I love his reaction. There are many blockbusters that never get Oscar nominations so I don't know why TMZ is picking on him, but he handles it well.
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David Slade Signs Eclipse DVDs and Bids Farewell To the Saga...
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"Dark Del signing my last official duty under the Twilight Saga regime" |
To celebrate the DVD/Blu-Ray release of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse this weekend, director David Slade appeared at Dark Delicacies in Burbank, California to sign discs for fans and promote his favorite horror shop at the same time.
Photos, videos, and accounts of the appearance can be found here at TwiFans.
Slade tweeted about the appearance, saying "Thanks to everyone who braved the LA winter at Dark Del this evening. It was a fun event, now resting my signing arm for a while." He later issued this photo of an exit sign, saying "Dark Del signing my last official duty under the Twilight Saga regime."
Having David Slade, as the film's director, on Twitter certainly brought forth some interesting insight into the creation of the movie. It was a unique way to include Twilight fans in the making-of process. Now that his work with Eclipse is done, it'll be very interesting to see what he chooses to do next.
Speaking of David Slade, you may enjoy some of his newest interviews, which can be found here and here. In the latter of the two, with HitFix, Slade discusses a bit about what is next for him. Farewell, David Slade!
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Eonline: Breaking Dawn: If Eclipse Director Was in Charge!
By now you’ve seen the pics of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart Edward and Bella making out on the beach.
We could only imagine what they would have been doing if Eclipse director David Slade had been hired for Breaking Dawn, too…
“I would have probably gone after it,” Slade says of racier scenes in the final installment of the Twilight franchise. “I’m kind of fairly tenacious that way."I'd have probably done a special red band version if it were up to me," he laughed. "But no, poor ole Bill Condon has that task."
As for Eclipse (out on DVD tomorrow), Slade did reveal that there was some chatter of turning it into a 3-D flick. But the talks didn't get very far.
"There was talk of a conversion, but it was really idle talk," he explained. "I think it's really difficult to justify converting a film that wasn't shot in 3-D into 3-D. I really do believe, as does James Cameron and all the people who are actually pro-3-D, that you have to go out and shoot it that way. You have nothing but compromise if you don't."
So much for Robert Pattinson jumping off the screen and into your lap.
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Kristen Stewart stressed during Twilight Eclipse shoot: 'There were tears'!
When David Slade appeared on the stage of pop culture following its overwhelming success at Sundance, Hard Candy, with a courageous candidate as a victim, Ellen Page, the last thing you expect to learn from this man is his deep belief in the concept of romantic love.
As the story says the threat of a violation involving a minor, Hard Candy is like one of the testimonies of the most basic of human-animal which the director takes the form of new generation as Neil Labute - a operator able to balance the absolute contempt towards the human species with a dry sense of humor.
It is a risky endeavor, but a stylish Slade took it off with a spectacular sleight of hand.
Slade put his hand in the same bag of tricks when he was called for filming The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, which arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on Saturday.
The story of a young woman named Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) who falls madly in love with a vampire named Edward Cullen embedded (Robert Pattinson), stalked by a werewolf lover named Jacob (Taylor Lautner), the whole Twilight Saga is a girl at risk.
In this case, Stewart is at risk of losing your mortal soul. In Hard Candy, Page was in danger of losing a similar piece of herself, and - we suspect - his life.
"Hard Candy it was definitely a different beast in some ways, because the drama was based on two people, with the brilliant performance by Ellen Page, "says Slade.
"Eclipse was much broader ... But it remains a character-based drama. That's what I really enjoyed it, "he says. "I think it's also a more adult movie than the previous two, since the characters are becoming more mature. There are a lot of fun to interpret, and because we treat it as a drama, the true transformation of character. "
The foundation was always between flesh and blood, but Slade said that the practice was anything but easy. Feel exhausted just remembering the experience.
"It was a shooting 50 days, 16 hours in many of those days, "he says.
To make matters worse, the deal was lost in his own world of Twilight. All the actors had to give up his duties, and inhabit their characters to some extent on the duration of production, so that Slade was pleased that his staff was taking the project seriously and sincerely.
