Twilight Weekly Wrap: New Moon Title Clarity, Eclipse, Casting, and Contest by Larson Hill
With less than a month to go before the Twilight sequel New Moon heads into production, the past week of news surrounding the Twilight saga has generated even more buzz for the Stephenie Meyer based franchise and the third, upcoming Twilight film, Eclipse. While Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and the cast of Twilight, made their way overseas for the Twilight premiere in Japan, a flurry of New Moon related news hit the web. The latest buzz fueled speculation about who may be in line to direct Eclipse now that word has come down the Twilight pike that New Moon director Chris Weitz won't be returning to helm the third big screen adaptation. Also, despite reports that New Moon received a "new" title amid recently released logo artwork that reads Twilight Saga New Moon, the widely reported title change isn't quite what it appears to be.
New Moon Casting Complete?
Most recently there have been reports floating around that casting director Joseph Middleton apparently confirmed that the casting process for New Moon is complete despite no official word from Summit Entertainment. Since the end of February, some outlets have been speculating that the news indicates Dakota Fanning and actress Vanessa Hudgens are now cut out of the mix while others suggest nothing is definite. What's our take? It looks like any minute, hour or day now we'll be seeing the official cast list from Summit Entertainment that will give us the answers.
Twilight Scorecard: Rumors 1, Official Confirmation 0.
Eclipse Director's Chair?
Earlier this week EW reported that rumors were circulating that actress Drew Barrymore was in the running to direct the third Twilight adaptation, Eclipse, since it was confirmed that New Moon director Chris Weitz would not be returning to helm Eclipse. In the same "casting complete" report, however, appearing on LivePR.com, word has it that director Paul Weitz, brother of Chris Weitz, would be stepping in to direct Eclipse and that the Drew Barrymore rumors were false. Still, amid all of the rumors, there's been no official word from Summit Entertainment on who will be directing Eclipse.
Twilight Scorecard: Rumors 2, Official Confirmation 0.
Bronson Pelletier
Last week saw even more New Moon buzz as word rocketed down the Twilight pike that Canadian actor Bronson Pelletier had been confirmed a role in New Moon after Pelletier's management company, Carrier Talent Management, congratulated Bronson on their website with "Congratulations to Bronson who scores a lead role in the highly anticipated 'Twilight' feature film sequel 'New Moon'."
Twilight Scorecard: Rumors 2, Official Confirmation 1
New Moon Walk-on Role Contest
Exactly what the title says. Head on over to www.twilightthemovie.com for the official rules and how you can be immortalized in New Moon.
Twilight Scorecard: Rumors 2, Official Confirmation 2
New Moon is simply ... New Moon
Last week Summit Entertainment released the official logo artwork for the upcoming Twilight sequel New Moon, with the words The Twilight Saga New Moon. However, when the New Moon logo was announced, outlets began to report that the official title for New Moon had been upgraded to The Twilight Saga New Moon, with some outlets even reporting that the title was The Twilight Saga's New Moon. One look at the logo and it was assumed that the New Moon title had been changed.
The funny thing was, however, amid the flurry of Twilight activity is that no one stopped to think that the Stephenie Meyer book is actually titled New Moon - nothing more, nothing less. So why would the official title be changed to The Twilight Saga New Moon? When you stop and think about it for a second, it doesn't really make sense. And when you visit the Summit Entertainment website, both movies are still titled and being referred to as the same title as the books, as reflected in the Summit press release about the Eclipse release date - "Summit Entertainment announced today that ECLIPSE, the third film in the TWILIGHT saga, will be released theatrically in North America on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Melissa Rosenberg, who wrote the scripts for both TWILIGHT and NEW MOON, is currently writing the script for ECLIPSE and continues to consult with TWILIGHT book series author Stephenie Meyer."
Anyone see the words "Twilight Saga" or "Twilight's Saga" in Summit's wording?
When you look closer at the New Moon logo, nowhere in the artwork is the possessive word "Saga's". As reported by E! last week, plus an e-mail that we received from an anonymous source after the E! clarification story broke, New Moon is simply "New Moon." The tidbit we received supported the E! story, which stated, "Just to give you guys a heads up on the New Moon title that everyone's reporting from the logo story, the 'Twilight Saga' addition is just letting people know that it's connected to the Twilight series for those who may not know. It's still New Moon like the book." Whatever the official case is, we'll still be referring to New Moon as New Moon. Also worth noting is that the contest wording on the website refers to New Moon as simply New Moon, too.
Twilight Scorecard: Disqualified since it appears to be nothing more than a knee-jerk assumption on everyone's part.
