Nikki Finke is hot on top of the Twilight director saga as she is now reporting that Summit has offered Chris Weitz (The Golden Compass) helming duties on New Moon and possibly Eclipse as well. Here’s the report:
Yes, he’s had tremendous success working with tweens and teens (About A Boy as director and writer, American Pie as producer and uncredited director). But Chris Weitz also did The Golden Compass (as writer and director), and my source says Summit Entertainment liked the look of that even if it didn’t heat up the domestic box office (but did better overseas). I don’t have official confirmation yet that this Twilight sequel offer has gone out to Weitz. But my insider says another reason it came down is because Weitz and Summit’s president of production Eric Feig are longtime pals. The source tells me Weitz is “still considering” the offer to helm New Moon and possibly also Eclipse if the sequel and threequel movie adaptations of Stephenie Meyer’s series of vampire books are made back-to-back.
Of course, this is 100-percent unconfirmed and I wouldn’t even report it had Finke not been the first to break the news Catherine Hardwicke was off the franchise. Stay tuned.
