Twilight Director Chris Weitz Trades Bad Acting for Real Film

Posted by on 05 Mar 2010 by theBean in Editorials, News

Twilight New Moon Wow. Chris Weitz has chosen quality acting over a multi-billion dollar film empire.

The not-a-household-name yet director, who was made almost famous by his fantastic directing in Twilight (we can’t blame the acting of Stewart or Luther on him, now), has decided to step away in favor of a small, minimally funded film about a Mexican landscaper.

His WME agent David Lubliner is probably having a heart-attack, but we laud Weitz for his valiant decision.

Maybe it was Kristen Stewart’s perpetual untrained awkwardness. Maybe it was the fact that Taylor Luther couldn’t keep his shirt on, or refused to stand straight because the “hip-cock” makes his abs look better.

Whatever the reason, Weitz is helming his project and makes no apologies:

“It’s about an undocumented immigrant who gets the chance to buy a truck and equipment to raise his family out of poverty, and how things go right and wrong from there,” Weitz told a news source. “It is an Italian neo-realist movie with a contemporary feel. I wanted to return to making films with no green screen required, not that there’s anything wrong with those.”

Go Weitz. We applaud you.

Summit Entertainment is rumored to already be scouting around for a new Twilight director (a bigger name, this time) — as they should. Perhaps they could just let the young vampire-stars direct it themselves? Then perhaps New Moon will go directly to the back of Blockbuster’s sale section where it belongs.

Chris Weitz Twilight Director

Or maybe the film can just CAST ACTORS WHO CAN ACT. But with the teeny-boppers being head over heels for baby-oiled midsections these days and not really listening to the dialogue — Twilight: New Moon will inevitably be a blockbuster like the rest of them.

Good luck with your immigrants, Chris Weitz. Go forth and show America what a real film is made of.