"I was in Paris with Rob [Pattinson] and Kristen [Stewart] at dinner and talking to them and it was like, 'Is this really the schedule? Would we really be starting ten and half weeks from now?'" Hardwicke told me yesterday in Santa Monica at the launch event for her new book, Twilight: Director's Notebook. "Yes, we would, for various reasons which I respect, but I really thought it would be better for somebody else, who hadn't just been working every day for two years without a day off."
But now, as New Moon filming gets underway in Vancouver with director Chris Weitz, does Hardwicke have any regrets? Read on to find out…
"I'm sad," Hardwicke admitted. "But I would not want to let those people down…I was offered a very nice amount of money, plenty more than I have ever seen or my family has seen. But I wanted to do it only if I was going to make it better than Twilight."
Hardwicke says she keeps in touch with Pattinson and Stewart and is happy to report that they haven't changed much since she first met them. "It hasn't gone to their heads," she said. "They're still really cool. They've got their family and friends who keep them grounded. It's so cool."
Hardwicke also confirmed reports that she's reuniting with Summit Entertainment (the studio behind the Twilight movie franchise) to direct the adaptation of If I Stay, a young adult novel that doesn't even come out until next month.
And earlier this week, it was announced that she's attached to Maximum Ride from James Patterson's book series about a group of kids who are 98 percent human and two percent bird.
Yes, another series with a nice big fan base. Sound familiar?
"I love when people are that excited and passionate about it," she said. "When you do an indie film you're just hoping somebody will go see the movie and you're trying to stir it up with some excitement. The fact that there already is excitement is great."
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Gozde:
Dear Catherine,
I liked you, I loved your "spunk" about the whole series AND you cast Rob as Robward Cullenson which gave you an all inclusive pass to anything EVER done but YOU left out the "I love you"s in Twilight, YOU left out why Edward fell in love with Bella and vice versa, YOU deleted the scenes that were vital to the movie and left in the ones that were commercial. YOU cast Nikki Reed as Rosalie! I do love me some Nikki but Rosalie? Seriously? The most beautiful BLOND woman in the world?
As a woman YOU couldn't capture the love between Edward and Bella!
If it wasn't for Rob I would have hated the movie adaptation of Twilight.
I hope the next installments will show Robward as the gentleman who would DIE to make Bella happy/loved. NOT drag her around by the arm and tell her to google stuff!
Just do your research people! It's not that hard...
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It's all Edward's fault!
I GOOGLE EVERYTHING NOW *cries*
Hello ladies!!!
~kd
I 110% agree with you Gozde. Nothing against female directors, but I didn't think Catherine did a good job at all and if it wasn't for the beautiful Robward I would have hated the film.
I thought the art direction was great, but like so many other adaptations, they focused too much on trying to get all of the main story line in and forgot that the story isn't always about the plot. I really hope they do the break up scene well...
Touche, Goz.
Edward would never have been so rough with Bella. EVER. Did she not read the book? And they never said "I love you"...BAH!
Godze - you hit the nail right on the head.
Agreed, rob made the movie.
Did anyone notice that Rob's piano concert is to be included in the dvd? hopefully as much of the 2hrs he supposedly played for as possible!
That alone is worth the price, soo excited for that! The fingers!
I think that the problem with the movie wasn't just CH.....though I could go on for days about the problems I saw in the direction...But a lot of the problem was also in the script. And if I'm not mistaken, I think that it's the same screenwriter adapting NM. This worries me.
Then again, it really was 50/50 for me on the direction and the screenwriting. If the writing had been better, it could have enhanced the lack of direction. If the direction had been better, it could have made up for the shitty screenplay. But they just collided in this really crappy, low-budget (even though their budget wasn't THAT small, truth be told), unpolished thing. I appreciated the thought that Rob put into the role, I appreciated the casting of the Cullens and of Charlie.
And I'm expecting a lot from KS for the next movie. I guess we'll see.
i agree with you 100% except i loved the movie!
You're so right, Gozde.
Didn't you hate those deleted scenes too? Not like Edward at all. At least they wre deleted.