Everyone was committed, he says.
"Kristen In particular, it was very hard for her."
Slade says, not because Stewart pulled his own life and his own person to play Bella Swan, she personally took a lot for finding the truth of Bella.
"She said, 'I do not know which is Bella for me. " Anyway, I think she felt that Bella was the antithesis of it, which presented many challenges to Kristen .... She would give him a beating for this, because she wants to be there. She did not want to leave a scene without. "
"There were tears, "says Slade.
"But you move on .... Even in rehearsals with Robert Pattinson, was that similar spiral. "
Actors are people. They feel insecure, and any human being who was facing the weight of expectation surrounding the Twilight would have to go wrong, if only slightly. To compensate for much of the obsession with the actress, Slade says he has learned the value of preparation.
He says he rehearses with his actors as much as possible, so they feel comfortable with the material and characters, and focuses on the minutiae of interpretation without the intrusive presence of the camera.
"You're always looking to get the emotional truth of the interpretation, "he says. And Twilight, the emotional truth is nothing less than blood-red heart of romantic love - that happens from the heart of Slade, who, despite having 41, was supposed to be in a more cynical generation.
"I believe in romantic love. Why did not you'll be lucky if you are lucky enough to find it? It sounds as if it were sarcastic ... Culture cynical plan, and I hate to use the letter-c. Perhaps the idea spread that romantic love is not fashionable. But true love is wonderful. "
Slade says that romantic love is the addictive hook in the narrative of Twilight, but after reading Stephenie Meyer's books, he also feels that there are many more issues than just vampires and teen romance
"It's a love story that struggles with the problems of the past century," he says. "And I got the best book. We had the battle epic, action ... everything."
Slade said that leaves a high point in history, and this is one of the great lessons I've learned along the way: The preparation will save your skin, but coordination is what makes it great.
He'd love to share with others what they do now, says Slade, but can not. Finally, we make sure that it will be interesting, be well prepared and approximated with an open heart and carotid test with a vampire.
Eclipse will hit shelves on December 4 on DVD and Blu-ray.
As the story says the threat of a violation involving a minor, Hard Candy is like one of the testimonies of the most basic of human-animal which the director takes the form of new generation as Neil Labute - a operator able to balance the absolute contempt towards the human species with a dry sense of humor.
It is a risky endeavor, but a stylish Slade took it off with a spectacular sleight of hand.
Slade put his hand in the same bag of tricks when he was called for filming The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, which arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on Saturday.
The story of a young woman named Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) who falls madly in love with a vampire named Edward Cullen embedded (Robert Pattinson), stalked by a werewolf lover named Jacob (Taylor Lautner), the whole Twilight Saga is a girl at risk.
In this case, Stewart is at risk of losing your mortal soul. In Hard Candy, Page was in danger of losing a similar piece of herself, and - we suspect - his life.
"Hard Candy it was definitely a different beast in some ways, because the drama was based on two people, with the brilliant performance by Ellen Page, "says Slade.
"Eclipse was much broader ... But it remains a character-based drama. That's what I really enjoyed it, "he says. "I think it's also a more adult movie than the previous two, since the characters are becoming more mature. There are a lot of fun to interpret, and because we treat it as a drama, the true transformation of character. "
The foundation was always between flesh and blood, but Slade said that the practice was anything but easy. Feel exhausted just remembering the experience.
"It was a shooting 50 days, 16 hours in many of those days, "he says.
To make matters worse, the deal was lost in his own world of Twilight. All the actors had to give up his duties, and inhabit their characters to some extent on the duration of production, so that Slade was pleased that his staff was taking the project seriously and sincerely.
Everyone was committed, he says.
"Kristen In particular, it was very hard for her."
Slade says, not because Stewart pulled his own life and his own person to play Bella Swan, she personally took a lot for finding the truth of Bella.
"She said, 'I do not know which is Bella for me. " Anyway, I think she felt that Bella was the antithesis of it, which presented many challenges to Kristen .... She would give him a beating for this, because she wants to be there. She did not want to leave a scene without. "
"There were tears, "says Slade.
