harry?

    by reflecto

    Are we People Magazine?

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  • Mar 16, 2010 4:39:43 PM CDT

    And BTW none of these directors should do this shit

    by reflecto

    I DON'T KNOW WHY AICN PRETENDS THESE FILMS HAVE ANY ARTISTIC OR CINEMATIC VALUE. THEY ARE ABSOLUTE SHIT. ANY DIRECTOR FORCED TO DO THEM MUST BE INCREDIBLY HARD UP.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 4:58:55 PM CDT

    Victor Salva

    by palimpsest

    If only for the talkbacks.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 5:17:06 PM CDT

    TWO movies?

    by dvdboy

    Why on earth would BREAKING DAWN need to be divided into two movies? Sure the book is long, but that's just beacause of Meyer's drawn-out prose. The story itself could be told easily in 2 hours...heck, it could be told easily in 45 minutes!

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  • Mar 16, 2010 5:26:21 PM CDT

    Uwe Bolle was mentioned already...

    by richard_christys_unwashed_taint

    ...but why not?
    We've been stuck with him fucking up other properties. I doubt if these hard-up broads, cougars, and Tweens are going to bitch about his shitty direction. This is the same audience who watch these shitty soaps for fuck's sake!

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  • Mar 16, 2010 5:49:34 PM CDT

    Eli Roth for the win

    by liljuniorbrown

    The sight of that smug bastard is enough to make me vomit,but if anybody can "direct" the c-section scene he can do it. Lets just hope that Robert Rodriguez's kids aren't into Twilight.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 5:56:39 PM CDT

    SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE

    by nippleeffect

  • Mar 16, 2010 6:02:52 PM CDT

    Merrick's right - these ARE point and shoot movies

    by big dumb ape

    For crying out loud, the books are literally utter fucking shit. And while I usually try to be fair about things and will say that people are welcome to their own opinions and all that, the TWILIGHT books are truly garbage and anyone even trying to defend them has NO taste or has the depth and emotions of a 12 year old girl just beginning to enter puberty. And as laugh out loud bad as the books are, the movies are even WORSE given how laughably they are made, badly they are acted -- and yes, as Merrick is basically pointing out, horribly and "by the book" directed.So to those trying to defend the merits of film-making or taking offense to Merrick dropping the phrase "point and shoot", give me a break. These movies require nothing more than a monkey behind the camera, pointing at just about anything, while the the teen actors deliver their lines in the most hammy, hack-like manner possible...at which point those with the brains or hormones of that 12 year old girl will eat it all up.Even my high school niece who read the books says all her friends openly joke and mock TWILIGHT now. Once they got to the fourth book -- which is actually psychological study in just how screwed up Stephanie Meyer's mind must be as an actual adult -- they all realized they had been had and the books really were a moment in time, a passing teen craze, that now even THEY are ashamed to admit they ever liked. And that's why they're ramping up production at lightspeed to pound out the last film. The studio and producers know the shelf life for TWILIGHT is rapidly dying and decaying fast. So they need to cash in and do it fast.I just hope the fourth movie is a 100% faithful adaptation and every bit as fucked up as the book because it will be the greatest Ed Wood movie that Ed Wood never made.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 6:26:14 PM CDT

    Should have been called Bi-Light

    by slimbutnotreally

    because its faggotry personified!

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  • Mar 16, 2010 7:39:55 PM CDT

    Hand it off to Nora Ephron

    by joesixpack

    She'll take it

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  • Mar 16, 2010 8:04:05 PM CDT

    Lucas should do it!

    by celebritydave

    he could go from raping childhoods to raping children and divorced fat women.

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  • Here's the article http://tinyurl.com/yjykdlz Dude had to work with a bad script from a bad book, isn't using the cinematographer from Hard Candy/30 Days, and now has his own editor kicked off the movie. The hiring of Slade, Hardwick, Weitz are just producer tricks to fool the restless actors into thinking they might get a chance to act with a "real" director and elevate the franchise somewhat (Yeah I know these guys aren't Scorcese, but they are still above this dreck). Meanwhile, they control the final product with same screenwriter, DP, and editor to give it that sissy flavor that made them millions. I get that these guys are just trying to churn out the same bland crap & make their millions of tween dollars before the fad fades. However, for these producers to think Gus Van Sant would sell out? That's just ridiculous.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 8:49:46 PM CDT

    forgot which comic said it

    by presidentevil

    "it was as damp as a rainforest in that movie theater"