It is amazing the first time i saw it i feLL in love with edward !!!! i have neVER REALLY READ BOOKS BUT EVER SCENE I SAW TWILGHT I HAVE READ ALL OF THEM TWLIGHT ,NEW MOON ECLIPES AND BRAKING DOWN .... WOOT WOOT GO EDWARD ; P
Lelei – Sacramento, CA
March 09, 2009 - 03:50
Subject: suggestion for cast of new moon
I think since this movie is already a great hit with some virtually unkown actors- New Moon would be awesome if it added some serious experienced talent for the Volturi Here are my suggestions:
Mads Mikkelson (Le Chief) from Casino Royale
James Franco (any role)
Zachary Quinto (any role)
Josh Hartnett (any role)
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (any role)
Hayden Christensen (any role)
i fell in love with edward cullen since i saw him the first time.......they should never ever change the characters Rob Pattinson will always be Edward Cullen and no can replace him <3 Rob Pattinson has inspired me to be an actriz and i will never loose hope that one day I'll meet him. Thanx
Maggie* – vista
March 04, 2009 - 17:23
Subject: Rio De Janeiro
can you spell beautiful??? man...can't wait for new moon, eclipse, then braeking dawn! wow. im going to LOVE them! <333
Kelly
March 04, 2009 - 14:37
Subject: RUSHING
As much as I can't wait to see these books made into movies, I think they are getting to far ahead of themselves. I'd really like them to put more thought into these movies instead of just making sure to have them out for a certain date. I'm soooooo worried these movies are gonna bomb! Twilight certainly wasn't great, it was mediocre. I want to see an awesome remake of the books damnit!!
Jamie
March 04, 2009 - 11:01
Subject: WOW!!
i am super happy that we wont have to wait
for another year before we can see eclipse.
but i do think that the movies should be
titled the same as the books are.
but we can't change everything. Does
anybody know when the twilight DVD
is going to be released?
i am really happy about the new moon movie but i think if they change the title my happiness about it will decrease a bit!! I fell in love with jasper and emmet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think that edward was a bit odd though?
Barbie – Mexico
March 03, 2009 - 01:41
Subject:
Oh, and so did the Eclipse theatrical release, we watch New Moon on Nov, 20th, 2009, and we don't have to wait a whole year for Eclipse, no no no, we just have to wait six months, so that made my day, too.
Barbie – Mexico
March 03, 2009 - 01:36
Subject: the movie title.
About the whole Twilight Saga's New Moon, that thing of making it just "New Moon" just made my day.
Harper – Sydney, Australia
March 02, 2009 - 23:11
Subject: This stuff
Hehe, I'm so geed for New Moon and, now, Eclipse as well! Any money, coz I'm just waiting for its release, that this year is gonna go reeeeally slowly lol. Does anyone know if it will come out in Australia on the 20th of November?? We're so behind on everything so probably not But I hope it does!! New Moon is my favourite out of all the books - I tried reading Twilight yet again the other day, and I couldn't bring myself to read it coz I just wanted to read New Moon. Eheee okay, thanks for allowing me this time to ramble
Reply to Harper
dwayne russle – perth australia
March 03, 2009 - 05:11
Subject: Re: This stuff
i agrre with u man were so behind in oz it suc twilight ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
melissaj – Tucson
March 02, 2009 - 22:03
Subject: Look at the back of the paper cover of the books
All, Look at the back of the book paper protector. It says the Twilight Saga and lists the books, so don't get worked up about it.
With less than a month to go before the Twilight sequel New Moon heads into production, the past week of news surrounding the Twilight saga has generated even more buzz for the Stephenie Meyer based franchise and the third, upcoming Twilight film, Eclipse. While Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and the cast of Twilight, made their way overseas for the Twilight premiere in Japan, a flurry of New Moon related news hit the web. The latest buzz fueled speculation about who may be in line to direct Eclipse now that word has come down the Twilight pike that New Moon director Chris Weitz won't be returning to helm the third big screen adaptation. Also, despite reports that New Moon received a "new" title amid recently released logo artwork that reads Twilight Saga New Moon, the widely reported title change isn't quite what it appears to be.
Earlier this week EW reported that rumors were circulating that actress Drew Barrymore was in the running to direct the third Twilight adaptation, Eclipse, since it was confirmed that New Moon director Chris Weitz would not be returning to helm Eclipse. In the same "casting complete" report, however, appearing on LivePR.com, word has it that director Paul Weitz, brother of Chris Weitz, would be stepping in to direct Eclipse and that the Drew Barrymore rumors were false. Still, amid all of the rumors, there's been no official word from Summit Entertainment on who will be directing Eclipse.
Last week Summit Entertainment released the official logo artwork for the upcoming Twilight sequel New Moon, with the words The Twilight Saga New Moon. However, when the New Moon logo was announced, outlets began to report that the official title for New Moon had been upgraded to The Twilight Saga New Moon, with some outlets even reporting that the title was The Twilight Saga's New Moon. One look at the logo and it was assumed that the New Moon title had been changed.
When you look closer at the New Moon logo, nowhere in the artwork is the possessive word "Saga's". As reported by E! last week, plus an e-mail that we received from an anonymous source after the E! clarification story broke, New Moon is simply "New Moon." The tidbit we received supported the E! story, which stated, "Just to give you guys a heads up on the New Moon title that everyone's reporting from the logo story, the 'Twilight Saga' addition is just letting people know that it's connected to the Twilight series for those who may not know. It's still New Moon like the book." Whatever the official case is, we'll still be referring to New Moon as New Moon. Also worth noting is that the contest wording on the website refers to New Moon as simply New Moon, too.
But I hope it does!! New Moon is my favourite out of all the books - I tried reading Twilight yet again the other day, and I couldn't bring myself to read it coz I just wanted to read New Moon. Eheee okay, thanks for allowing me this time to ramble