Show us the money! Despite insisting they’re not rushing their “Twilight” franchise, Summit Entertainment is fast-tracking their sequel “New Moon” and have just announced its tentative release for November 20, 2009, basically one year after the release of the original movie.
A year to shoot, edit and release? If that’s not a fast-track we’re not sure what is and this must be further evidence to note that Catherine Hardwicke didn’t want to half-ass it and Summit is basically ok with that, even though they claim they have an awesome script. Suuuuure you do.
The shit-canning of Hardwicke was lame enough, but it seems like the bottom dollar is all that matters. They’re basically jackasses for throwing her under the bus. She made “Twilight” and this is the thanks she gets? Then they through out that bullshit about her being “difficult” to save their asses.
According to EW, sources say it wasn’t that at all and that:
Summit’s aggressive production schedule turned her off. “She’d love to do the sequel if she could do it better than Twilight,” says one. “It became clear that Summit didn’t have those same priorities.”
Further proof Summit is full of shit? They’ve already said they’re very happy with the script and Hardwicke musta been nuts for not liking it (or whatever cockamamie it was that they inferred), but EW says “at press time the second movie appeared to have little more than a rough first-draft working script.”
You could tell the second they only had one screening two days before the release in New York and told reporters that they couldn’t review until the day of that these people were shady. Summit has engendered such bad will that everyone behind the scenes is talking and they’re talking up a storm to EW. Apparently Summit’s doesn’t want to rehire Taylor Lautner (the kid above). Whatever, these guys suck. There’s no way in hell, we’re ever giving them our dollars now. We’re not gonna bother with “Twilight” until its free on cable.