Twilight sequel, ‘New Moon’ filled with drama and concerns before shooting starts
Posted on December 10th, 2008 by Hot Momma
With a tentative release date set for November 20th, 2009, the sequel New Moon remains un-helmed since Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke’s departure. Whoever ends up coming onto the project as director is going to have quite a few challenges, like being in Vancouver by December 15th to prepare for a mid-March production start date. Not to mention the second movie appeared to have little more than a rough first-draft working script.
The fledgling Summit studio’s mad rush to feed off of Twilight’s franchise potential may only exacerbate some of the problems that have already arisen for New Moon. With only a slightly increased budget of $50 million and breakout lead actors to pay more, shoots in Italy, and shiny new special effects, Summit may have to have to cut corners somewhere. It does look like Summit is setting up its Twilight franchise for a potential bad sequel in order to cash in as quickly as possible on its box-office-busting success.
Inside sources say that Hardwicke would have loved to direct the Twilight sequel, if given the license to take her time to make it better than the first, but “it became clear that Summit didn’t have those same priorities.
Good for her for keeping her integrity. Despite all the drama, brutal production timeline, and potential for a bomb, Summit shouldn’t have a problem nailing a director soon because, as an insider put it, “We are in a recession. It’s a hit franchise. Whoever steps into it is guaranteed a $100 million gross. Everyone wants this movie.”
An executive at another studio added, “You’d have to have a very high standard for art, hate the movie business, and hate money to walk off this sequel.”
According to Entertainment Weekly, Summit has approached Golden Compass’ Chris Weitz to direct.
EW also has heard that Summit does not want to re-hire soft featured Taylor Lautner as Jacob. They don’t think he has what it takes to play the werewolf love interest/lead in New Moon. In a desperate attempt to keep the role, Lautner’s agent has reached out to the special effects people who did Brad Pitt’s new Benjamin Button film to see what wizardry they could do to demonstrate to Summit how a digitally bulked-up Lautner could work.
mother f**ers you better not change jacob character because if you do your going to ruin the movie. not that it was to good, but don;t change him ok
dont change the character please,!!y’all heard what the fans had to say. you’ll just ruin the movie. changing the casts will add more confusion.and it’s gonna destroy the excitement we felt for the first movie knowing that the characters will be changed in new moon. if you can make brad pitt look tougher then make taylor look tougher.! the guy’s got abs.!! he’s just not tall enough.! but was that a problem when it comes to changes? you guys made a lot of changes in the movie don’t make us wrong we all read the book and what we saw in the movie was not exactly shown as it was in the book. so let’s say you guys putted a little twist. couldn’t you do that with the characters??? since we all liked him (taylor lautner) to play jacob black. whats wrong with you people???it was such a great book.!composed with great casts. i think stephenie chose the characters for that. y’all show some respect..if not to the book atleast to taylor who was sooooo excited about the line “does my half being naked bother you??” see how the guy loves his role?? you’re offensive.he was not enough?? damn the movie was NOT enough.!! we are all expecting twilight to be sooo according to to the book but what we saw are different from what we have read. we are not expecting for a better jacob. WE ARE EXPECTING TAYLOR LAUTNER.
I’m reading new moon now and I totAlly agree Taylor is perfect for Jacob I think he has really good chemestry with kristen Stewart too
it would be a really bad idea to get a different guy to play jacob. i mean, they got one guy that matched the book perfectly, and now they’re gonna chang it. seriously, are they idiots??
They are stupid if they change ANY of the actors, but in the case they do change taylor they could cast steven strait
YOU BETTER NOT CHANGE ANY CHARATERS YOU MFERS!!!!! I HOPE THE MOVIE WILL BE AWESOME WHEN I SEE IT!!!!!!!
I love Robert so much and like Taylor too.
well i heard they finalized that taylor will be playing jacob
but if they really did change characters, then they would piss the fans off by changing after the first movie. my MAIN concern is if the are filming the 4th book. does anybody have any clue if they are filming Breaking Dawn, I heard they are leaning to “no” because its too intense.
i hope they do, but i just cannot wait until New Moon comes out, that one was my favorite part, because Bella and Edward’s relationship is put to the test, along with Bella’s and Jacob’s friendship.
I just hope that you guys don’t change any charactors there all so good! It’s amazing movie don’t let it go down now!!!
I agree changing characters is more annoying then anything else I mean…theres nothing worse then watching a sequel and all your main characters you’ve come to love have been chopped and changed…I really think that Taylor will do a great job and at least hes the right age…Jacob in the story isn’t even buff it says he tall, lean and muscley so he really has the full package. Face it he had to stay. I’m interested to see how they go with this new movie, the chemistry between Bella and Jacob. I love Edward hes so sweet but Jacob is fun and totally opposite to Edward. It should be interesting.
they madee the right choice keeping jacob!
without him the movie would of suckedd!
we are so happy!!!
bye…!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!team edward
team jacob !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Movie Wont Be Half As Good I Doubt Without Catherine Hardwick!
NOOOOOOO!!!!!!! We need taylor– Oh wait! That was just a rumor!
HEy guys I just want to update some of you guys about the shooting of New Moon. Were having a total blast with everything. Some of you may know that Rob said “I QUIT” sadly that is true, but then he realized, and understood he was making a huge mistake. Please I am writing a book right now, and it will be out in stores in 2011. I am so excited. My book is called Solar, and if you want Anymore information please email me at minimeball@hotmail.com. YOu all might have realized that I am Nikki Lautner, I hope you know I am taylor’s little cousin. I am 13, and my book is in the publishing process, and I am excited for you all to read my book Solar. Remember in 2011 I will have a book out. 2011
Thanks guys I love you
Nikki Lautner<3