FAN SITE FRIDAYS: NEW INTERVIEW WITH CHRIS WEITZ (PART TWO)
Happy Friday and welcome to our final edition of Fan Site Fridays! This week, we’ve saved the best for last and we are bringing you part two of our New Moon set interview with film director Chris Weitz. In part two of this new interview, Chris discusses everything from the soundtrack and score of the film to the CGI and grand sets. Check out a preview below:
How does this compare to ‘Golden Compass’? Just in the development process in bringing two separate books to life?Chris Weitz: It’s been an easier process… I found a lot less interference from Summit and a lot more understanding of the books than New Line had of the Golden Compass. I think that this studio understands the importance of the books – members of which who have read the books and appreciate them – not just see them as engines of possible profit. So that makes a tremendous difference- it really does.
There were a lot of quirks in ‘Twilight’ with incorporating the book cover and having Stephenie do the cameo. Do you any plans to put your own spin on that to include it in this movie at all?
Chris Weitz: Well I know that Stephenie didn’t particularly like the tulip on the cover of the book, so we won’t be seeing that. Well I don’t think there are any trick cameos per se but every time I make a movie I definitely want 20 or 30 moments where if you had a DVD and stopped it, you can see things whether it be strange bits of foreshadowing – as though you can see into the future in certain scenes or whether it be little moments that pass by un noticed or details of the architecture of things- I love doing that sort of stuff
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And if you missed a previous edition, you can view them all below:
• Week One: Exclusive ‘New Moon’ Set Report
• Week Two: Interview With ‘Twilight Saga’ Film Producer Wyck Godfrey
• Week Three: Interviews with ‘Twilight Saga’ Film Stars Gil Birmingham and Chaske Spencer
• Week Four: Interview with ‘Twilight Saga’ Film Star Taylor Lautner
• Week Five: Interview with ‘New Moon’ director Chris Weitz (Part One)
