Hit Fix har en exklusiv intervju med regissören Chris Weitz, där man lär sig flera nya saker om New Moon! Den är väldigt intressant så jag rekommenderar er starkt att läsa den!

T.ex. att vargen i slutet av trailern har gått igenom ca 30 ändringar på specialeffektsfronten.

It is. I myself was surprised Phil Tippet’s company was able to turn out that wolf shot and I think they kind of did that as a matter of institutional pride that they could. Even that shot that was in the trailer has gone through 20-30 iterations since then, but they have done a really extraordinary job and Phil Tippet is a complete genius. He’s responsible for the walkers in ‘Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back’ and he’s kind of one of the legends of the visual effects community and it pretty amazing what they have been able to do on such short notice. We are working at kind of breakneck speed at the same time as trying to achieve something really quite elegant as well. It’s not just Tippet, it’s Frantic/CBS (LOOK UP) which is headed up by Mike Fink who is my old friend who was the visual effects supervisor on ‘Golden Compass’ which won the Oscar the year it came out. So, yeah, working very fast, but we’re also trying to work as beautifully as possible to make these effect kind of settle into the amazing cinematography that Javier Aguirresarobe brought us. We are kind of moving at light speed,but trying to deliver something that’s really elegant and beautiful.

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*Even Weitz was surprised with how quickly Phil Tippet’s company turned around the Jacob wolf shot at the end of the first teaser trailer. The shot has gone through numerous iterations and is much more photorealistic than that version.

*He’ll be submitting a director’s cut of the film to Summit within the next two weeks.

*Alexandre Desplat is currently working on the movie’s score. It may include hints at Carter Burwell’s original ”Twilight” theme, but will sound different.

*Thom Yorke and Kings of Leon are interested in contributing to the film’s soundtrack.

*A couple of new scenes from the film will be shown during the ”New Moon” Comic-Con panel on Thursday, July 23.

*The movie within a movie, ”Facepunch,” will only be heard — not seen.

*Shooting in Italy with all of the fans that trekked across Europe to see the production was like Beatlemania.

*His vision of the Volturi is very much like the book and unlike a number of fan inspirations that have hit the web. He also sees them as having gone slightly insane after living for 2,000 years.

*He’s met with David Slade and expects the filmmaker’s vision for ”Eclipse” to be different than what he’s doing with ”New Moon,” but with the same actors and visual effects team.

*He’s flattered that fans want him to direct ”Breaking Dawn” without seeing ”New Moon,” but thinks the fans will want Slade to do it by the time ”Eclipse” comes out.

*Weitz needs to turn the film in by Oct. 30 to strike prints or if not, they are in ”big trouble” to make the release date.

Weitz om soundtracket:

Really quickly on the music. The first movie probably made Paramore as a band. Were you surprised by the number of acts wanting to be on the sequel and have you had to turn anybody down?

Well, fortunately I’m not at the stage where I have to turn anybody down yet, because everything is still kind of up in the air, but I am surprised by some of the bands that have said they are interested. It’s kind of great. The criteria will still be what’s right for the movie at that given moment, but y’know, Thom Yorke is interested. We might, if we’re very lucky, get Kings of Leon to do something. So, it’s exciting to have access to this kind of talent.

Kings of Leon? Yay! :) Deras låt ”Closer” är en av mina favoriter:

Här med lyrics.

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Interview Magazine har en ny intervju med Taylor Lautner:

How close is the cast:
LAUTNER: The whole cast is really close. It would be difficult for our characters if we weren’t. It’s a love triangle, and we need to understand each other. So the fact that we’re close and can talk things through in rehearsals, and if we’re out at dinner, we’ll just randomly start talking about the scene we’re shooting the next day . . . If we weren’t able to do those things, I don’t know where we’d be.

How Jacob feels:
LAUTNER: ”Twilight” develops the relationship between Edward and Bella. In ”New Moon,” Edward leaves, and Bella needs someone to bring her out of this depression she’s in, so she turns to her best friend, Jacob. It looks like it could go past friends. Bella’s very confused. Jacob wants nothing more than to be more than friends. He wants Edward to get out of there so he can move in for the kill.

About Bella’s feelings:
LAUTNER: Yeah. Bella’s torn. She’s still in love with Edward, but she’s kind of fallen for Jacob, too. When I read the books, I felt bad for Jacob, because he can’t have what he wants. I understand Jacob’s pain but also Bella’s pain — how she’s confused and torn between the two.

