The Twilight Sequel : New Moon

Catherine Hardwicke, Twilight’s director, was allegedly axed to direct New Moon. Summit Entertainment, which owns the Twilight series franchise, is pushing the second movie to be shown in November 2009 which the acclaimed director wouldn’t comply. She also had some valid concerns of the storyline of the movie.

Jacob Black, would play a big part in the story. She didn’t think that Taylor Lautner (pictured) can pull it off. First of all, Lautner is not an American Native Indian. Second of all , in the book, Jacob would be growing really tall and muscular ready for his transformation into a werewolf and Lautner is just 16 years old. There was also the matter of casting native indians, which she thought, would be a challenge. Another concern of hers is that my crush Edward, played by Robert Pattinson is not part of the story until the middle portion. Edward left to keep Bella safe and eventually Jacob was Bella’s night in shining armor. He kept her alive during Edward’s absence. Basically, a new love team sprung. It would be hard to build the chemistry between Jacob-Bella as strong as the beloved Edward-Bella team-up. She was thinking of not following the book completely – that Edward would be on the story – showing his depression on living away from Bella – which would be difficult for die-hard fans of Stephenie Meyer’s book.

Lastly, she’d wanted more budget for this film, which I think is fair enough. Twilight’s budget was 38M and currently, its gross sales amounted to $138M. To surpass Twilight’s recognition, a bigger budget is just reasonable.

I don’t really care who’s going to be the new director as long as he/she is going to give justice to Meyer’s book. Also, they should fire the screenwriter as well. The dialogues were a little too cheesy compared to the book and there were really relevant scenes in the book that were cut-off in the movie. As long as they are not going to change Rob (feeling close) as Edward, there won’t be a problem in my side(feeling producer.)

A book is still and always will be the better storyteller than a film. I can’t wait for New Moon to hit the big screen though!

Feelingera,

“Writing can never be this sweet, just like coated candies.” -Mimi