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Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily is breaking the story that the director has finally been chosen for “Eclipse”:I can confirm that Summit Entertainment is telling Hollywood privately that Juan Antonio Bayona will direct Eclipse. It’s a very out-of-the-box choice for the 3rd movie in the “Twilight Saga” series of Stephenie Meyer vampire novels being hurried to the big screen by the start-up studio. (I guess it doesn’t matter that other sources tell me Bayona hasn’t yet met Stephenie, huh?) Known as a horror wunderkjind and Guillermo Del Toro protege, the age 33 Bayona screened his Spanish language Gothic mystery El Orfanato (The Orphanage) to a 10-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival. Eclipse is his English language debut. Chris Weitz has already replaced Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke on the sequel New Moon due in November. Eclipse is set for release June 30, 2010, and features battles between werewolves and vampires. Now the question is whether the Twilight fans and Stephenie Meyer will say “Olé”.
Here's another article and link on the topic:The past week has brought about a flurry of names being rumored to direct the third movie in the Twilight series, Eclipse. Never mind the fact that the second movie isn’t done yet after already having a directorial upheaval. Fans want to know who’s going to be calling the shots on the third movie, and Hollywood insider Nikki Finke seems to have the answer.
Finke writes on her blog that Juan Antonio Bayona is the name being confirmed behind closed doors by Summit Pictures, the studio behind the Twilight movies. We reported that rumor earlier in the week, pointing out that a vampire flick seems like a good match for Guillermo del Toro’s protégé. It sounds like he has the job locked up, at least secretly.
I’m a little surprised with the route Summit is taking with the Twilight franchise, dumping Catherine Hardwicke after her popularly received job directing the first movie. Now it sounds like her replacement, Chris Weitz, is only down for one movie as well. On one hand, it makes sense; Summit is interested in grinding these movies out quickly, and separate directors means each movie can move ahead in pre-production while the current movie is filming. On the other hand, there’s a lost sense of consistency when you shuffle directors as each one brings in their own unique style.
We’ll wait for the official word, but if Finke says Bayona is the man, it’s likely to be true.
UPDATE: This has now been confirmed in Variety, so here we go; three films, three directors.
Link for Variety article
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118...
y they can just have ONE director for all the movies? is too hard?
Because the directors want to do other movies and Eclipse is supposedly going to be going into filming while they're still editing New Moon!
TWILIGHT COMES OUT ON DVD IN LIKE 10 DAYS!!!!!!! I'M GONNA GO TO THE STORE THE DAY IT OPENS EVEN IF IT IS LIKE MIDNIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
YA I KNOW IM SOOOO EXITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EW Popwatch lovingly sums up all the Eclipse director rumors and wonders if the “director dance [is:] more entertaining than the movie?“–
Another day, another “news” item proclaiming that there’s a frontrunner for the director’s chair on Eclipse, the third film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series. Will it be Drew Barrymore? About a Boy’s Paul Weitz, brother of New Moon director Chris Weitz? Girl, Interrupted’s James Mangold? The Orphanage’s Juan Antonio Bayona, the Guillermo del Toro protégé whose name is getting serious ink today? Or someone who’s yet to even be mentioned?