2008 December 02 — New Moon Movie

So, we’ve gotten a look at the wolves from the Twilight universe, but there’s going to be a lot more to see in New Moon. Transformations–particularly that of Jacob to big brute–are fun to speculate about. In fact, director Catherine Hardwicke recently noted that:

“The wolves will be tricky, because they are supposed to be these giant wolves,” she continued. “Is it going to be CGI, real wolves or a combination? There are five standard industry ways of doing it. Which will be most effective. When you read the book, you see how quickly they transform, and you see the shredding clothes and the popping collars, so that’s a challenge. How does that read on film? How does that translate to film? What you normally do is you do tests. You figure out some things that are working better, and things that are not working better. You try them out, hopefully, on real people.”

Obviously, a lot of thought is being put into how to make the werewolves look amazing. So let’s take a look at past monsters from Hollywood to see which direction New Moon might go with for the packs of werewolves that will appear in New Moon. [click to continue…]

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The LA Times has an entertaining look at why Breaking Dawn should not be a movie. Huge spoilers abound, but if you have read the book, look ahead for some hilarious points–

By Page 118 (in a 754-page book) Bella is with child. At this point, the film would already be worse than a Lifetime movie of the week.
What follows are chapters and chapters of the half-vampire, half-human baby making life violently uncomfortable for Bella, which required Meyer to let Jacob narrate the e ntire middle chunk of the book. So in the final movie, we’d shift our focus from Bella to Jacob?

Also, questions of whether the movie could meet a PG-13 movie is succinctly put–

When she gives birth, Edward rips open Bella’s stomach with his teeth to get the baby out.
It’s a bloody and gruesome birth. And what does the little bugger do once she’s out? Sinks her half-vampire teeth into mom’s chest, that’s what. What follows is an equally bloody and gruesome transformation of our teenage heroine into a vampire. How any of the birth scene gets magically transformed into a PG-13 moment is anyone’s guess.

‘Twilight’: 10 reasons ‘Breaking Dawn’ should not be made into a movie

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