Makes sense to me. David did a great job with the action in Eclipse !

The script for “Wolverine 2″ has been in place for a few months now, and Hugh Jackman recently cleared his schedule to begin the process of beefing up to bring the clawed Canadian mutant back to the big screen. One thing that’s still missing, however, is a director.While “X-Men” director Bryan Singer had been rumored as a top contender to get behind the camera for “Wolverine 2,” Vulture is reporting that “Twilight: Eclipse” and “30 Days of Night” director David Slade is the current favorite for the role. “Red” director Robert Schwentke is also under consideration to helm the film, and both filmmaker will meet with Jackman next week.

The report cites anonymous “well-placed sources” in the studio, claiming both filmmakers have been approved by 20th Century Fox, and are only awaiting Jackman’s decision.

Screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie’s script for the film is based on Chris Claremont and Frank Miller’s story arc that saw Logan traveling to Japan, falling in love, and brawling with samurai.

“['Wolverine 2'] will be very different from the last ‘Wolverine’ movie, and that’s what I like about it,” Jackman told MTV News last year. “I didn’t want it to feel like the same thing. … It’s a whole new environment and the storyline is unbelievable. I wish I could announce to you some of the people involved.”

Filming for “Wolverine 2″ is expected to begin in January 2011.

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Unfortunately there will be no New Years gift from David Slade, as originally promised in Mr. Slade’s earlier tweet.  He tried….  Speculation was that it would be a trailer for the Twilight Saga: Eclipse.  Maybe things just aren’t ready yet.  Quality is the top priority, David, so no worries.

The Sun-Sentential in Florida ran a great article with lots of fun info from the set of New Moon. There’s discussions about Breaking Dawn, the directing of Eclipse, and more. Here is a portion:

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Robert Pattinson is having an Obi-Wan Kenobi moment. Inside a soundstage where “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” is shooting, the lanky English heartthrob stands in front of a tall, wide green screen murmuring a tender admonition, “You promised me nothing reckless.” Motion capture cameras hurtle toward him across a length of track affixed to the stage floor, while a team of technicians studies his stance and the tilt of his head.

The plan is to digitally insert Pattinson, who plays swoony good guy vampire Edward Cullen, into a scene that was filmed much earlier—one in which he appears as an apparition to his costar, Kristen Stewart, cautioning her headstrong character Bella Swan against hanging out with some unsavory-looking biker types. For the effect to work, Pattinson’s image will need to be dropped in at exactly the right position, so despite the cast and crew nearing the end of a very long early May day, perfectionism is still the standard.

Many hours have been spent waiting for the sun to emerge from Vancouver’s perpetual cloud bank. Weitz and his team have been trying to film one of the few outdoor sequences that require bright natural light, but because the notoriously difficult British Columbian climate has refused to cooperate, the “New Moon” cast and crew are about to spend the better part of a 12-hour day inside the elaborate fiction of an Italianate marble hall complete with columns and engravings in Latin.

Today, that vampire ruling council is ruminating over the fate of Edward and Bella. Walking forward with his arms extended, Aro, played by British actor Michael Sheen, sporting blood-red contact lenses, offers a vaguely sinister greeting to his reluctant guests. The scene is replayed over and over, with Pattinson at one point leaving the set to consult with Weitz about a particular line of dialogue.

Standing by the monitors, the pair run through a number of options, while Stewart sits on the floor looking a little bored as she waits for the cameras to resume rolling. After several minutes, Pattinson, wearing a long, red robe and fake bruises painted beneath his eyes, returns to his mark, and filming resumes.

“I promised the actors that no matter what, we would have time to discuss every single line,” Weitz explains. “There was a line that he felt was repetitive, and Rob wasn’t feeling where he was in the scene. We worked it out and came up with some alternate dialogue. I can work on the fly a bit because I’m a writer-director, which is helpful. I don’t feel stuck or panicky when an actor is not down with a particular piece of dialogue.”

A bigger question mark hangs over what is the most adult entry in Meyer’s series, “Breaking Dawn.” Godfrey was mum as to specifics, saying only that everyone involved fully intends to make what would be the fourth movie. (The Web site imdb.com lists “Breaking Dawn” as in development with a tentative 2011 release date.)

“We’re shooting ‘New Moon,’ prepping ‘Eclipse,’ doing all the marketing—it’s a little overwhelming to really think in a detailed manner of how we’re going to crack this, but we have every intention to,” he said of “Dawn.”

Read the whole article here.