OlderCatherine Hardwicke Fired!!!
Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke has been fired and won’t be returning to helm the sequel, reports Deadline Hollywood.
Sources reveal the acclaimed Thirteen director, “was difficult and irrational during the making of Twilight.” The franchise, which has already accrued $160+ million, headlined Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.
The film studio, Summit Entertainment, has started preparing the sequel New Moon and to contain costs, they are considering making third book Eclipse back to back.
WHAT DO YOU THINK of the firing of Hardwicke? Will you still see New Moon?
UPDATE: The movie studio has released the following statement: “Summit Entertainment and director Catherine Hardwicke jointly announced today that the filmmaker will not be directing the next installment in the newly minted Twilight film franchise. Summit’s targeted end of 2009 or early 2010 release of the film, NEW MOON, does not work with Ms. Hardwicke’s required prep time to bring her vision of the film to the big screen. Thus as has been done before with many successful film franchises, the studio will employ a new director for New Moon.
“I am sorry that due to timing I will not have the opportunity to direct New Moon,” said Hardwicke. “Directing Twilight has been one of the great experiences of my life, and I am grateful to the fans for their passionate support of the film. I wish everyone at Summit the best with the sequel– it is a great story.”
“Catherine did an incredible job in helping us to launch the Twilight franchise and we thank her for all of her efforts and we very much hope to work with her on future Summit projects,” said Erik Feig, Summit’s President of Production. “We as a studio have a mandate to bring the next installment in the franchise to the big screen in a timely fashion so that fans can get more of Edward, Bella and all of the characters that Stephenie Meyer has created. We are able to pursue an aggressive time frame as we have the luxury of only adapting the novels into screenplays as opposed to having to create a storyline from scratch.”
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yes!!
Who cares?
YAY!
She did a bad job in Twilight!
I hope they get a better director now!
OMG!?
SERIOUSLY
shoot thats not good.
I mean she didnt seem like a good director for twilight anyways but how are they going to film new moon in march with no director………
FIND SOMEONE ELSE FAST!!!
Defiantly,
I blame the directing on the first one which was why the first one sucked
I blame the directing on the first one which was why the first one sucked so I am very glad she was fired
i loved twilight, but i guess that the director wasn’t that great of a director… :\
oh well
hmmm…..
twilight was pretty good, but why does it matter??
idk….
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ouch…
well nikki reed and kristen stewart will be pissed lol
and ***** no to making new moon and eclipse back to back
i’m worried..
The only reason Twilight did well was because of the appeal of Rob pattinson. Summit owe him big time
I mean… why???
I’ll see the movie but it wont be the same, and Cath is a great director…
:(
I hope this news is true because Hardwicke was appalling. If it hadnt been for Rob Pattinson I’d never have seen this film.
Honestly, Twilight the movie sucked big time. But I dont think its all her fault, the story was pretty lame too…I havent read the book, so I dont know if its because the adaptation was badly made or because the story itself sucks, but if they want to make a sequel they better make one that everyone can enjoy, even people who haven’t read the books.
That being said, Pattinson is probably the only thing worth watching the movie for.
Please be right about this. Hardwicke was dire. I adore Pattinson and he deserves better than Hardwicke. He’s awesome as Dali in Little Ashes where he has a good script and brilliant director. Hopefully he’ll have at least a decent director and script for New Moon. I’d ditch Rosenberg the script writer as well. I really hope they just use the bookas an aide memoire and build up Pattinson’s role in New Moon. 2 hours of Stewart’s emotionless face is too much for me.
i’m glad she got fired, i don’t think she captured the true essence of twilight. it was cheesy and badly directed. hopefully they will find a person who can balance sci-fi and romance really well, cuz the first movie definitely left alot to be desired.
Thrilled to bits. Now they can give Pattinson some good scenes. New Moon is a poor book and the mid section is so boring and repeititve. Lets see Edward and the Cullens time away from Bella and Edward’s time in Italy. Summit are to reverential to Meyer.
If that’s true, I don’t really think Kristen will be very happy…
Catherine is so enthusiastic about it though, she’s a great director too.
YAY she’s awful. Rob Pattinson deserves a better director than her. Get the director of Little Ashes on board. He’s awesome.
Ditch Kristen Stewart at the same time. Terrible actress and bad role model. Get Emily Browning alongside Pattinson.
Also, they should fire the screenwriter as well, then, because she is the one that really ruined the movie.
with lines like ‘hold on, spider monkey’, how can you take it seriously?
you can’t blame it all on catherine.
thank goodness! i put the blame for the movie sucking hardcore on the casting director,director and screenplay writer and kristen stewart (did anyone actually watch her? not just r.patz?she was pretty terrible. she over acted and made bella into someone else.) hopefully they can bring someone much better in. to me it seemed like several different people were directing the film. there was no flow. there was a lot of contrast between each scene.
good call! too many tight shots, talking heads (i know a lot of people enjoys looking at robert, kristen, etc) but come on, it was so redundant, i didn’t enjoy watching it.. it was boring
Hopefully this means Summit will kick Meyer into touch and tear that book to shreds, More Cullens please. I want to see Edward with his family. Particularly Rob Pattinson and Peter F working together. If Pattinson wasnt such a gorgeous and charismatic actor this franchise woud be dead.
OMG NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
she made twilight what is is now
n yeah she was hard n stuff while filmin but is was worth it
new moon is not goin 2 b the same without the magic of cath :(
i’m glad. the movie sucked! the book was so much better and she could have done a better job.
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