Sofia Coppola, Gus Van Sant And Bill Condon All Offered Twilight: Breaking Dawn
It looks like Summit are trying to extend their reach even further thanEclipse’s David Slade in picking a director forBreaking Dawn, the finalTwilightfilm (or maybe films). Amongst their picks are three Academy Award nominated directors typically associated with more widely respected fare:Sofia Coppola,Gus Van SantandBill Condon.
Again, this project seems to be relatively well cut to fit Gus van Sant – or as well cut as any producer-led adaptation job could be. Bill Condon though? Interesting.
Early in Condon’s career he collaborated with Michael Laughlin on a couple of pictures –Strange BehaviourandStrange Invaders, with their proposed thirdStrangefilm sadly never materialising.Behaviourwas a teen led horror film… of sorts. Not tooTwilight, though. And it’s also actually the source of my ‘number one, all time favourite party scene in any film ever’ and if you’ve seen it, you’ll know why. If I could find it on YouTube, I’d be embedding it right here.
Having said all of this… I don’t make the same connections between Condon and the sulky, stroppyTwilightmood that I can trace off to Coppola and van Sant.
Entertainment Weeklyhave confirmed with van Sant’s people that he had been approached, but Coppola and Condon’s teams were yet to comment. Whoever does sign on (and I’d imagine it may well be somebody else entirely) will probably be expected to commit to a very long production schedule, effectively making two films at once. Maybe Summit are planning different directors for each half of theBreaking Dawnproject, but I wouldn’t bet on it. Shame. Could be interesting.
