HARDWICKE PLANS FOR TWILIGHT SEQUEL SHE'S YET TO BE OFFERED
Posted 12:13pm 12/01/08
TWILIGHT director CATHERINE HARDWICKE is already making big plans for a sequel
to the hit film - even though she's yet to be handed the job.
The filmmaker scored the biggest debut ever for a female director when the
vampire love story shot to number one in the U.S. late last month (Nov08) - and
talks of a follow-up movie are already underway.
Hardwicke has been in talks with Hollywood bosses and is excited about the
prospect of shooting New Moon, the second installment in author Stephanie
Meyer's cult books.
She tells MTV, "Well, right now we're trying to figure out if the studio
people, and me, and everyone's on the same page.
"I want to do (New Moon) better than we did Twilight, and do it really cool.
I definitely don't want to do it as something just tossed off, like a Saw II or
something like that. We want to be sure that it's really going to be great and
that everyone's on the same page.
"I would say that the film could be finished by the end of 2009, if not the
beginning of 2010; cameras could be rolling in about five months. We spent
about a year and three months getting (Twilight) ready, between writing the
script and casting. We could probably do things a little bit faster this time,
but who knows? It depends."
But Hardwicke confesses she's yet to sign on the dotted line - so her efforts
may be in vain.
She jokes, "Where's my crystal ball? I need a crystal ball, I need a fortune
teller. I hope (I make New Moon), but you just have to see if everything can
work out. I don't know." (MT/WNWCM/ZN) *WENN
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