Posts Tagged ‘Taylor-Lautner’
Yesterday we posted ten seconds of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the third film in the Twilight series. Now we’ve got the full trailer for the David Slade-directed chapter, which, based on this trailer, brings the love triangle between Bella (Kristen Stweart), Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Jacob (Taylor Lautner) much closer together.
One of the classic rules of storytelling is ’show don’t tell,’ but Eclipse is like the Hulk. Eclipse does not care about your puny rules. So, here we’ve got it all laid out, easy to understand. Bella wants the vampire Edward, but he doesn’t want her to lose her humanity. Jacob wants Bella, and will fight for her. Add in a couple of antagonists and we’re done. Subtlety what?
Then again, this teaser takes a different tactic from most. It doesn’t hint at setpieces, choosing instead to remind a potential audience that we’re just here to see these characters romantically butt heads. As such, the whole of the movie’s conflict seems to be set in forests and meadows. Which is fine — it is the Pacific Northwest, after all — but that makes the film look cheap and limited in scope.
This trailer also introduces Bryce Dallas Howard, who replaces Rachelle Lefevre as Victoria. (Looking at the IMDB, I’m also pointed to the fact that Jodelle Ferland, the young actress from Silent Hill and Tideland, is in Eclipse, which I hadn’t realized previously.) I really hope that Howard and Taylor Lautner come off looking a lot better in the full film than they do here. All those efforts to build tentpole films around Lautner might end up looking pretty silly in a couple months.
But I get it. These movies are not for me. This one in particular is not for me. If these movies are for you, Yahoo has the teaser in HD, should you want to see every pine needle that figuratively decorates Bella’s cold heart.
Yesterday we posted ten seconds of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the third film in the Twilight series. Now we’ve got the full trailer for the David Slade-directed chapter, which, based on this trailer, brings the love triangle between Bella (Kristen Stweart), Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Jacob (Taylor Lautner) much closer together.
One of the classic rules of storytelling is ’show don’t tell,’ but Eclipse is like the Hulk. Eclipse does not care about your puny rules. So, here we’ve got it all laid out, easy to understand. Bella wants the vampire Edward, but he doesn’t want her to lose her humanity. Jacob wants Bella, and will fight for her. Add in a couple of antagonists and we’re done. Subtlety what?
Then again, this teaser takes a different tactic from most. It doesn’t hint at setpieces, choosing instead to remind a potential audience that we’re just here to see these characters romantically butt heads. As such, the whole of the movie’s conflict seems to be set in forests and meadows. Which is fine — it is the Pacific Northwest, after all — but that makes the film look cheap and limited in scope.
This trailer also introduces Bryce Dallas Howard, who replaces Rachelle Lefevre as Victoria. (Looking at the IMDB, I’m also pointed to the fact that Jodelle Ferland, the young actress from Silent Hill and Tideland, is in Eclipse, which I hadn’t realized previously.) I really hope that Howard and Taylor Lautner come off looking a lot better in the full film than they do here. All those efforts to build tentpole films around Lautner might end up looking pretty silly in a couple months.
But I get it. These movies are not for me. This one in particular is not for me. If these movies are for you, Yahoo has the teaser in HD, should you want to see every pine needle that figuratively decorates Bella’s cold heart.
Yesterday we posted ten seconds of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the third film in the Twilight series. Now we’ve got the full trailer for the David Slade-directed chapter, which, based on this trailer, brings the love triangle between Bella (Kristen Stweart), Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Jacob (Taylor Lautner) much closer together.
One of the classic rules of storytelling is ’show don’t tell,’ but Eclipse is like the Hulk. Eclipse does not care about your puny rules. So, here we’ve got it all laid out, easy to understand. Bella wants the vampire Edward, but he doesn’t want her to lose her humanity. Jacob wants Bella, and will fight for her. Add in a couple of antagonists and we’re done. Subtlety what?
Then again, this teaser takes a different tactic from most. It doesn’t hint at setpieces, choosing instead to remind a potential audience that we’re just here to see these characters romantically butt heads. As such, the whole of the movie’s conflict seems to be set in forests and meadows. Which is fine — it is the Pacific Northwest, after all — but that makes the film look cheap and limited in scope.
This trailer also introduces Bryce Dallas Howard, who replaces Rachelle Lefevre as Victoria. (Looking at the IMDB, I’m also pointed to the fact that Jodelle Ferland, the young actress from Silent Hill and Tideland, is in Eclipse, which I hadn’t realized previously.) I really hope that Howard and Taylor Lautner come off looking a lot better in the full film than they do here. All those efforts to build tentpole films around Lautner might end up looking pretty silly in a couple months.
But I get it. These movies are not for me. This one in particular is not for me. If these movies are for you, Yahoo has the teaser in HD, should you want to see every pine needle that figuratively decorates Bella’s cold heart.
