It looks like Gus Van Sant, Sofia Coppola, and Bill Condon have some company. The LA Times is reporting that Stephen Daldry, director of the Academy Award Winning, The Reader, The Hours, and Billy Elliott is in the Breaking Dawn hunt.
“Having already gone indie with Catherine Hardwicke, polished/commercial with Chris Weitz and genre auteur with David Slade for the franchise’s first three movies, Summit clearly wants a high-end Oscar- prestige filmmaker to handle the fourth picture.
Still, even by those standards, Daldry stands out. He’s been nominated for three Oscars, more than any of the other directors on the short list. In fact, Daldry is the rare filmmaker who’s been nominated for a best directing Oscar for every feature he’s made.
Those credentials make taking on a global teen phenomenon seem unlikely, though there are reasons to think it could work. The director is well-versed in depicting forbidden love (a “Twilight” staple) with “The Reader” and “The Hours.” And he’s adept at themes of family alienation, also a franchise fixture, which ran under “Billy Elliot.” Also, like most of the others, Daldry doesn’t yet have a new film.”
Read the rest of the article at the LA Times
[Source Via Twilightish]
2 comments:
I think this is HIGHLY unlikely. He'd insist on a decent budget, perfect editing, and a very polished script. I don't want to start a war, but I think some of the other movies have been lacking in these areas.
I find it very interesting they are looking at high end directors. I am very pleased and there is a lot of material in BD that needs to be presented just so, to keep the masses happy and a high end director could handle that much content.
Personally, I am pulling for Sofia. I feel a female director is what BD needs to pull off the mass amount of love and pain that come from Bella in terms of marriage/baby/turning etc.
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