Catherine didn't have everything to do with editing the film! She (and her team) had to please the marketing people and I'm sure many others standing in the procession of telling her what was best and what to do! I thought the whole love element sucked too!! I thought GOD NO!! They butchered it!! THEY BUTCHERED IT! The book was much more obsessive (and repetitive)(not that it's a bad thing)!! More breathing on the neck and hovering around Bella please!! We all want Edward to go on forever but Hollywood sucks big donkey balls when it comes to that stuff!! I'm sure if Catherine had it her way it would have been much different!! Give her a break! At least we have all the Twilight outtakes we could ever hope for!! And eclipse is steamy....and breaking dawn....steamier still!! Man, just grab on to the handrail because all of our fairytale dreams are about to come true on screen(withing a three year time span). oh the pain...oh the agony waiting waiting waiting. haha
I have to say that I didn't like the deleted scene when he bites her finger at all. The man has to fight outrageously hard not to kill her in the first book. "Oh, I'll just take a little nibble of your finger and a drop of your blood...giggle giggle...that was fun...No problems controlling myself here..." GAH! It's freakin' BLOODLUST, not a mere annoyance. Sorry, had to get that off my chest.
I think it's important to note though that Kristen and Rob FOUGHT Catherine a lot. Rob wanted to go darker and not even kiss Bella at the end. Catherine said she had to reassure them both strongly that love can be that powerful, etc. So, who knows the real reason why the movie didn't show Edward and Bella's bond very well.
But it definitely is the director's ultimate responsibility.
Considering that I had to watch the movie three times to remember to look at their clothing, other people in the film, and the lush background scenery - I would say that Rob and Kristen did all right with conveying their attraction to each other. :-)
I wanted a 6 hour movie to go over every detail - but alas, Hollywood is not going to bend to my desires... and they still are fighting the mighty power that is women's desires to see a romantic film done well. Or any movie that might cater to women... Bah!
amen to that...
thanks to twilight fanatics her movie was a blockbuster...
i have to say the awkward moments in the movie is really something to cringe about...
but what can we do?
thank godness rob dazzle me in every way... *wink*wink*
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i love the movie... but just because of Rob being my favorite dream vampire...
i think you're right in every thing nicky as rosalie?? where is the love, the nights together.. all the confessions, the doubts...
i'm expecting many things from new moon i hope to get everythink i hope!
ciao everyone!!
Rob, did say he wanted to play Edward a little different then how he was described in the book, because you only get Bella's point of view. For me personally, because I saw the movie before reading any of the books, I thought they did a great job for people who didn't read the books before seeing the movie. The directing could have been better. And I hope that with the short time between New Moon and Eclipse that it will be get better and better.
AMEN!! Well said dear!
I think the movie was great. But of course could have been made better. They needed to focus WAY more on Edward's blood lust. Rob should have been allowed to be darker because those of us who read MS (or "dark high noon") know that he was insane for Bella. Edward would never pull her by the arm. not even to scare her off or whatever.
instead on focusing so much on the bad vampires and waylan, they should have done the blood sampling day at school, because when he drove Bella home that day that really brought them together. They should have made the movie 2 hours, and added more time with the cool vamp couples. and i agree, Nikki as Rosalie??? wtf? I can think of a bunch of actresses who would have been better. Also, can I just say I love Rachelle as Victoria. She doesn't get enough credit.
I am praying NM and Eclipse are made well.
I agree she took out what was needed."I Love You",and Edward would have never manhandled Bella. I think she catered to people who never read the books rather than the die hard fans who saw the movie multiple times. Thank God for Rob our saving grace.
I love Catharine's passion and enthusiasm but I did miss TenderWard.
And would an "I love you" have killed them? Even an "Olive Juice" would have sufficed.
real is what reAL IS
i think nikki pulls off rosalie very well!! any other actress would be cheesy and hard to take seriously. she has the intimidating qualities that the character possesses! i remember thinking 'wow' when i saw 'thirteen', 'this is a girl that would totally get me to do these ridiculous things when i was that age'. she's also the most beautiful girl/vampire girl that BELLA has ever seen! or whoever else in the book agreed she was pretty.
What I wish had been included was more in the meadow - when Edward was working on getting used to being around Bella. The whole scene with Edward's hand - possibly my favorite part in the whole book. There needed to be more Chapter 13...
I think Catherine did a stand up job with what she had. But Edward should have said I love you and kissed her feverishly like in the book when Alice and Jasper were about to drive Bella down to Phoenix.
should have been:
"Bella, you are my life now and I love you." *Smooch*
True dat Rae! Feeling each other tenderly in the meadow was needed.
mmh...idk what to sya for catherine, but she is really good to directing actors to play their gems at her hands, she is really personal characters director..
are you kidding me, MAXIMUM RIDE, is my other favourite books from james paterson, oohhhh it's cool they want to make her to made into movie, gosshhhhhhhh...i am faint now..
