David Slade to Direct “Eclipse”
Summit Entertainment may be taking the third installation of the Twilight franchise in a new, scarier direction. Filmmaker David Slade, director of the vampire classic,
30 Days of Night, has been announced as the director of the third film in the Twilight franchise,
Eclipse. Luckily Stephanie Meyer, author of the Twilight literary series is overjoyed at the choice. “I am thrilled that David Slade will be directing Eclipse. He’s a visionary filmmaker who has so much to offer this franchise.”
Director Chris Weitz is currently helming the second film in the series, New Moon, which is being shot in Vancouver and was mentioned as the possible director of Eclipse along with Drew Barrymore and Juan Antonia Bayona but Slade got the job!