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  • Mar 16, 2010 9:10:41 PM CDT

    If only I worked as a projectionist...

    by ricarleite2

    I would switch the film for Twilight for ERASERHEAD. Fuck the minds of those 14 year old proto valley girl tweens.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 9:15:14 PM CDT

    Twilight Begins

    by christpunchers2007

    Shia LaBeouf, as a young half-bred (half human/half vampire), searches for a greater purpose by traveling the world and making shit movies. Under the training of mysterious ninjas and the help of Morgan Freeman, a crippled black ex-biker, Shia now roams the city of New Moon by night in leather and sunglasses. His goal, to woo over Gotham's teenagers who have been at the will of evil emo boybands for far too long!

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  • Mar 16, 2010 10:35:43 PM CDT

    Twilight Sucks

    by henry fool

    Stephanie Meyer is a bland, unimaginative who work tamely rips off other, much better tellings of the whole teen vampire. Things like Buffy, Lost Boys, Fight Night, the Charlaine Harris novels have all done this genre better. The Vampire Diaries came out in 1993, so it took the YA market years before. This whole trend is just a shallow marketing ploy that indicates the insipid intellect of the average American. Sorry if that sounds mean but I fucking hate Twilight.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 10:38:41 PM CDT

    Bullshit- I don't believe a WORD of any of this story

    by d.vader

    Sofia Coppola, Bill Condon, Gus Van Sant- all Academy material. Fucking bullshit that any of them are actually considering this movie (unless they need a paycheck). This reeks of the same bullshit wishlist Sony put out with the Spider-Man reboot, as if they were REALLY considering Wes Anderson, David Fincher, and James Cameron. Sure, they'd love to have any of those directors, but to say they were "considering" them ignores the very real truth, that it would be beneath them if any of these directors took on this movie.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 11:39:35 PM CDT

    Re: Henry Fool

    by cobbio

    I'm totally in agreement with you. After much arguing, a friend finally got me to read the first "Twilight" book because it was "so good!"
    By the end of the book's first paragraph, unfortunately, I had to stifle a yawn. Her bland, self-important writing style that calls attention to itself is flavor of the month shit.
    I can't say enough bad things about the book, so I won't.

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  • Mar 16, 2010 11:57:56 PM CDT

    Who gives a shit, who gives a fuck.

    by quantize

    bleh...file under 'new to this months McDonalds menu'

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  • Mar 17, 2010 12:54:04 AM CDT

    Let's compare lists...

    by quentintarantado

    Sofia Coppola? Van Sant? Condon? I was thinking more of Lars von Trier, Gaspar Noe, Takashi Miike, David Cronenberg. I mean, how would Sofia Coppola shoot Edward doing emergency cesarian with his teeth? Without giggling?

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  • Mar 17, 2010 1:15:09 AM CDT

    Get Joss Whedon or Marti Noxon

    by victor_von_gloom

    Hell, they're tailor-made for this whole teen-angst vampire shit + with Joss, there'd be some guaranteed humor in it.

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  • Mar 17, 2010 1:18:29 AM CDT

    Btw, A big NO to Sophia Coppola.

    by victor_von_gloom

    Her previous efforts were coma inducing. In Godfather 3, she proved she couldn't act, and she's proved equally inept at directing, also.

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  • Mar 17, 2010 2:01:35 AM CDT

    Sophia Coppola might need a paycheck...

    by blackwood

    And Joss Whedon should be given Star Wars.I watched New Moon. I try to remember when I was a young fag reading, ironically, the Vampire Diaries, and wishing I had two hot vampire brothers fighting over my affection. Those books were awesome. Elena dies spoiler in the second book, then really, really dies in the third. Then is a ghost then comes back in the fourth. But still. They went places and did things.New Moon is ten minutes of slow motion vampires throwing each other across a room in Italy and two hours of frowning at abs. There is no there, there. But I will watch the next one, because these films are fucking hilarious. They should be put in a time capsule so that in many decades we can see how we came to live in Idiocracy. That is if we're not too busy trying to fuck the time capsule.

