Twilight's Taylor Lautner and Academy Award winning Director Gus Van Sant attended the 8 pm performance of IRIS - A Journey Through The World of Cinema last week at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles.
Guests of IRIS Music Composer Danny Elfman, the duo (who are rumored to be working together on an upcoming project) went backstage to meet the cast of IRIS following the performance.
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
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Twilight Examiner Amanda Bell posts:
Roman Polanski has certainly been a newsworthy name of late. Putting aside the criminal tension surrounding him, his film The Ghost Writer has recently been acquired by Twilight series film studio Summit Entertainment, according to The New York Times.
As a consequence of that rights acquisition, at least one writer has taken the plunge in suggesting that Polanski should line up as the director for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.
IFC's Stephen Saito states that "I think it's time to start a push for the newest member of the Summit family to direct the fourth and final installment in the Twilight books."
While Saito acknowledges the fact that most Twilight fans have been pushing for The Twilight Saga: New Moon director Chris Weitz to helm the project since before the first screening of the movie, he states that there are several reasons why Polanski is a good fit - not the least of which is, "I'd have to suggest the austerity of the director of Rosemary's Baby might be able to come up with something even better" in reference to the birthing scene(s).
Of course, you'll know that there have been other directors pushed around in the suggestion box, including Gus Van Sant (mentioned by Robert Pattinson) and Tim Burton (by Jamie Campbell Bower). Ultimately, though, the matter rests in the balance.
Thoughts on the idea of a Polanski-run Breaking Dawn?
Also, rumours have been that Chris Weitz could return.... It's so difficult right now not knowing, though I realize as fans we ALWAYS want more... I feel so frustrated since Summit won't announce #1 - Breaking Dawn is a go (we all know it will be) #2 - If it will be two movies (we all think it should be) #3 - Who is directing it? #4 - annoucen where it will be filmed
Come on Summit!
