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Breaking Dawn To Be Directed By Somone Other Than Chris Weitz?

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Written by April Yorke   
Tuesday, 12 January 2010 10:25

© Summit EntertainmentPreviously, I reported my disappointment that Chris Weitz could direct two more Twilight movies. Now it appears that Summit will push ahead with filming in Vancouver this fall regardless of who they get to fill the director's chair, and it looks like it won't be Weitz. As I previously mentioned, one movie or two, I don't care because Breaking Dawn is bananas. If they do break it (and now that I'm thinking about it, they should), I suspect it will be around the -- spoiler alert -- childbirth-transition mark or Melissa Rosenberg would do well to end it on a cliffhanger (not unlike New Moon) with Alice dropping the vase and announcing a vision in which they all die.

Now, who can they get to direct them? May I suggest Catherine Hardwicke for Part 1 and David Slade for Part 2 if Summit wants to dip back into the well?  Regardless of the possible animosity between director and studio, Hardwicke excelled at building a haunting teenage love story with just a little tragedy and violence at the edges in Twilight, and the first part of Breaking Dawn continues Bella and Edward's love story with just a little tragedy and violence at the edges. Slade, who directed 30 Days of Night and will be responsible Eclipse this summer, can take on the more danger/thriller aspects of the finale, assuming his vision of Eclipse doesn't suck.

If the Summit wants to hire someone new, it will at least have built a reputation of doing so. Perhaps Canadian Jean-Marc Vallée, director behind the swoony long-distance love affair in The Young Victoria, for the romance-focused half, and Alfonso Cuarón, who is no stranger to steamy with Y tu mamá también, high-profile literary adaptations with Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and end of the world-style tragedies with babies at their centre with Children of Men. Other vampire-aware director suggestions: Vincenzo Natali ("Quartier de la Madeleine"), Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch and Day Watch), and Kathryn Bigelow (Near Dark). Of course, if she keeps scooping up best director awards for The Hurt Locker, it might take a little doing to entice her to this field. Then again, maybe she's one of those middle aged women who love Stephenie Meyer's work.

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April Yorke is a (Cult)ure Magazine contributor since Wednesday, 07 January 2009.

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