Kristen Stewart has defined why she “felt dangerous for” Twilight sequel administrators Chris Weitz and Invoice Condon following the success of the primary film. The Twilight Saga motion pictures had been launched yearly from 2008 by way of 2012. Whereas the primary film was directed by Catherine Hardwicke, the remainder of the movie collection noticed Weitz, Condon, and David Slade take over as administrators.
Talking with The Hollywood Reporter about The Chronology of Water, her function movie directorial debut, Stewart defined how she noticed the primary Twilight film as one which maintained Hardwicke’s imaginative and prescient for the film. Regardless of changing into a popular culture cornerstone, the primary movie’s creative imaginative and prescient stood out to the collection’ star, particularly given its standing as a franchise product:
That [first] Twilight film is hers and displays her; Catherine achieved that, fingers down. Having the ability to stand up to and arrange that many opinions, and nonetheless make one thing that seems like yours, is close to not possible to do. With so many voices within the room and with a lot expectation, nothing feels private.
Stewart defined how this made her really feel dangerous for the administrators that got here after, questioning in the event that they “really felt like they absolutely directed these motion pictures.” She mentioned that she each “felt dangerous” for the administrators and “pleased with them” for attempting to deliver their very own takes to the franchise whereas additionally having to work with studio expectations for the flicks:
[The Twilight sequels] had persona, regardless of a extremely stifled course of. They really feel virtually overtly, bizarrely, spastically themselves.
You’ll want to have an extremely thirsty, hungry, brazen, deplorably slender drive. You have a look at that and also you get jealous of it as an actor. So then you definately go, ‘I’d prefer to kind my very own model of that.’
The Twilight motion pictures had completely different administrators for every adaptation of Stephanie Meyer’s novel collection. New Moon noticed Weitz step in, Eclipse was directed by Slade, and each elements of Breaking Daybreak had Condon within the director’s seat. Even so, all 5 motion pictures had been written by Melissa Rosenberg. Primarily based on Stewart’s assertion, although, each director tried bringing their imaginative and prescient to the initiatives.
Nevertheless, given the anticipated yearly turnaround for the franchise, coupled by the flicks changing into extra uniform in presentation as they went on, studio expectations would at all times be one thing to contemplate. Though they’re thought-about traditional entries in Stewart’s movie profession, her reward goes in the direction of the creatives for attempting to make every entry extra private to them.
It seems to be a freedom she’s replicating in The Chronology of Water, which holds a 95% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes primarily based on 37 evaluations. Her method did not have the identical stage of government oversight a franchise like Twilight would. Nevertheless, her reward for all the administrators’ visions reveals what number of classes she nonetheless discovered working with them.
Together with her statements emphasizing the significance of directorial imaginative and prescient, Stewart clearly discovered rather a lot from the Twilight sequel administrators, even when they had been hindered in some capacities. Her reward for his or her work and the affect it had on her is mirrored within the essential success of her personal movie, one thing that collectively makes all of their storytelling efforts worthwhile.
The Chronology of Water arrives in theaters on December 5, 2025.
- Launch Date
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November 21, 2008
- Runtime
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121 minutes
- Director
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Catherine Hardwicke
- Writers
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Melissa Rosenberg