I absolutely agree with you Gozde! The film was way too choppy and Catherine cut the very best scenes. And Nikki Reed made Rosalie look too generic.
Love the new banner!
I liked a lot of what Catherine brought to Twilight, not the least of which was Rob. She and Kristin fought for him when the Summit suits were doubting that they "could make that guy good-looking." What a perfect illustration of the cluelessness of bottom-liners, and unfortunately, they're the ones - not the artists - who have the final say about what makes it to the screen.
ROB MAID IT HAPPEN
I enjoyed the movie, but there is just no way any director could've satisfied millions of readers "idea" of Twilight. It was just an impossible task.
I give her credit for trying...
It's hard to argue about a film that has energized everyone's libido to a frenzy. LOL! Yes, Catherine could have made Edward more obsessive about Bella by spewing all the LOVE imaginable on film. But maybe doing so would have saturated all of us and would have taken out the delicious hunger we all feel inside that makes us want it so much more afterwards...hence the Twilight DVD. LMAO! The key to this film is bulding up the anticipation that will culminate at "Breaking Dawn". This is an important franchise formula that works for both the studio and for us audiences. I say audiences because most of us have read the books but because of the foundation laid on the first film, we shall enjoy the books and the movies separately. Moreover, we shall patronize all merchandizes related to the movies because we just won't get enough of it. And that's the whole point -- to make sure that each sequel keeps everyone's libido lusting until 2010 or 2011. LOL! The fact is, when you're creating a love story on film with four sequels, you have to make sure it will last four sequels. And the only way to do that is to exploit the hunger all the way to breaking point.
On the matter of casting, I agree 100% about the faulty casting of Nikki Reed as Rosalie. When I read Rosalie (the most beautiful blond in the world) I imagined Taylor Swift in the role. The girl can act (I saw her in CSI) and is undeniably beautiful. Her real life persona fits Rosalie as well. Swift is known to be a bit of a control freak, a bit vengeful, but otherwise, hardworking and very determined. Just look at how she triumphed after getting dumped by Joe Jonas. She wrote a song about it that made her album go back to Number 1 at the Billboard charts again and again, kicking the Jonas Brothers out of the charts.
Also, for tabloid fodder...wouldn't it be delicious to imagine Swift with Pattinson? I know, it's nasty. But that's why it's tabloid. Of course when it comes to being a bitch, no one comes remotely close to Kristen Stewart. She'll always be the number 1 of course, if not, the only one. LOL!
Guys, I think that actually THERE IS "I LOVE YOU" in the movie- it's just a bit hidden.
I'm not 100% sure, but in the garage scene it looks like Edward is MOUTHING "I love you" after saying "You are my life now" to Bella. I'm quite surprised that no one has noticed that O_o
Anyway, watch it very carefully & you'll probably catch it.
Of course, it's not the same as articulated phrase, but still, I think it's really sweet detail ;)
catherine is doing her best to make twilight is entertaining and i think that just stop her creativity and her sense little bit away from the original book, but it's happen when you have a lot of pressure and the movie is a low budget one, she has to finish the job and the movie extremely fast and sells a fortune, if she could, but lucky for her, it's box office...sighs...
actually, twilight movie is not really good at all if robert pattinson is not the edward cullen i think it's kinda bit cheesy even with kristen stewart in it, she is not more than dead fish in twilight, and please, she has to take her stalker BF away for new moon before she end up ruin the chemistry again...i mean she need crying,devastationg, etc and feels love, head to heel to edward in new moon...
for rosalie, yup, nikki is far away from what the book describe and i think it's because nikki is catherine friend and they closed each other, i mean, an actress with a blonde hair, stunning face, beutiful body it's much much better than nikki reed somewhere else outhere... taylor swift is a good idea..
Tess, I'm with you on what you said. No film would ever live up to everyone's ideal of what it should have been. CH had great intentions, but key parts were missing.
Moon flower, we noticed the "Olive juice" in the garage months ago. We agree, it looks like Rob said "I love you", but we'll never know for sure unless he comes out and says he did. One could only hope! :)
And no, Edward would not have manhandled Bella that way.
And we needed more Chapter13.
Morning, all!
Oh, I forgot, I LOVE the last picture, here. Yummy Rob.
Gozde - kudos. Twilight left me feeling romantically uninspired, and i hadn't even read the book yet. The book filled that all in for me. Rob was the only reason i saw it 4 times. I basically sat and waited for Rob to appear on screen.