"But you move on .... Even in rehearsals with Robert Pattinson, was that similar spiral. "
Actors are people. They feel insecure, and any human being who was facing the weight of expectation surrounding the Twilight would have to go wrong, if only slightly. To compensate for much of the obsession with the actress, Slade says he has learned the value of preparation.
He says he rehearses with his actors as much as possible, so they feel comfortable with the material and characters, and focuses on the minutiae of interpretation without the intrusive presence of the camera.
"You're always looking to get the emotional truth of the interpretation, "he says. And Twilight, the emotional truth is nothing less than blood-red heart of romantic love - that happens from the heart of Slade, who, despite having 41, was supposed to be in a more cynical generation.
"I believe in romantic love. Why did not you'll be lucky if you are lucky enough to find it? It sounds as if it were sarcastic ... Culture cynical plan, and I hate to use the letter-c. Perhaps the idea spread that romantic love is not fashionable. But true love is wonderful. "
Slade says that romantic love is the addictive hook in the narrative of Twilight, but after reading Stephenie Meyer's books, he also feels that there are many more issues than just vampires and teen romance
"It's a love story that struggles with the problems of the past century," he says. "And I got the best book. We had the battle epic, action ... everything."
Slade said that leaves a high point in history, and this is one of the great lessons I've learned along the way: The preparation will save your skin, but coordination is what makes it great.
He'd love to share with others what they do now, says Slade, but can not. Finally, we make sure that it will be interesting, be well prepared and approximated with an open heart and carotid test with a vampire.
Eclipse will hit shelves on December 4 on DVD and Blu-ray.
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'EW' Interview WIth David Slade says people on set were potty mouthed
From EW
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse hits DVD and Blu-ray on Dec. 4. After watching the special features, we had a few burning questions, which director David Slade (pictured, with Kristen Stewart) happily fielded.
1. Why doesn’t he do a commentary track? Slade is obviously well-represented in the feature-length making-of documentary and introduces and provides context for deleted and extended scenes, but he’s not on either of the two commentary tracks over the movie — he leaves those to Stephenie Meyer and producer Wyck Godfrey, and Stewart and Robert Pattinson (she’s in Montreal, jealous that he’s in L.A. eating In-N-Out). “It’s a choice I made after doing my first ever and last ever commentary on my first film Hard Candy,” he says. “I did a commentary for that and found it such an unsatisfactory experience, personally, that I vowed never to do it again, because I’m not very good at it. You work for a year-and-a-half, two years, however long it is on a film, and it’s a very personal experience as well as a very public experience. There’s so much catharsis that goes into it, and then you end up sitting in a little room and you reduce what was an intense amount of work down to a crappy, silly little anecdote usually. ‘It was raining that day.’ [Laughs] I just found it to be really disheartening, and, like I say, I’m not really good at it. I didn’t do one for my second film [30 Days of Night] either.”
2. Listening to Stephenie and Wyck’s commentary, you hear a lot of the discussions that went on on-set, like debating how Jacob should kiss Bella both times, and you realize what a collaborative experience making a Twilight film must be. Is that helpful or more challenging as a director? “If you’re in sync with everybody, the collaboration is second nature. What you’re doing is looking for the best ideas and utilizing them. Certainly there is a lot of collaboration, but there is also a lot of clarity that has to be had in the vision that you have for the film when you come in as the director. Without that, there’s no bullseye to be aiming for,” he says. “There’s all kinds of things that we can discuss, but at the end of the day, I’m the guy that has to go off and get the shot… Film is always a fight because you’re the person, as the director, with a clear picture in your head of what you think is really exciting, and you’re just trying to convince a bunch of other people to buy into that. That’s always gonna be a tough ride, particularly when there’s two very successful films that have gone beforehand. There’s a tendency to think safely. ‘We have something that works. Why would we change this or that?’ Anything that was changed, they took lots of discussion. But there was nothing that was like everybody disagrees. There were only discussions to get to a point where everybody was comfortable.” One example: The shattering vampires in Eclipse. “I was really fascinated with the pathology of the creatures. There’s one thing to write something from an emotional place when she imagined it, a dream of a man who’s made of diamonds, which is now the mythology and the lore that goes into how she describes Edward Cullen. But then to me, well, that’s esoteric. I have to make something really tangible. So let’s get pathological, let’s figure out why do they shine, and therefore what are they made of, and therefore why do they break?,” Slade says. “There was a certain balance that had to be struck between a really great visual image and also what would work for Stephenie. One of the things I remember was the size of the pieces. You couldn’t have biscuit-size pieces around because people might find them. Which is fair enough. We would have to then adapt our effects work to make sure there were no biscuit-size pieces. There were big chunks that broke off that could all be found and burned, because in the books, of course they continue to live. They’re not inanimate, those little pieces will crawl around, which we took cinematic license not to do.”
