Twilight Director Catherine Hardwicke Will NOT Return For New Moon!
Catherine Hardwicke, director of Twilight, has been officially announced as NOT directing New Moon, the upcoming sequel set to be released in late 2009 / early 2010!
Here are official starements:
“I am sorry that due to timing I will not have the opportunity to direct New Moon,” said Hardwicke. “Directing Twilight has been one of the great experiences of my life, and I am grateful to the fans for their passionate support of the film. I wish everyone at Summit the best with the sequel– it is a great story.”
“Catherine did an incredible job in helping us to launch the Twilight franchise and we thank her for all of her efforts and we very much hope to work with her on future Summit projects,” said Erik Feig, Summit’s President of Production. “We as a studio have a mandate to bring the next installment in the franchise to the big screen in a timely fashion so that fans can get more of Edward, Bella and all of the characters that Stephenie Meyer has created. We are able to pursue an aggressive time frame as we have the luxury of only adapting the novels into screenplays as opposed to having to create a storyline from scratch.”
Very big news, pretty crazy, but the best news is that we’ll get New Moon AT LEAST by early 2010…AWESOME! :]