Från LA TIMES (dom har lite bilder på honom där om ni inte får nog med videon ;))

LA Times har lite saftiga nyheter – dom har nämligen en jättelång och intressant artikel om New Moon och dom har en ny bild:

Ett utdrag ur den 2 sidor långa, detaljrika och intressanta artikeln som även diskuterar Eclipse och Breaking Dawn filmen:

Reporting from Vancouver, Canada — Robert Pattinson is having an Obi-Wan Kenobi moment. Inside a soundstage where ”The Twilight Saga: New Moon” is shooting, the lanky English heartthrob stands in front of a tall, wide green screen murmuring a tender admonition, ”You promised me nothing reckless.” Motion capture cameras hurtle toward him across a length of track affixed to the stage floor, while a team of technicians studies his stance and the tilt of his head.

The plan is to digitally insert Pattinson, who plays swoony good guy vampire Edward Cullen, into a scene that was filmed much earlier — one in which he appears as a spectral vision to his costar, Kristen Stewart, cautioning her headstrong character, Bella Swan, against hanging out with some unsavory-looking biker types. For the effect to work, Pattinson’s image will need to be dropped in at exactly the right position, so despite the cast and crew nearing the end of a very long early May day, perfectionism is still the standard.

The team working on this sequel to last year’s Catherine Hardwicke-directed ”Twilight,” which brought in an unexpected $365 million worldwide for Summit Entertainment, is moving quickly to sustain the momentum of the sexy, youth-oriented franchise.

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Det finns även lite soundtrack nyheter och vad som kommer att visas på comic-con i artikeln:

Driving home from a day of post-production, Weitz says he understands what’s at stake. There are 450 visual effects shots to complete, in addition to the score and the movie’s soundtrack, which he says will feature songs from Radiohead, Muse and Band of Skulls, among others. But the sequences he’s readying for the event — one, an action scene that will feature some of those effects, the other, a love scene sure to elicit hysteria from the crowd — will be done in time.

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Entertainment Weekly har exklusiva nyheter; nämligen att Little Brown kommer att släppa Twilight boken – som seriebok! Stephenie Meyer är själv involverad i projektet och den Koreanska konstnären Young Kim kommer att rita allt. Så här skriver dom:

For those of you who can’t get enough Edward and Bella, EW can announce — exclusively — that Little, Brown will be publishing Twilight in graphic-novel form. Though Korean artist Young Kim is creating the art, Meyer herself is deeply immersed in the project, reviewing every panel.

Take a close look at the biology-class sketch we’ve obtained (that’s an empty dialogue bubble between their heads, if you’re wondering). What’s interesting to me is that it doesn’t look simply like an artist’s rendering of Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson. In fact, the characters seem to be an amalgam of Meyer’s literary imagination and the actors’ actual looks. The description of Edward from biology class: “His dazzling face was friendly; open, a slight smile on his flawless lips. But his eyes were cautious.” And Bella: “I was ivory-skinned …. I had always been slender, but soft somehow, obviously not an athlete…” To me, this graphic-novel Bella seems much closer to me to Meyer’s book than to Stewart’s sultry portrayal. The Edward shown is closer to Pattinson, but not a real duplicate; there’s something very winning in the sketch that I don’t see in Pattinson’s all-too-perfect tousled bronze locks and piercing eyes.

What do you think? If you’d like to see more before weighing in, pick up a copy of EW magazine, which will hit newsstands on Friday, July 17 — it contains finished illustrations of Edward, Bella, and Jacob.

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Helt off-topic, men finns det några Harry Potter-fantaster här som möjligtvis kommer att gå på bio i kväll för att se den 6:e filmen? Själv ska jag se den i morgon. Jag har faktiskt inte läst böckerna. Men måste nog göra det någon gång!

Först var det tänkt att Harry Potter och halvblodsprinsen skulle komma ut på bio den 21 november förra året- men Twilight fick ju det datumet istället! Så det är klart att man som en äkta Twilighter blev lycklig, men det var synd om motparten. Men i dag, den 15 juli, är det som sagt premiär för filmen och många HP-fans är nog överlyckliga just nu! :D

Trailern till Harry Potter och halvblodsprinsen:

Fråga till er;

Twilight eller Harry Potter?

Mitt svar: Twilight, <3