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Director David Slade Tries To Explain Why 'Eclipse' Is Best 'Twilight' Movie So Far
07 Dec 2010
By now, you've probably watched the "Eclipse" DVD at least once, though we suspect that figure numbers more in the tens or twenties. (One Hollywood Crush reader tweeted that she's watched it 35 times already! Is that even mathematically possible?!) However many times you've seen the "Twilight" film, we bet it's only reaffirmed many fans' (and critics') opinions that "Eclipse" is the best of the franchise...so far. When we chatted with director David Slade last week in anticipation of the DVD's release, we couldn't help but ask why he thinks the third film is the favorite.
"I think it had the best story," he said. "And the most action."
That's all well and good, David, but we think you had a little something to do with it, too.
"You know, I did my best," he said with a chuckle. "The director of the film is always the harshest critic of the film. What you do is spend two years or a-year-and-a-half or whatever it is intensely, emotionally working on something. You watch it a thousand times. What you're doing is assembling it together, and then there's a bunch of cracks, and you're closing the gaps in those cracks. And then, what happens in the end, you go, and you start noticing those cracks again. It's the same with any film."
Credit: Hollywood Crush/MTV
Posted by Erin
Category: Articles, Eclipse Movie, David Slade
Video: 'Eclipse' DVD Sneak Peak
03 Dec 2010
Don't forget that 'Eclipse' gets released at midnight!!! The Facebook page of The Twilight Saga has posted a preview behind-the-scenes of shooting in the meadow:
Posted by Erin
Category: Video, Merchandise, Eclipse Movie, David Slade
Video: David Slade on 'Eclipse'
02 Dec 2010
Here's a sneak peak behind the scenes of 'Eclipse' with David Slade and the way he envisioned and approached filming the movie:
Posted by Erin
Category: Video, Eclipse Movie, David Slade
‘Eclipse’ Director Says ‘Twilight’ Wedding Almost Came Early
02 Dec 2010
Any Twi-Hard knows that Bella Swan’s extravagant wedding to her handsome vampire suitor occurs in the beginning of series closer “Breaking Dawn” — chapter three, to be exact.
But according to David Slade, the director of the “Twilight Saga: Eclipse” adaptation, it might have come a little earlier on the big screen.
“We discussed a lot of the things at the script-writing stage — at one point, we were even going to shoot the wedding at the end of ["Eclipse"] but we knew there was another film coming,” Slade tells NextMovie exclusively.
“We knew that a lot of that could go into the next film. And we just made the most concise version of this story that we could.”
Check out the rest of our interview with Slade, in which he predicts the next “Twilight” — and explains the magic behind Stephenie Meyer’s creation.
Posted by Erin
Category: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Articles, Eclipse Movie, David Slade
'Eclipse' DVD: David Slade Answers Five Burning Questions
02 Dec 2010
Entertainment Weekly recently posted answers to five questions that David Slade answered regarding the 'Eclipse' DVD. Click "read more" to read all the questions and answers!
4. Did he ever toss a grape into Taylor Lautner’s mouth between takes? The making-of documentary occasionally breaks into “Taylor Time” (there’s even a graphic) during which we see Lautner having fun on-set. Slade’s assistant and Stewart are seen throwing grapes that Lautner catches in his mouth from a good distance away. Did the director ever partake in that game? “Not me,” he says. “I watched in astonishment and photographed him backflipping from a standstill, which he does. I also got to witness how he terrorized, in a very good-natured way, the bodyguards that were hired to make sure that they were all fine. He would play practical jokes on them all the time. It was quite a lot of fun.”Read more
Posted by Erin
Category: Articles, Eclipse Movie, David Slade
'Eclipse': Behind The New And Improved Wolves
11 Jul 2010
If you’ve seen The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, odds are you left raving about the wolves — particularly the scene in which Jacob, in wolf form, saddles up to Bella during the training sequence. It’s one of the moments Phil Tippett — a two-time Oscar winner for Jurassic Park and Return of the Jedi whose visual effects house, Tippett Studio, handled the wolves for both Eclipse and New Moon — is most proud of. “That was an unusual thing for us in that most of the time, we are doing these ‘god awful animals start tearing each other apart,’” Tippett told us recently, phoning from England where he’d just celebrated Ray Harryhausen’s 90th birthday. “So it was great to have a quiet moment. A tender scene that telegraphs a budding and suppressed relationship was tricky. In fact, the entire training sequence was difficult in that the wolves do nothing. A bunch of wolves standing around watching vampires train and trying to portend some kind of anxiety was tricky. It’s tricky for any actor when you have to carry a certain part of the scene where you do nothing, because you have to figure out a way of filling up the nothing with something.”
It was important to Eclipse director David Slade that Taylor Lautner actually film that scene with Kristen Stewart so she was able to establish eye contact with him instead of with a golf ball that could’ve been used as an eyeline and painted out later. The wardrobe department dressed Lautner in a neutral grey leotard and hoodie — primarily so his skin tone wouldn’t bounce back onto Stewart and create lighting issues when Wolf Jacob was added, Tippett says. We, however, like to believe someone was already thinking about the DVD extras. That will be great, won’t it?
