Looks like Chris Weitz shouldn’t get too comfy in his role replacing Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke. They have already signed on Juan Antonio Bayona (protege of Guillermo Del Toro) to direct the third chapter of the Twilight Saga’s Eclipse.
Summit Entertainment has signed Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona to direct The Twilight Saga’s Eclipse, the third film in the franchise, says Variety.
The studio recently gave “Eclipse” a release date of June 30, 2010.
The Twilight series has ramped up its release schedule like they are worried the franchise will lose its target audience before all the books can be made into movies. And while the first chapter was well received under the direction of Catherine Hardwicke, she was replaced for the second chapter by Chris Weitz. So is Bayona being brought on to prep the next chapter right away while Weitz is keeping the chair warm?
Without even getting a chance to see how Weitz handles the job before he has to pass the baton on to the next runner. Not to say that a different director would ruin or better the series, but there is something to be said about consistency in direction.
Will this be a trend with Twilight? New director on every movie?
Great another Vammpire franshise merchandise lets make a quick buck saga… Words of advise for the young ones… GO RENT LOST BOYS
how come they didn’t pick Paul Weitz?
It would only make sense to pick him since they are film partners and know each other so well. I’m a bit uneasy about Bayona because he is going to jump in to the third movie without having seen the finished second movie.
As it has been stated in other websites, Chris can’t film Eclipse due to all the work he was going to have to do with editing and promoting New Moon. Though I heard that Stephenie Meyer likes to meet the director. I hope Bayona does a great job! Looking forward to the movies.
Oh also they want to get the movies all filmed as soon as possible due to the all the young actors and them being vampires who can’t age.
The Orphanage is nice, I don’t know about this, Meyer can’t write so it’ll be a waste.
i cant wait for the victoria vs edward fight scene at the end of this movie >.<
this is good
now every movie will be different and will have a different feel to it…
unlike all guillermo del toro movies which YOU CAN TELL are guillermo del toro…they ALL look the same (great movies though)
its just kinda cool to have that variety and change as the story continues
So very true.
The guy who directed The Orphanage? Eh…I liked what he did with that movie, but doing Eclipse…huh..
It makes sense to chose another director for Eclipse because of the crazy ass release dates Summit has put in place. Chris will still be working on post-production with New Moon while Eclipse is gearing up. In a sense they are filming these movies back to back, though with different directors.
I definitely feel bias in this situation because Eclipse is my favorite of the series and I like the idea of Bayona directing. There are a lot more vampires and werewovles and action in the third book. If Bayona is allowed to start pre-production in the next couple of months I feel like Eclipse has a chance to be good movie.
And you know, Chris might come back to direct the fourth book (I wish it wasn’t going to be a movie).
Why do international directors with such promise have to always jump through hoops like do a studio picture that will obviously be bad, or direct a sequel in a franchise? Yes, the orphanage was fantastic…but so was hard boiled when john woo was in hong kong…he came to the states and look at the garbage they made him direct here in the US.
A different director for each movie in the a series like Twilight is an interesting idea. The film receives a director’s certain style and it’s intriguing how a different director will craft the film.
He did such a great job with The Orphanage and really was one of the best movies of the year, and was def the best horror movie of the year. Excellent and he will change Twilight from peachy teen movie to a real movie people will actually want to see.
I’m happy with this decision. Bayona’s “El Orfanato” was an amazing movie.
Hmm…a trend? That would kind of be interesting, see who’s better. I’d like to see that, good thing they changed because the Twilight script I read was good, the movie, bad