Rotten Tomatoes: Eclipse – Summer Movie Preview

Rotten Tomatoes talks about The Twilght Saga:Eclipse as part of their Summer Movie Preview. Check it out!

The gang from Forks, Washington comes back for more to follow up on the box office successes of Twilight and New Moon, with some new friends in tow for the third installment of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire love story in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

In the continuation of this decade’s most iconic love story (seriously? Seriously.), a string of unsolved murders in the big city (Seattle) by an army of vampires brings Twilight’s semi-functional posse of vampires and werewolves together to fight a common enemy. And all hype aside, the essence of Twilight is the love story between Edward and Bella. Though Bella still has to wrestle with her feelings about her werewolf bud Jacob Black, and fans of the series certainly know where that’s headed, they sure won’t mind coming along for the ride.

Is it time for Bella and Edward to consummate their relationship? How will star Robert Pattinson react to more mobs of screaming fans that he once compared to the sounds at the “gates of Hell?” Twilighters, get your sleeping bags ready and save your pennies for the IMAX version. Movie theater owners, boyfriends that aren’t Edward or Jacob, and Will Smith’s July 4 weekend records, get ready: Eclipse dazzles audiences this Summer.

5 Cool Facts About Eclipse

 

Rotten Tomatoes has article featuring 5 cool facts about The Twilight Saga: Eclipse!

Fact #1: It’s Darker

The brand new poster for Eclipse (above) hints at a darker tone with its brooding storm clouds. With 30 Days of Night director David Slade at the helm, it’s unsurprising. “Every movie is different because we work with a different director on each one, which I love,” Taylor Lautner tells RT. “David Slade is perfect for the third film because it’s darker. Eclipse was my favourite book.”

Ashley Greene, who plays vampire Alice, tells RT that Slade isn’t just a prince of darkness. “David is actually hysterical,” she laughs, “He has such a dry sense of humour that sometimes you don’t know if he’s kidding or not. Eclipse will be amazing because he has made it far edgier and more dramatic. It’s going to look very cool.”

Fact #2: There Will Be Less “Love Story” and More “War”

“Eclipse isn’t as intimate as Twilight or New Moon,” Robert Pattinson explains to us. “We’re at war, so I get to interact with more characters, not just Kristen. You’ll also find out more about the other members of the Cullen family. It just feels bigger.” But — fear not, Twihards — that isn’t to say the love story is cast aside altogether. “New Moonset up a love triangle with Bella, Edward and Jacob,” says Lautner. “So we explore that further in Eclipse. It’s a tough situation for all of them because Bella is torn between two guys, Jacob can’t get the girl that he loves and then there’s Edward, with all of his issues.”

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Rotten Tomatoes on Chris Weitz’s Directing Style

Rotten Tomatoes has an awesome article outlining Chris Weitz’s style as a director,  what we can expect from him when it comes to New Moon and what he has brought to the table -

Coming into the project, Weitz’s filmmaking pedigree was already impressive. In the span of just a decade, he’s notched numerous successes under his belt, including an Oscar nomination (shared with brother Paul) for About a Boy; a hand in the successful American Pie franchise; and most recently, the honor of bringing Philip Pullman’s enormously weighty His Dark Materials novels to the big screen, in the form of 2007’s The Golden Compass. But our earliest familiarity with Weitz himself was as an actor in the darkly comic indie, Chuck & Buck, where he starred opposite Mike White’s obsessive man-child as Charlie (formerly known as Chuck), a yuppie record exec trying to put his past (and his childhood buddy, Buck) behind him.

Producer Wyck Godfrey, speaking exclusively to Rotten Tomatoes, surmised that Weitz’s own acting experience and affinity for actors made for a remarkably comfortable working environment on the set of New Moon: “I think having been in a movie himself and having acted before, he really trusts actors and I think they can really feel that inherently. And as a result, we’ve gotten much more authentic, very natural performances from all the actors.”

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