The tender moment was made more challenging by the fact that Slade had a different vision of the wolves than New Moon director Chris Weitz. For starters, Weitz wanted the wolves to have their actor’s eyes. “He kind of wanted the performance to feel like the wolf behavior was being filtered through a human brain,” Tippett says. Slade wanted the wolves to have wolf eyes to de-anthropomorphize them. “David wanted the performances to be more feral, twitchy, and agitated. He wanted to see wolves that were more photographically representational, which had to do with things like getting more hair follicles, making the paws smaller.”
The believability of the wolves was equally crucial in the climactic fight sequence with the newborn vampire army. “We had to come up with a rationale for what happens when a 1,300-pound wolf that’s running 35 miles an hour crashes into a newborn vampire [played by an actor that weighs 165 lbs], how we justify that,” Tippett says. “David allowed us the transgression of saying, ‘Well, let’s just say that the newborns, since they’re not made of human material but some kind of a more marble-like material, have an actual mass of something like 500 pounds, so they have a lower center of gravity.’ And that allowed us to begin thinking about how to make all of that palpable, without thinking that they’re existing in two different physical universes.” Watch a clip of how that action gets put together below.
Which wolves did you prefer: New Moon‘s or Eclipse‘s?
Credit: Entertainment Weekly
Posted by Erin
Category: New Moon Movie, Articles, Chris Weitz, Eclipse Movie, David Slade
David Slade's Note to the Fans
05 Jun 2010
A letter from David Slade was recently posted on 'The Twilight Saga' on Facebook. Read below to see what he has to say to the fans:
Dear fans of The Twilight Saga,
I want to congratulate you for reaching over 6 million fans on The Twilight Saga Facebook page.
It's hard to fathom that it was just over one year ago that I started constructing this third and epic adventure which takes place in the town of Forks.
I want to share a story about one of our days of shooting with you.
It was a Friday night and the rain was relentless. We were at La Push to shoot the tribe's histories, a great speech by Billy Black. We had Taylor and Kristen and the whole wolf pack around a campfire as the heavens let loose on us.
Gil Birmingham was in fine form as the rain hammered down on us all, we adjusted our lights so that the rain vanished into the black of night.
We constructed a tent over the scene to keep everyone dry as we worked, every 15 minutes or so we would have to tip it to stop the collecting rain from splitting the fabric.
For some reason still unknown, around 3am, the wolf pack stood exactly in the way of several gallons of rainwater as it was being cleared. Being the wolf pack, they just laughed it off as they stood there soaked to the bone.
We worked through the mud and the rain all night, until we had the scene perfected.
As we left, dawn was now cracking and in the dim light I passed a small army of fans who had braved the weather for the entire night, still standing there, holding drenched flowers and waiting to get a glimpse of our actors.
So, to those of you who stood behind our security, who waited in line at theatres overnight, to those of you who just love these stories, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is a love letter to you.
Each day I felt the weight of your favourite scenes, your favourite lines, your dreams and your imagination.
It has been an unforgettable journey, and now as I finalise the last prints to ready the film for your local theaters, I cannot wait for you to see it.
Sincerest Regards,
DAVID SLADE
Posted by Erin
Category: Articles, Eclipse Movie, David Slade
David Slade Twitters 'Eclipse' Photo of Ashley Greene
24 May 2010
Earlier today, David Slade posted on his Twitter a black and white photo of Ashley Greene on the set as Alice. Click the photo below for the larger sized image. David tweeted the following:
Now making the prints for your cinemas. We are officially one step away from the screen. In celebration here is a http://twitpic.com/1qp5o1
about 7 hours ago via Twitpic
>>> +1 MQ David Slade's Twitter 'Eclipse' Photo Postings
Posted by Erin
Category: Pictures, Ashley Greene, Eclipse Movie, David Slade
David Slade Twitters About Re-Shooting 'Eclipse'
03 May 2010
Yesterday, David Slade took to his Twitter account to clarify and smush the rumors going around about their being issues on the set during the recent re-shooting:
So strange, I go away for three weeks and return to all these upsetting completely fabricated rumours. Who makes this stuff up as news.
2:47 PM May 2nd via web
REAL NEWS: last 3 weeks have gone fantastic, pick up shoot felt more like a reunion. Rob, Kristen,Taylor the crew & I gave 110%. Onwards!
2:50 PM May 2nd via web
And there you have it!
Posted by Erin
Category: Eclipse Movie, David Slade
Summit Replaces Editor on 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'
03 Mar 2010
Summit Entertainment, the studio behind the uber-successful Twilight series, confirmed this morning that it has replaced Eclipse editor Art Jones with Nancy Richardson, the editor of Catherine Hardwicke’s original Twilight film. The studio is not placing blame on Jones, who previously worked with Eclipse director David Slade on his horror film 30 Days of Night as well as Slade’s Ellen Page-starrer Hard Candy. They do believe, however, that Slade’s material – which they call “very good” – needed a stronger edit. The studio has more confidence in Richardson, who they say understands the emotion of the characters and is an ace at balancing action with the other elements of the film.
Credit: Entertainment Weekly
Posted by Erin
Category: Articles, Eclipse Movie, David Slade