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Videos: Empire interviews the Eclipse cast

Empire has posted their interviews with director David Slade, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Ashley Greene, Xavier Samuel, BooBoo Stewart and Alex Meraz.

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Xposé interviews David Slade,Kellan, Nikki, Ashley and Xavier

During their visit to the UK, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Ashley Greene and Xavier Samuel did some press interviews for the UK and Irish Press. One of them is Irish Television Show Xposé. Here are their video interviews.

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David Slade thanks the fans

Director David Slade thanked the fans for their support through Twilight’s official facebook.

When you put your heart and soul into something as intense as the duration of a film production, you become completely lost in it. You focus on doing your very best to get it right each day and you work on this for so long that you assume an ownership of it.

When shooting The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, I always felt an awareness of how many people this film would reach and as a result, knew that this film did not just belong to myself, the producers and the studio, but more so, to all of you, the fans of The Twilight Saga.

At the end of the day, after all the hard work is done, all that’s left is the film itself, and your overwhelmingly positive and supportive responses have made me feel like we must have done something right. As a filmmaker, this is a rare and strange feeling of connection with an audience of which I will never forget and I thank you all for it.

DAVID SLADE
JULY 2010

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The Wrap interviews David Slade

The Wrap has released their interview with Eclipse director David Slade where he talked about getting on-board the Twilight Saga as well as his takes on Edward, Bella, Jacob, the whole series and the fans. Here is an excerpt of their interview:

So, how did you get hired? Were you on a list?

No. I had met with Summit on a couple of projects that didn’t come to fruition. They seemed to like me, and when it came to “New Moon,” they asked me — but I never even got to say yes before Chris was doing it.

So when this came up — they sent me a script for “New Moon” and they sent me the script for this — I read it and I thought this one was superior. One of the things for the director is you got to have a good story. Even if you have the most expensive budget in the world, or even if you’ve got the best actors in the world, the story is what’s going to sell it.

Also, being completely candid, how often do you get the opportunity to do a romance if you’ve done two horror movies? So it was a great way to test myself.

Was it hard joining a huge franchise?

It wasn’t anything that concerned me. The important thing was to make the best movie I could.In terms of the cycle of the novels, this one is more mature, more grown-up, a lot darker, a lot more scary. So it was going to be a different look, a little bit of difference in the performances.

But at no point was there ever a dichotomy between serving the phenomena and making a film. I felt that if I tried to focus too much on the phenomenon, the fans and the other films, that I would go crazy.

Is a project like this director-proof?

t’s not director-proof. I don’t believe anything’s director-proof. I think Christopher Nolan proved that when he directed the Batman franchise — he elevated Batman so high above what everybody expected.

But Joel Schumacher made a hash of Batman, and they still made lots of money.

I never thought of that. But I’m not a filmmaker who kind of deliberates too much about my career. I just saw it for what it was and thought I’ll go and meet them and talk about it. So then when we talked about it, they went, “Wow, great! Your ideas seem to match ours. We want you to meet someone else.”

And the next meeting I’m meeting the author. And it was really quick. The first meeting to being offered the film was, essentially, two weeks. It wasn’t any big life choice to make. It wasn’t, ‘Oh God, am I going to sell my soul to the devil?’

Summit has so much riding on the “Twilight” series. Everything must have been a committee decision.

You can get every single person who needs to make a decision at Summit into the bathroom. So it’s not as many as you think.

Summit is a studio like any other studio, and in this day and age, you have to know how to work with studios. But the main thing is, as long as you’re on the same page when you go in, you stay on the same page. You’ll have your ups and downs, but mostly you can make the film that you want to make.

What did they want input on?

Largely big general points like, “Don’t make Edward ugly in this scene. Make sure he’s not in the sun because he should sparkle.”

What author Stephenie Meyer’s role? You can see her fingerprints all over the script.
There was a lot of discussion in pre-production on the script. She would come in, and she would be an advisor. So we called her a lot because we were doing things that were out of the book as well as in the book. But we knew there wasn’t time for a lot of discussion.

To read the rest of the interview, click on the link above.

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David Slade: We had a closed set during the Bella and Edward kiss

In an interview with Marie Claire UK, David Slade disclosed that during the filming of the Bella/Edward Bed Scene, the set was closed.

‘This stuff is always awkward to shoot, and you just have to get people really comfortable with each other,’ he said.’We do it as a closed set. There’s no giggling and joking around, and everybody treats it very professionally – that’s just the way it works.’

‘They didn’t seem to be nervous, they were fine with each other,’ David revealed.’We shot that on the very last night and it just seemed to go wonderfully. It just flowed beautifully.’

He also talked about Eclipse and the success of the Twilight Saga.

‘This was the most mature film,‘ David said. ‘We really wanted to address the sex issue, as we didn’t want Edward to come across as a prude. ‘But Eclipse does suggest that perhaps there can be a natural rhythm to a relationship and you don’t have to jump into it straight away.’

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Video: Director David Slade talked about Eclipse and Bella’s evolution

Moviefone has released their interview with director David Slade which was done during the Twilight Night last June 26. Watch Mr. Slade explain Bella’s evolution in the third movie, the theme in the movie and how he adapted the third book to the screen.

Also, dont forget to watch their interviews with the cast and more.

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