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  • Mar 17, 2010 2:45:29 AM CDT

    FINAL Twilight films?

    by rupee88

    goddamn you people are retarded...do you think they are going to let this cash cow die? They will be making Twilight Films for 10-15 years if they can get the rights. The only reason Harry Potter ended is because that chick who wrote them is not a total whore. You idiots believed that POTC #3 was the final one there too...sigh...

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  • Mar 17, 2010 4:13:26 AM CDT

    I agree that the films are shit

    by superjim

    But you cannot argue with their success. There's a market for them, lets hope that they use the profit from these to make some decent movies. The worst part about the Twilight Saga is that it could have been decent if it was aimed at a different audience. Vampires with the usual superpowers and some with extras. Vampires V Wearwolves. A set of self-appointed vampire rulers that are terrified of losing their power. There is also quite a lot of mythology in there. I would say there would be a enough content for a decent film/book or 2 if they mixed it up a bit, added a little more and didn't include of the unbelievable teen angst.

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  • Mar 17, 2010 4:53:25 AM CDT

    SUPERJIM

    by spud mcspud

    "The worst part about the Twilight Saga is that it could have been decent if it was aimed at a different audience. Vampires with the usual superpowers and some with extras. Vampires V Wearwolves. A set of self-appointed vampire rulers that are terrified of losing their power. There is also quite a lot of mythology in there."

    They made that movie. It's called UNDERWORLD. And that shite doesn't look to be ending any time soon either...

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  • Mar 17, 2010 4:55:39 AM CDT

    Marti Noxon - NOOOOOOO!!!

    by spud mcspud

    She's too busy fuxking the still-twitching corpse of the FRIGHT NIGHT remake. And she still hasn't been forgiven (by me, anyway) for POINT PLEASANT - which reduced the once-sexy and voluptuous Dina Meyer (Dizzy Flores in STARSHIP TROOPERS) to an orange on a toothpick.

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  • Mar 17, 2010 4:57:34 AM CDT

    I havent seen a single film in this series..

    by emeraldboy

    but I did hear that the cast did not like david slade. and all but refused to work with him, did not like the direction he was taking the series in. and think they tried to get him fired at one stage. the lawsuit was hanging over this series and it got tossed. talkabckers dont like trueblood, but many people prefer it. when the british star of trueblood may comments about pattinson. his life was made hell by new moon fans.

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  • Mar 17, 2010 5:00:03 AM CDT

    I will correct something..

    by emeraldboy

    when the british star of true blood made comments about robert pattinson. twilight fans went bezerk and that true blood stars life hell.

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  • Mar 17, 2010 5:05:12 AM CDT

    get the guy who did GUMMO

    by bullet_time_facehugger

    He sounds like he's fucked up enough to make this shit right. And by right, I mean gross and traumatizing.

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  • Mar 17, 2010 8:52:33 AM CDT

    Take solace in the fact fellow geeks...

    by i am rocko

    ...that in a year and a half it will all be over, the films will be regulated to DVD shelves, and runs on TV and we can avoid them like the plague. In the meantime we have to put up with posters, trailers, hype around the releases, mammoth opening weekends and box office in general and Pattison strutting around like a fucking cunt...

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  • Mar 17, 2010 9:29:08 AM CDT

    spud mcspud

    by frozen01

    The Anita Blake novels aren't offensive like Twilight is, nor mind-numbling dumb, either, but they are pretty boring and paint-by-numbers. Hamilton just tries too hard to have a bad-ass female character and ends up forgetting that she's a *character* and not a cardboard cut out. I'd rather reread Anne Rice or even those old novels White Wolf put out based on the Vampire: the Masquerade clans. If you could find them, that is (I used to have them all, and I have NO IDEA what happened to them!)

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  • Mar 17, 2010 9:34:13 AM CDT

    Rupee88

    by frozen01

    Well, I'm not sure how true that is. The Mormon Wonder wrote a fifth book, but someone leaked an unedited, incomplete chapter of it, she threw a tantrum, and vowed never to release it. I thought she was bluffing (for the same reasons you gave: $$$), but whatdoyaknow, it hasn't been released *shrugs* So unless they start coming up with original stories, which I doubt the Mormon Wonder will allow, they've got nothing else to work from.

