So imagine that friend of yours who was bashing on the Twilight series, and then weeks later the movie comes out and you bump into that friend standing in line to see the film? Whoops.
Now imagine you are a director and you bash on the Twilight film saying you would sooner be shot in the head than go see Twilight. Then later it is announced that same director was now directing a Twilight movie? Whoops.
This is essentially what happened with David Slade. He was recorded on a radio show offering up some negative speculation on Twilight, and now he is signed on to direct its third chapter.
/Film transcribes the radio interview quoting Slade:
…and so yesterday we were trying to find a movie to see and we’d seen all the good ones, you know, and there was nothing really coming out this weekend that we really fancied at all and having directed a vampire film and really gone for something completely different to the kind of romantic, you know, repressed hormone teen vampire movie we really weren’t interested in seeing Twilight but a lot of people said lets go so I wrote –
“Twilight drunk? No, not even drunk. Twilight on acid? No, not even on acid? Twilight at gun point? Just shoot me.”
[That’s like] a poem in a way […] at this point excites me even though people think I’m a really violent and unpleasant person I actually do have this romantic violent side to me. Maybe I should have seen Twilight.
It’s not a dooming statement, and he does preface it as saying he wasn’t interested since he already directed a vampire teen romance so it sounds like he is just joking around. Also this recording was dug up from long before Slade was considered or offered the job to direct Twilight’s third film Eclipse. It makes me wonder why he chose to take the job, or if his personal feelings about the franchise ever came into consideration when he was offered the job. Is this just a paycheque?
This was recorded around the time Twilight first was released, and perhaps since then he has changed his opinion on the matter. Who knows?
I think Slade is a good fit for the franchise, and I hope he has found some sort of appreciation of it. If a director or actor is just not into what they are doing, the final product is often affected, so with any luck for Twilight Fans, Slade has since come around.
/Film also has the audio clip online at their site for those who want to hear it.