But HAVE TO HAVE the DVD so i can see him on a screen larger than my laptop, and over and over again. rewind. play. rewind. play....
Nice work on a hangover, Goz!!!
Gozde - kudos. Twilight left me feeling romantically uninspired, and i hadn't even read the book yet. The book filled that all in for me. Rob was the only reason i saw it 4 times. I basically sat and waited for Rob to appear on screen.
But HAVE TO HAVE the DVD so i can see him on a screen larger than my laptop, and over and over again. rewind. play. rewind. play....
Nice work on a hangover, Goz!!!
Lovindashow: yup. I felt disappointed knowing NM would have the same screenplay writer. and frankly, there were times when i cringed at a scene and wondered "that's what the director wanted?"
crazy: I have a really bad hangover. I don't think I can function properly today :P
rest up, Gozde :)
i agree with Gozde!
I hadn't read the books either before I saw the movie. I was actually dreading seeing the movie because I expected it to be just another stupid teen film, but I had promised my daughter we would go so I went and I was actually surprised that I enjoyed it. Then the following weekend I was bored and borrowed her twilight book - and spent the entire rest of the weekend reading the series. Seeing the movie again after reading the books brought to the forefront how much was missing and then I was disappointed. But again, without having read the books first I had thought the movie was good. KL
Listen everyone....what you are all complaining about has to do with the SCRIPT, not the DIRECTING. CH can't put in "i love you" if it's not in the script. She can't show more of this or that if it's not in the script. it's the SCRIPT that sucked, thats the part that tells the story. The director directs the actors to PLAY OUT THE SCRIPT, so it's not her fault that he pulled her by the arm and told her to google. Think about it! THAT WAS THE SCRIPT! and you have the same person writing the script for NM, so I hope she does a better job, cause there's not as much Rob in the movie to pull it out.
I agree with some of the things that are said here. When I first saw Twilight, I thought, that was okay. There was a bit of a jump from Edward hating Bella to them being in love that wasnt explained, but I thought 'Not bad'. Then I read Twilight. Wow! I was glad I had seen the movie first, cause then when ever I read the name Edward, I saw Robert Pattinson. Again...wow!! I never really noticed that they didnt say 'I love you' in the movie until fans started pointing it out. And I'm not sorry they didn't. Unfortunately 'I love you' is said so much these days without any meaning that it doesnt always come across as 'real' much. I could tell that they loved each other by the way they LOOKED at each other. Especially the way Robert made Edward look at Bella. WOW!!! He is soooo expressive! Since the first time I have seen Twilight 9 more times in the theater and I love it!!! Robert Pattinson is AMAZING!!!!
I agree with you, Gozde!
But it's clear that this Twilight movie was mainly produced to make money, not to represent the book as good as possible. Just look at the huge merchandise and promotion machinery and the fact that they do the next two movies in such a hurry... So I think that CH had to adjust to the wishes of the studio, the marketing people etc., as others mentioned above and that they didn't take care of the quality. The movie looked to me like it was made in a hurry with no care.
I work in PR and I think most people underestimate the influence of the producers and the studio that pull all the strings especially when there aren't no big name director or actors involved. Probably this and the fact that CH isn't the best director anyway led to this poor version of Twilight.
Which is really a pity because with Rob the movie adaptation could have been truly awesome!
Hey Ladies - Goz I always love to hear your take. Hope you feel better soon!
KK - the outtake where Rob bites KStews finger was an ad lib. I liked the deleted scenes that showed more of their relationship development cuz that, to me is what was lacking. Although Rob would say it wasn't scary enough. Ha! I think CH had the control but she gave it up and just didn't deliver. I've suffered through the movie several times and I love the visuals. More Robward, more. CW can stick to the story/angst of NM and still give us Robward! He ISN'T totally absent from NM.
i completely agree with you Goz the movie completely missed the I LOVE YOU or the die hard love of Romeo & Juliet. I actually went back through the book after seeing the movie and it is there quite a few times I LOVE YOU, how did that get left off?!
As for Nikki, she & Catherine worked on another film and that is why she chose her.
I bought the Directors book this week, not much in it, i should have just sat in Barnes & Noble and read it there. All of the stuff in it has already been talked about over and over again.
