Bayona Confirmed to Direct Eclipse
I don’t have many rules here at the site, but one of the few I do have is that I don’t post about Twilight unless someone is totally bagging on it (like the story from awhile back where Stephen King said Stephanie Meyer wasn’t a very good writer). Every rule is made to be broken, though, and this is one of those occasions.
There’s been much speculation about who might direct a third film in the teen-angst vampire drama series. Drew Barrymore was a name getting tossed around last week–and she’d have probably fit in pretty well with this type of film. However, that’s old news now–and the fresh (and confirmed by Variety) skinny is that Juan Antonio Bayona will now direct Eclipse. For horror fans, this is both intriguing and terrifying news.
Bayona, who’s a Guillermo Del Toro protege, is best known for making the creepy 2007 film, The Orphanage. He’s also attached to direct Hater, a very cool sounding film based on a book by David Moody. With Eclipse scheduled to hit theaters in June of 2010, it seems like Hater might be going on the backburner–which bums me out.
I’m not sure why Bayona would really want to make Eclipse (aside from the obvious reason that they’re probably paying him well and more people will see it on opening weekend than saw The Orphanage in its full theatrical run) and his involvement isn’t enough to get me in a theater, but if there’s a director who could actually make one of these bullshit films interesting, this is the guy.
Tags: Eclipse, Juan Antonio Bayona, Stephanie Meyer, The Orphanage, vampires
