More trouble in New Moon land. Two sources have told Entertainment Weekly that Summit doesn’t want to bring Taylor Lautner back as Jacob in the sequel.
Lautner’s agent has apparently reached out to the imaging company behind The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in an attempt to demonstrate to Summit how a digitally bulked-up Lautner could work. (Summit says it won’t make a decision until a new filmmaker is on board.) There’s also the matter of finding a cast of Native American actors to play Jacob’s werewolf clan — a difficult challenge Hardwicke was also faced with before settling on Lautner, who isn’t completely Native American. And with a slightly increased budget of $50 million — much of which is assumed will go to leads asking for heftier paydays, location shoots in Italy, and ramped-up F/X — Summit will have to scrimp somewhere.
I’m not sure about how smart it is to spend tons of money on digital FX just to make Jacob look bigger, as he buffs out to play the wolfman. That money could be spent better elsewhere–oh, I dunno, on a great script perhaps? The story is what matters, after all.
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