David Slade's Name Added to Director Contention for Twilight's 'Eclipse'
And a short bit on the possibility of bringing 'Breaking Dawn' to theaters

UPDATE: David Slade has been confirmed as the director, click here for the news.
Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood has thrown another director's name into the ring when it comes to the much speculated role of helming The Twilight Saga: Eclipse which is already set for a June 30, 2010 release date, a mere seven months after this year's Twilight follow-up New Moon.
Finke reports David Slade (Hard Candy, 30 Days Of Night) now joins previous contenders Juan Antonio Bayona and Paul Weitz, brother of New Moon director Chris Weitz. Drew Barrymore was once said to be a possibility, but she recently told MTV, "Oh, I wish that I was! I adore that project and I adore the team that's making it. And I am very honored to now be a director and going up for other movies and being offered other movies as a director. I'm now an actor/producer/director! How lucky am I! [But] no, we're not going to do it together."
Finke says Slade met with author Stephenie Meyer and Summit president of production Erik Feig, but no other details beyond that saying there is no deal yet so as to clarify her jumping of the gun when she proclaimed Bayona had been confirmed as the director.
In other Twilight news, rumors began to spread saying Summit was deep in the planning stages for bringing "Breaking Dawn," the fourth book in the Twilight series, to the big screen, but Twilight screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg told Entertainment Weekly, "The most I've heard from Summit is 're-read it and start thinking about it… As far as I know, Stephenie was still having meetings asking, 'Can we really make this into a movie?'"
I have only read the first book in the series, but according to EW, the fourth book's racy sex and explicit birth scenes make it less pre-teen friendly then the three earlier, more chaste romance novels.