I think Chris may do a better job because he is hearing all of the backlash from Twilight regarding catherine.
i also completely agree without rob, how great would it have been.
oh yeah, this funny i told my husband that i was buying the movie this weekend and he wants to see it. i know that he will think that it is cheezy so i am dreading watching it with him because he will ruin all of my EDWARD CULLEN parts. he likes chic flicks but i dont know how this one will play out for him :(
I agree with you totally Gozde about the "I love you" part missing. I've read all the comments so far and to those teenagers talking about Taylor Swift getting with Rob, sweeties NO. She is to young and inexperienced...
Okay Catherine did suck as director, the screen writer did collaborate with S. Meyer so she did have input, Kristen DID talk about how she didn't want to say I LOVE YOU all the time (so she is to blame) and her and Rob changed a lot of the dialogue which they thought was cheesy. I also remember Kristen saying how the studio would talk to them a lot about not being so serious all the time. They wanted them to play up the more happier side. And yes Nikki did alright but there could have been someone else. You just have to remember that people schedules have to be open. I to wished to see more of the relationships and they could have cut out the attack scenes (they sucked as well). Oh and something that no one has said so far is I would have liked to hear more of there conversations when there together.
Last but not least Rob did his part. What I loved was the way he drew Kristen in as Bella. I loved how he hung in the tree looking down at her with such desire. And at the rock when he leaned into her and then she stood her ground and looked him dead in his eyes. *Swoon* Oh and that was when I realized that there was a real life connection with them. I'm grown enough to know that "look" and stare you give somebody when you feel that pull towards them.
But like crazy said in another post, "Rob can have chemistry with anybody". Hell truthfully with a paper bag he is just that good...
When I saw that deleted scene from the meadow, where Edward actually touches Bellas face....I just couldn´t believe that they cut that scene out.
I mean, I was sooooo missing that in the movie, and it would have made the movie about 10 sec. longer, but soooo much better!
I just don´t get it...WHY?????
I totally agree with everything you say. I'm so glad she's not the director of New Moon!
I agree 100% Godze,
the acting cast was the only good thing about the film. Peter, Cam, Rob, Ashley, Kellan and of course Billy Burke were sooo good.
But the musical score sucked,
the scene pacing sucked
the cgi sucked
the awkward camera angles and cheezy montages sucked
They left out Jasper's ability which really annoyed me!
Poor Jackson only got 2 lines in the whole film!!
They didn't give us enough Alice/Bella friendship either.
Catherine had NO idea what she was doing, I hope a male director can do better and make it less cheezy.
The vampires need to be cooler and less lame lol. I want to be absolutley terrified when i see the Vulturi in New Moon,
Are ya with me girls?!
The addition of the normal vampires early in the story (to add more action--*gags*) took away too much screen time from the developing Edward/Bella love story. FATAL FILM FLAW.
Rob's hair and makeup were cheesy, too. No wonder he makes fun of them in the Commentary.
DH laughed when he saw Nikki as Rosalie. I think she is a pretty girl but just not right for the part. JMHO.
Thanks Gozde for leading this great discussion! Not too shabby for having a hangover, lol.
D6Sense~You bring up so many thoughtful points, thank you. I'm not sure Taylor is womanly (ie curvy) enough for the role of Rosalie although I see what you are saying.
Goz, I love ur take on the movie! I have said all along that their relationship(Edward & Bella) wasn't developed. What do u think about the screenwriter?
I also agree about Nikki, she is pretty, but beautiful? If Robert had not been in the movie,Summit would be broke right now. OMG When he walked into that lunchroom there were gasps in the audience! Can't wait to watch it over and over.
I was looking forward to seeing the movie and when I finally did I was terribly disappointed - I laughed in parts because of how bad I thought it was and at one point I almost walked out. I thought the directing was terrible.
The reason I stayed was because I was intrigued by Rob. With that being said, I saw the movie again (after reading the rest of the series) and actually enjoyed it. I think my expectations were set really high the first I saw it.
I'm now counting the minutes until I own the DVD... For me, Rob made Twilight one of my faves and I can't wait for NM. And one more thing, I don't know why so many people think Robward won't be in NM much. He's in at least half of the book. I'm not worried about missing out on my Robward fix in NM.
The screenwriter Melissa R also wrote and was exec-producer for the series Dexter. I love Dexter so I was very surprised to see how Twilight the movie was so choppy. Also some of the script was cheesy. I only new of one other person that didn't read the book before seeing the movie and he did like it. I went totally obsessed watch every screen but did feel it came out okay. Yes, there is so much more (mature) can be done, so here's hoping (with raised wine glass) the future books will be better.
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