Talking to Movieline, Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke disclosed some of her plans for the upcoming contemporary update of Hamlet.
“It’s really like a thriller,” she said. “From the day Hamlet’s father dies, three days later eight people are dead and a ghost is telling him to murder for revenge so we’re doing it as a suspense thriller.”
Hardwicke added that there will some additions as well, including showing “all the action that often is off camera… it’s scary… you’re going to see a lot of crazy stuff.”
The film is expected sometime next year.
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Just the other day I posted news that Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke was negotiating on Maximum Ride 
series as director. But yesterday events changed. Hardwicke and Summit Entertainment have made up their creative differences with the director signing on for the company’s fantasy-drama If I Stay.
Twilight success brought in $380 million worldwide grosses. Hardwicke and Summit went their separate ways in December over her directing New Moon, the second Twilight installment. Hardwicke decided not to direct the sequel because of creative differences.
Now, according to Variety Hardwicke and Summit are working together on If I Stay.
The fantasy story is based on Gayle Forman’s novel of the same name, due to be published this spring. The tale follows a gifted classical musician and her independent rock star boyfriend who’s forced to choose between life and death when she’s in a car accident with her family.
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Posted on Mar 17, 2009 under Action, Adventure, Book-to-Movie, Children, Directors, Fantasy, Movie News, The Debate, The Movie Biz, Writers |
Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke is negotiating with Sony’s Columbia Pictures to develop and direct an adaptation of another young-adult fantasy series called Maximum Ride.
The five-volume series by James Patterson follows six teens, recognized as the Flock, genetically altered as part human and part bird. They learn to fly and escape the laboratory where they were housed and are pursued by a pack of creatures called the Erasers that are part human and part wolf.
Don Payne (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer) is writing a screenplay.
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Variety’s Anne Thompson wrote a rather large column on Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke’s decision to bow out of the sequel New Moon. It looks like creative differences is the reason. Summit Entertainment, the production company, wants to rush the sequel to a release date at the end of 2009 or the start of 2010.
Behind the scenes, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg handed over a draft of New Moon the same weekend its predecessor opened. The book, “New Moon,” is focused on werewolves not vampires, which left the heartthrob Edward out of the picture. Summit wanted Edward in the storyline more, which Rosenberg had figured out. But, Hardwicke felt the script needed more work.
Needless to say, negotiations lasted two weeks until the decision came out this weekend. Now, no director is attached and Summit is moving forward.
As Anne Thompson pointed out in her column Hardwicke delivered the biggest opening weekend ever for a woman director. The movie is still performing strong while the director and cast promote it overseas. If you check out Screenhead’s Box Office Report, you’ll see that Twilight came in second with $13.2 million.
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