Yesterday we posted ten seconds of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the third film in the Twilight series. Now we’ve got the full trailer for the David Slade-directed chapter, which, based on this trailer, brings the love triangle between Bella (Kristen Stweart), Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Jacob (Taylor Lautner) much closer together.
One of the classic rules of storytelling is ’show don’t tell,’ but Eclipse is like the Hulk. Eclipse does not care about your puny rules. So, here we’ve got it all laid out, easy to understand. Bella wants the vampire Edward, but he doesn’t want her to lose her humanity. Jacob wants Bella, and will fight for her. Add in a couple of antagonists and we’re done. Subtlety what?
Then again, this teaser takes a different tactic from most. It doesn’t hint at setpieces, choosing instead to remind a potential audience that we’re just here to see these characters romantically butt heads. As such, the whole of the movie’s conflict seems to be set in forests and meadows. Which is fine — it is the Pacific Northwest, after all — but that makes the film look cheap and limited in scope.
This trailer also introduces Bryce Dallas Howard, who replaces Rachelle Lefevre as Victoria. (Looking at the IMDB, I’m also pointed to the fact that Jodelle Ferland, the young actress from Silent Hill and Tideland, is in Eclipse, which I hadn’t realized previously.) I really hope that Howard and Taylor Lautner come off looking a lot better in the full film than they do here. All those efforts to build tentpole films around Lautner might end up looking pretty silly in a couple months.
But I get it. These movies are not for me. This one in particular is not for me. If these movies are for you, Yahoo has the teaser in HD, should you want to see every pine needle that figuratively decorates Bella’s cold heart.
Yesterday we posted ten seconds of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the third film in the Twilight series. Now we’ve got the full trailer for the David Slade-directed chapter, which, based on this trailer, brings the love triangle between Bella (Kristen Stweart), Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Jacob (Taylor Lautner) much closer together.
One of the classic rules of storytelling is ’show don’t tell,’ but Eclipse is like the Hulk. Eclipse does not care about your puny rules. So, here we’ve got it all laid out, easy to understand. Bella wants the vampire Edward, but he doesn’t want her to lose her humanity. Jacob wants Bella, and will fight for her. Add in a couple of antagonists and we’re done. Subtlety what?
Then again, this teaser takes a different tactic from most. It doesn’t hint at setpieces, choosing instead to remind a potential audience that we’re just here to see these characters romantically butt heads. As such, the whole of the movie’s conflict seems to be set in forests and meadows. Which is fine — it is the Pacific Northwest, after all — but that makes the film look cheap and limited in scope.
This trailer also introduces Bryce Dallas Howard, who replaces Rachelle Lefevre as Victoria. (Looking at the IMDB, I’m also pointed to the fact that Jodelle Ferland, the young actress from Silent Hill and Tideland, is in Eclipse, which I hadn’t realized previously.) I really hope that Howard and Taylor Lautner come off looking a lot better in the full film than they do here. All those efforts to build tentpole films around Lautner might end up looking pretty silly in a couple months.
But I get it. These movies are not for me. This one in particular is not for me. If these movies are for you, Yahoo has the teaser in HD, should you want to see every pine needle that figuratively decorates Bella’s cold heart.
It’s a teaser for a trailer! The real trailer for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse will be online tomorrow in advance of the theatrical premiere Friday, where it will be attached to the Robert Pattinson film Remember Me. In the meantime, you can now see ten seconds from Eclipse. Here we get a truncated bit of dialogue that sets up, or more properly reiterates, the core conflict at the heart of this romance: does mopey Bella (Kristen Stewart) choose Edward (Pattinson) or Jacob (Taylor Lautner)? Sadly, we don’t get much sense for how new director David Slade will treat the material. Here, it looks like a midpoint between the previous two Twilight films.
But the real reason I’m posting this is that I can’t get over the bit of dialogue from Jacob. “I’m going to fight for you…until your heart stops beating.” Is there any creepier profession of dedication than that? (OK, obviously there is, but in this context I’m still loving Jacob’s line.)
Check out the clip after the break. We’ll have the full trailer tomorrow.
Taylor Lautner’s business people have been great about attaching him to a series of films in the wake of New Moon’s outrageous success. The sum total of all the efforts has been to push his level of exposure and price tag higher and higher. But something had to give, and while it seemed like Lautner would be able to make several of the films he was attached to, a few are gradually falling away. He won’t do the ‘junior Top Gun‘ film Northern Lights, for one. The latest is Max Steel, which has been dumped in favor of Stretch Armstrong.