3. Why don’t we see all the deleted scenes described in the commentaries on the DVD? Stewart describes the first thing she shot on the movie — a “fairly ridiculous” sequence in which she imagined herself in the fireside flashback as the Quileute elder chief’s third wife, who stabbed and sacrificed herself to distract the vengeful female vampire attacking the village. Meyer and Godfrey describe people laughing when they saw it. Understandable that they would choose not to include it. Ditto the scene Bella imagined after her kiss with Jacob on the mountain. She saw them having grown old together. “There were a lot of issues with prosthetic makeup,” Slade says with a groan, then a laugh. “It gives me a bit of a shiver, as a filmmaker. As an idea, it was wonderful. What happens with a film is it becomes organic and it grows, and it tells you what it wants, and it was screaming loudly, ‘I don’t want that!’ to me.” Another scene described in the commentaries never actually got shot. “Stephenie really wanted to see Edward as a young man again, and we had this vision scripted for a while where Bella and he are together in Victorian times, as a kind of reverie,” Slade says.
4. Did he ever toss a grape into Taylor Lautner’s mouth between takes? The making-of documentary occasionally breaks into “Taylor Time” (there’s even a graphic) during which we see Lautner having fun on-set. Slade’s assistant and Stewart are seen throwing grapes that Lautner catches in his mouth from a good distance away. Did the director ever partake in that game? “Not me,” he says. “I watched in astonishment and photographed him backflipping from a standstill, which he does. I also got to witness how he terrorized, in a very good-natured way, the bodyguards that were hired to make sure that they were all fine. He would play practical jokes on them all the time. It was quite a lot of fun.”
5. Why don’t we get a blooper reel on the DVD? Kristen and Rob talk about how people fell a lot on the fake snow. That, for instance, we would have liked to have seen. “We had a blooper reel, but I think people were pretty potty-mouthed,” Slade says. “I think you can put that down to bad language.”
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David Slade Talks About Bella & Edward's Wedding
From NextMovie
Any Twi-Hard knows that Bella Swan’s extravagant wedding to her handsome vampire suitor occurs in the beginning of series closer “Breaking Dawn” — chapter three, to be exact.
But according to David Slade, the director of the “Twilight Saga: Eclipse” adaptation, it might have come a little earlier on the big screen.
“We discussed a lot of the things at the script-writing stage — at one point, we were even going to shoot the wedding at the end of ["Eclipse"] but we knew there was another film coming,” Slade tells NextMovie exclusively.
“We knew that a lot of that could go into the next film. And we just made the most concise version of this story that we could.”
Any Twi-Hard knows that Bella Swan’s extravagant wedding to her handsome vampire suitor occurs in the beginning of series closer “Breaking Dawn” — chapter three, to be exact.
But according to David Slade, the director of the “Twilight Saga: Eclipse” adaptation, it might have come a little earlier on the big screen.
“We discussed a lot of the things at the script-writing stage — at one point, we were even going to shoot the wedding at the end of ["Eclipse"] but we knew there was another film coming,” Slade tells NextMovie exclusively.
“We knew that a lot of that could go into the next film. And we just made the most concise version of this story that we could.”
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