Well, serious directors do put their own mark on fundamentally commercial projects (eg, Scorsese with The Departed, Kubrick and The Shining, Polanski with any number of projects). And accorsing to this report, Bill Condon's Twilight entry will differ from the others:ITALIANO wrote:As for Bill Condon, I mean, when a supposedly serious director has to make a movie from a commercial teenage saga, I cant say anything because it would be unfair - I never kick someone who's already down. Let's hope that he will do this job fast and get to more personal projects soon.
BILL CONDON PROMISES TO MAKE FINAL TWILIGHT FILM "WAY MORE GAY"
Academy Award-Wining Director Has Big, Gay Plans for Final Chapter
Now that he appears to be in the finishing stages of signing on to helm Breaking Dawn, the last film (possibly two films) in the hugely successful Twilight series, director Bill Condon is opening up about his plans for his adaptation of the final chapter.
“There’s always been a pretty gay element to theTwlight movies — it’s hard to see all those fetishistic shots of the ripped, shirtless boys in New Moon and argue with that,” Condon said. “I’m hoping to take it to the next level. The next level of gayness.”
Condon, 54, is the writer/director of the films Gods and Monsters, a fictionalized biopic of homosexual filmmaker James Whale; Kinsey, about famed sex researcher Alfred Kinsey (who, in the film, engages in same-sex relations with one of his research assistants) and Dreamgirls, a musical.
“I want to retain the basic elements that Stephanie Meyer included in Breaking Dawn,” the director added. “But I want to add many more gay elements. I haven’t decided yet what those will be. Maybe everyone will have goatees.”
“We know the Twilight movies are a huge hit with female audiences,” said a representative for Summit Films, the studio responsible for releasing the popular movie series. “We’re hoping that by gaying upBreaking Dawn, we can break into at least a section of the male audience, too. Bill Condon is just the director to do that, and we’re thrilled at the prospect of working with him.”
Not everyone is happy about the direction Condon is planning to take Breaking Dawn. Jake Brannen, a 20-year old college student in Muncie, Indiana, says he’s concerned about how a gayer Twilight will make him look.
“I like my Twilight just the way it is,” Brannen said. “A beautiful abstinence parable about a teenage girl named Bella Swan who falls in love with a vampire who sparkles like brilliant diamonds when the sun hits him, only they can’t be together because of ancient vampire rules passed down from Rome. Also, there’s an American Indian who’s also a werewolf, and he falls in love with a baby. If Twilight starts to include gay stuff, I might be embarrassed to admit I like it."
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I actually love the fact that this board is "elitist." It's the only film site I post on because it is the one with an extremely high level of intelligence. I mean do we really want to have a bunch of screaming banshees like Gold Derby (which, admittedly, I haven't looked atin over a year). Even Awards Watch, which has a knowledgeable group of followers, can get overly fan-boy.
Marco, LOL over Anne Shirley vs. Andrea Leeds.