In a new interview, the 'Priscilla' director explains the reason why she opted out of directing the final 'Twilight' film after one single meeting with the higher-ups.
- Oct 26, 2023
AceShowbiz - Sofia Coppola could have directed "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn", if it had not been for its "too weird" storyline. The filmmaker could not help but rip the movie as she broke down the reason why she passed on directing the "Twilight" finale.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, the "Priscilla" helmer said that she was in the running to direct "Breaking Dawn", but she couldn't get past the "whole imprinting-werewolf thing" that she found "really far out." She eventually opted out of directing it after one single meeting with the higher-ups.
"We had one meeting, and it never went anywhere," Coppola recalled. "I thought the whole imprinting-werewolf thing was weird. The baby. Too weird!" She was referring to Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward's (Robert Pattinson) baby Renesmee, whom Jacob (Taylor Lautner) imprints on upon her birth to prevent his pack from killing her.
Coppola then added, "But part of the earlier 'Twilight' could be done in an interesting way. I thought it'd be fun to do a teen-vampire romance, but the last one gets really far out."
In the same interview, the daughter of Francis Ford Coppola also divulged the reason why talks with Universal to direct a live-action version of "The Little Mermaid", a completely different take than the Disney version, fell apart.
"Yes, there was [a breaking point]. I was in a boardroom and some development guy said, 'What's gonna get the 35-year-old man in the audience?' And I just didn't know what to say," the 52-year-old shared. "I just was not in my element. I feel like I was naive, and then I felt a lot like the character in the story, trying to do something out of my element, and it was a funny parallel of the story for me."
Coppola, who has received an Oscar, a Golden Globe Award and a Cannes Film Festival Award among other accolades, said she's still interested in directing a genre movie someday. "I think it'd be fun to do sci-fi and I think it'd be fun to do, not like gory, but I like gothic horror," she admitted. "I don't have an idea, though."
"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn" was split into two parts, "The Twilight Saga's Breaking Dawn - Part I" and "The Twilight Saga's Breaking Dawn - Part II", with Bill Condon serving behind the lens. The movie catapulted its three main stars to worldwide fame.