Vulture has the details on the move, and suggests that it wasn’t just Lautner’s increasingly crowded schedule that caused him to bail on the film, but a difference in efficiency between Hasbro and Mattel. Basically, Hasbro, which is behind Stretch Armstrong, has been making moves and pushing movies forward (Transformers, G.I. Joe, Battleship, CandyLand and Risk) while Mattel, despite being a more dominant toy company, hasn’t.
While Ron Howard was rumored to be a possible Stretch Armstrong director, according to the LA Times it is now looking like Monsters vs. Aliens co-director Rob Letterman, who has just finished Gulliver’s Travels with Jack Black, may helm the picture. Just after Lautner was cast, the release date for Stretch Armstrong was pushed back from spring 2011 to spring 2012, in part to make sure the actor had time to do it, and in part to make the film in proper 3D. Letterman has 3D experience, having made Monsters vs. Aliens in the format.
None of which really changes my level of interest in Stretch Armstrong; so far it seems like it’s going to be a kids’ movie with a massively outsized budget. The only thing that seems like an interesting angle on the film is if it were to become a semi-comedic, self-aware thing. Give me Taylor Lautner in something like Small Soldiers and I might bite.
After a week-long bidding war for The Twilight Saga: New Moon star Taylor Lautner’s next project — a Bourne-styled action film called Abduction, Lionsgate has come out the winner. Rumor has it that Dreamworks had come close to nabbing the project, but that was not the case. I’m not sure how much the deal was for, but screenwriter Shawn Christensen’s last spec screenplay Karma Coalition sold for close to a million dollars, and that was without any star attachments packaged with the deal. Rumor has it that the project sold for close to $1 million.
I know that the involvement of Lautner might scare non-Twilight fans from reading further — but let me tell you, the more I hear about this script, the cooler it sounds. More details, after the jump.
It’s a very high concept idea, which I think most of the /Film audience might dig. Abduction follows a teenager named Nathan “who has long felt disconnected from his parents, and figures out why. That unleashes a chain of violent events.”After discovering his own baby picture on a missing persons website, he realizes a deep dark secret — his parents kidnapped him as a child and raised him as their own. This realization unlocks a huge conspiracy, and Nathan and his girlfriend must go on the run. I’ve heard it’s Bourne meets Hitchcock for the Twilight Disturbia crowd.
via: Variety
For years, guys in high school have barely wondered what the source is to the mysterious glitter found on their clothes for days and months after vacating a girl’s bedroom. Has Etsy finally let the immortal, sparkling, man-shaped, phallic-necked, vampire pillow out of the bag?
This week, photos of $35 Twilight-themed ”manllows” like the nightmarish one above—the Robert “Pasty” Pattison model—made the leap from an Etsy shop to Tumblr, causing the latter site to become more difficult to tolerate. After the jump, we have a deeper look at this troubling trend of male objectification for the sake of fem-geek bedtime fantasy. This just in: the first documentation of a Twilighter manillow sandwich…
“Never mind, I found a bookmark. Two of them. Ha.”
Here is the official item description for the Taylor Lautner manllow…
For all the twilight [sic] crazed lonely women in the world, Jacob Black is finally here to be with you and only you. Sleep with him, cuddle with him, use him as a neck rest, the Jacob Manllow is there to be your man and pillow all in one. Don’t worry, in the Manllow world, all men are of age.
What is creepier? The sentence highlighted above or the fact that “manllow” is so close to “Manilow, Barry”?
Or simply knowing that these manllows are currently sold-out?
“Last weekend, my manllow and I made Valentine’s Day number one. Wouldn’t it be great if Hollywood decided to make movies titled and themed after every holiday now? Wait, they are?! Fun!”
Question: In your opinion, does the manllow affect Lautner’s chances of becoming the next Hollywood action star?
Russ mentioned in his Casting Notes post earlier today that a bunch of studios were in a bidding war for The Twilight Saga: New Moon star Taylor Lautner’s next project — a Bourne-styled action film called Abduction. Rumor has it that Dreamworks has won the bidding war.
Update: Dreamworks has contacted us and the studio claims that they did not place the winning bid. We’ll update when more details are available.
I’m not sure how much the deal was for, but screenwriter Shawn Christensen’s last spec screenplay Karma Coalition sold for close to a million dollars, and that was without any star attachments packaged with the deal.
I know that the involvement of Lautner might scare non-Twilight fans from reading further — but let me tell you, the more I hear about this script, the cooler it sounds. It’s a very high concept idea, which I think most of the /Film audience might dig. More details, after the jump.
Abduction follows a teenager named Nathan “who has long felt disconnected from his parents, and figures out why. That unleashes a chain of violent events.”He figures out a deep dark secret — his parents kidnapped him as a child and raised him as their own. This realization unlocks a huge conspiracy, and Nathan and his girlfriend must go on the run. I’ve heard it’s Bourne meets Hitchcock for the Twilight crowd.