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  • Mar 17, 2010 9:38:08 AM CDT

    SUPERJIM

    by frozen01

    "The worst part about the Twilight Saga is that it could have been decent if it was aimed at a different audience. Vampires with the usual superpowers and some with extras. Vampires V Wearwolves. A set of self-appointed vampire rulers that are terrified of losing their power. There is also quite a lot of mythology in there. I would say there would be a enough content for a decent film/book or 2 if they mixed it up a bit, added a little more and didn't include of the unbelievable teen angst."
    Well, they could finish the Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles, for one. No werewolves, but tons of mythology to explore there, too.
    Unfortunately they probably killed any chance of that happening when Queen of the Damned was released, which wasn't a completely terrible movie only because of the awesome soundtrack. Had they actually casted someone who could act in that movie, maybe we'd have some hope. But now, probably not. Even if they were interested, would Rice let them do it? She found Jebus and all...

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  • Mar 17, 2010 9:50:03 AM CDT

    can we get a Vampire: The Masquerade movie

    by the_crimson_king

    to make up for this shit? I've played the PC game Bloodlines, but I can tell you that Vampire: The Masquerade does vampires right

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  • Mar 17, 2010 9:50:24 AM CDT

    *only

    by the_crimson_king

  • Mar 17, 2010 11:06:51 AM CDT

    Make it David Cronenberg or GO TO HELL!!!

    by royston lodge

    So say we all.

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  • Mar 17, 2010 11:10:05 AM CDT

    Acappellaman:Sign the petition for an edit button!

    by royston lodge

    www.tinyurl.com/editbttn

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  • Mar 17, 2010 1:13:03 PM CDT

    damned-dirty-ape

    by asimovlives

    I hate to be the devil's advocate, but read the book DRACULA and you will notice that ol' Dracul walks in daylight fine and dandy with no harm to him. And that's the book that started the whole thing about how we see vampyres today. That sunlight destroys vampyres was actually first put into movie by NOSFETARU, in a complete change from the book. In the bok, the only way to kill a vampyre is by perfutating their heart with a metal pointed object whose tip connects with Earth. That's how you kill a vampyre in the book DRACULA. In it, Dracul is killed with a bowie knife, no less!All that stuf about vampyres being killed with sunlight is like all that business of werewolves turning due to full moonlight, it was invented by the movies, it's not traditional lore.

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  • Mar 17, 2010 1:14:40 PM CDT

    The_Crimson_King

    by asimovlives

    Did you played the game that started in the middle ages and then segued to the present day, because the main character goes to a comma that lasts centuries? I loved that game, almost finished it.

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  • Mar 17, 2010 3:34:22 PM CDT

    Royston Lodge

    by acappellaman

    That's 4 signatures, man. Keep it up!

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  • Mar 17, 2010 4:09:46 PM CDT

    I'd pack Kristen Stewart's bowl.

    by ebonic_plague

    Figuratively and literally.

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  • Mar 17, 2010 6:02:26 PM CDT

    WTF?! They're on the wrong path there...

    by killakane

    Breaking Dawn is the least tedious book of the series, they should follow suit and hire another shooter like Slade who can handle the emotional content (with some micro-management from Meyer) and ratchet up the action set-pieces with a bit more flair than the previous films. For the sake of every poor bastard who has to endure Twilight for their girlfriend or wife; they should go with the likes of Cuaron, Norrington or Whedon.

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  • Mar 18, 2010 9:16:47 AM CDT

    AsimovLives

    by the_crimson_king

    no, I played Bloodlines, the 2004 one that used the Source engine

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  • Mar 19, 2010 5:43:20 AM CDT

    Stephen Norrington directing BREAKIND DAWN??

    by spud mcspud

    I'd be so fucking there, no question - even given how much I fucking HATE this shit!!

    And THIS should be the last shot of Norrington's BREAKING DAWN:

    http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/08/31/lol-how-twilight-should ve-ended/

    You're very welcome :D

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  • Mar 21, 2010 9:12:23 PM CDT

    Something to Think about

    by jpaulie729

    I dont really care one way or another about the films, but just to get some people talking. Let's review some details, Edward is most likely at least 1000 to 2000 years old and Bella is probably 16 or 17. By my calculations, this is still pedophilia and we are encouraging our kids to read it. Then again, Harry Potter has adults assaulting kids, so both of these great fantasy films promote braking the law. Makes ya kinda think about it, dont it?

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