Chris Weitz talks balancing Robert Pattinson in ‘New Moon’
Fans may want more Robert Pattinson
How do you balance the hordes of Robert Pattinson fans needing their Robbie fix while staying true to Stephenie Meyer’s source material? That’s the problem The Twilight Saga: New Moon director Chris Weitz faces as his latest feature looms closer to its November 20th release date.
“[We wanted to avoid] just randomly inserting Rob throughout the movie in a back-at-the-ranch sort of way, which would just be about box office and us being worried about whether people would deal with the darkness of the second book. People are actually very ready for [the dark] aspect of it,” Weitz said to MTV. “You’ll see quite a lot of Rob in the film, but it’s seen subjectively, through Bella’s eyes. It’s also in dreams that she has of him as well.”
In New Moon, Pattinson’s Edward Cullen is seen as a figment of Bella’s (Kristen Stewart) imagination as she grows closer to her old BFF Jacob (Taylor Lautner).
Weitz goes on: “It strikes this very fine balance between too much Rob and too little Rob… Well, I know for a lot of people there’s no such thing as too much Rob. But we’ve got a nice dose of Taylor to sweeten any Rob deficiencies. It is a disease that can only be treated with Vitamin T, for Taylor.”
This is probably the stupidest poll that I have ever seen in my life. Make a biopic about Pattinson if you want more of him, but obviously a movie should stay true to the source material. Don't deviate because of a bunch of female fans who put so much effort into obsessing about Rob that they unknowingly lose their youth and vitality and diminish their chances of finding a real partner to spend the rest of their life with.
Sorry, if I have to have more of Taylor, I would rather go without. I say keep the movie close to the book. That being said, I don't remember all of the Taylor crap their putting in either. There was no love triangle in New Moon. For some reason summit is hyping up Jacob and Bella's friendship into something more. That was in Eclipse. Rob should not be any of the scenes he is not supposed to, but that goes for that Talyor too.
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