Catherine Hardwicke is the perfect director for this: nothing in the book compares to the moment Bella enters Bio class in the film… Edward — repulsed — winged like an angel (flanked by a stuffed owl), Bella — self-conscious — her hair billows against the fan. The danger of sexuality, the grace of Desire. Beautiful. I was thought Hardwicke could continue in order to work through the ideas she introduces. It was like My So-Called Life with Godfather ambitions. In that tradition, I had hopes Part II would be better. Only one person could have gotten those performances from those actors. This is a real shame. Oh well, here's praying Kathryn Bigelow or Sturla Gunnarsson or Neil Jordan or Patrice Chereau (!!!omg!1) will be hired to take over "New Moon". But something tells me they're not looking for artists (Chris Weitz?????? ugh). Anyone who directs "New Moon" should do screenings of "The Story of Adele H.", "Godfather Part II" & "III", and "The Company of Wolves" for inspiration and instruction.

I think Alfonso Cuarón should direct New Moon & Eclipse!

Anyone up for a fan write-in campaign to voice our concerns to Summit? You never know what can happen. New directors, rushing to make it, how good will the end result be? @Pat:

HOW BOUT STEPEHNIE MEYER…DIDNT SHE DIRECT A MUSIC VIDEO?…SHE'S THE AUTHOR AND KNOWS WHATS WHAT

Seriously, "American Pie" director? Give me a break! In Summit's race to profiit, they seem to have taken a leave of their senses. "The Golden Compass" adaptation was dreadful and I haven't seen anything which leads me to believe that Mr. Weitz has the right sensibility to direct "New Moon". Granted, Catherine Hardwicke's "Twilight" was not perfect and you can bet there are other issues surrounding her not being picked up to direct the next movie. Does that give Summit the right to employ nepotism? If I were Chris Weitz, I would pass. "Twilight" fans have much higher expectations for "New Moon" and he will be villified if he mucks it up. Hell hath no fury like young girl fans who feel wronged…And their mothers are not terribly kind either….

I don't know if he's the best choice, but it's definitely a step up from Hardwicke. Twilight was just a horrible film.

@Pat: I agree someone like Alfonso would be great, I felt Twilight lacked character building.

I don't think Hardwicke was perfect but she was good in that she knew that the next film would take time to be a better production. I read earlier today that Summit wants New moon out by late 2009, not sure that could be a good thing and they want to replace Taylor Lautner, not because of his acting because he isn't going to be tall enough by the time filming should start. AND I also read that this instalment has only been alotted $50 million. WHA!!!!!

SUMMIT!!!! Is screwing the franchise up! WAY TO BE GREEDY!

If there is a whif that New Moon is crap I will boycott this movie and encourage others to do the same.

Write in campaign! Seriously!

Considering the budget they had for Twilight i thought the movie was good, it was what i expected. . . the scene when bella walks into bio class is gay! Rob ruined it by covering his mouth like he was gunna vomit. STUPID! But Catherine Hardwicke is just a bad director, she would just screw up the special effects needed for New Moon. Chris Weitz did and awesome job with The Golden Compass.

okay gonna say i didn't even see the movie but i saw the previews… they got nothing right and the overall feel to the movie that i saw was too serious and airy, i think even though the golden compass was botched, i saw it and read the books, he'd at least be good with certain aspects like werewolves and transitions, twilight was an utter failure to me, i heard the main characters didn't look right, but then again these are my opinions and honestly i don't think new moon could be worse than twilight

I think Twilight was the best movie I have ever watched and all the books are masterpieces,people who havent read the book might not understand the movie but hello people its based on the book!The main characters looked perfect especially RORRERT PATTINSON ( THE HOTTEST SEXIEST…. OMW HE CAN BITE ME ANYTIME)& KIRISTEN STEWART(THE CHEMISTRY WAS AWESOME)NEW MOON IS GONNA ROCK i HOPE BUT i REALLY HOPE THEY DONT GET A NEW DIRECTER!!Please read the books you will not regret it its the most awesome thing ever!!
TWILIGHT rocks!!