The rumour that Catherine Hardwicke was being called in to “save” Twilight Eclipse are tearing up the internet this morning. Well its only part right. They did order some reshoots, but Hardwicke is not the person they asked to take on the job. With her very public falling out with Summit, I doubt she would ever be a fallback director to “save” something.
CinemaBlend has the skinny:
According to their sources Twilight: Eclipse is being reshot but neither Catherine Hardwicke nor Twilight: New Moon director Chris Weitz will have anything to do with it. They’ve spoken to Summit representatives who insist that everything’s peach keen between David Slade and Summit and that he’s going to handle the reshoots himself because Summit is so “happy” with his work on the film that they want him to redo parts of it. That doesn’t make sense and it sounds a lot like PR spin which is only slightly more reliable than the random, anonymous sources circulating in the original rumor.
Now there is a little double talk in there. If they are so happy, then why reshoot? But in the bigger picture, they might be very happy with most of the film, but have a few scenes that could use some tweaking that the cutting room cant fix, and they want them redone. And making the original Director who shot the film do those retakes does show confidence.
Reshoots are more common than we hear about online, but its typically the ones where they have to bring in another director to help that make people worry.
