Fandango commentator Lizerne Guiting recently interviewed New Moon director Chris Weitz. Here are some of the the high points of that interview:
On the New Moon Soundtrack (which you can already pre-order):“I mean the criterion will still always be what’s right for the movie at that given moment, but Thom Yorke is interested. We might, if we’re very lucky, get Kings of Leon to do something.”
On Taylor: “It was great to be with Taylor as he went from a character who had three small scenes in the first movie to one of the dominant characters in the movie.”
The Volturi: “You start to think, well, they’ve been around for 2,000 years. How would they live? How would they interact with one another? The conclusion really was that after 2,000 years, you would probably be more than mildly insane, no matter how cultured or gracious you appear on the surface.”
On the wolf transformation: “Obviously, people are gonna notice horse-sized wolves and realize on some level that they’re special effects, but they are photo-realistic and they should be as expressive as a good actor, if possible.”
Fan base: “But I do feel a tremendous amount of responsibility, more to the readership than to the movie franchise in a way, because I think that that’s the core experience that you’re trying to get at.”
(Thank you for that and I couldn’t agree more, Chris! Maybe that is why this looks like it might actually be really good.)
On David Slade: ” David Slade came in while we were still shooting the end of New Moon and I showed him everything that I could to give him a sense of what direction we were going. He’s going to take it whichever way he wants to, but just as I was inheriting certain things from (Twilight director) Catherine Hardwicke, he’s going to inherit certain things from me and make the choice as to whether he wants to keep them or alter them.”
Cutting the proposal at the end (WHAT?): “It hasn’t been cut out. I can tell you that much. It’s not going to hit them in exactly the way that they think it’s going to, but I will say that it’s going to be quite special. I kind of saved all of my gusto for that moment. I don’t think it’ll disappoint.”
