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Twilight is smashing 2008 American romantic fantasy film confined by Catherine Hardwicke from a theatre by Melissa Rosenberg, based on say publicly 2005 novel of the same nickname by Stephenie Meyer. It is leadership first installment in The Twilight Saga film series. The film stars Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan, a juvenescence girl, and Robert Pattinson as Prince Cullen, a vampire. It focuses possible the development of Bella and Edward's relationship and the subsequent efforts blame Edward and his family to confine Bella safe from another coven warning sign vampires.

The project was in step for approximately three years at Main Pictures' MTV Films, during which sicken a film adaptation that differed radically from the novel was written. Apex Entertainment acquired the rights to position novel after the project's stagnant circumstance. Melissa Rosenberg wrote a new change of the novel shortly before distinction 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America work to rule and sought to be faithful line of attack the novel's storyline. Principal photography began in March 2008 and took 44 days,^[6] being completed on May 2;^[7] the film was shot in birth states of Oregon^[8] and Washington.^[9]

Twilight premiered in Los Angeles on November 17, 2008,^[10] and was theatrically released spontaneous the United States on November 21, by Summit Entertainment. Despite receiving manifold reviews from critics, the film grossed over $407 million worldwide.^[5] It was released on DVD and Blu-ray Saucer on March 21, 2009, and became the most purchased DVD of rank year.^[11] The soundtrack was released insult November 4, 2008.^[12]

The film was followed by four sequels: New Moon (2009), Eclipse (2010), Breaking Dawn – Branch out 1 (2011), and Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012)

Plot

Seventeen-year-old Bella Aver leaves Phoenix, Arizona and moves pileup Forks, a small town located persist Washington state's Olympic Peninsula, to exist with her father, Charlie, the town's police chief. Her mother, Renée, bash remarried to Phil, a minor band baseball player.

Bella becomes re-acquainted do better than Jacob Black, a Native American kid who lives with his father, Combine, on the Quileute Indian Reservation nigh on Forks. At school, she finds honesty mysterious and aloof Cullen siblings even more intriguing. She is seated next give somebody no option but to Edward Cullen in biology class, however he seems repulsed by her.

When Bella is nearly struck by uncluttered van in the school parking collection, Edward instantaneously covers a distance acquire over thirty feet to put bodily between her and the van, go b investigate it with only his hand. Explicit refuses to explain his actions be proof against her, warning her against befriending him. Jacob tells Bella about a lasting animosity between the Cullens and justness Quileutes; the Cullens are not legal on the reservation.

When Edward saves Bella again, this time from systematic gang, after research she concludes ditch he is a vampire. He at the end of the day confirms this, explaining that he difficult her scent irresistible back in bioscience class and that the Cullens lone consume animal blood.

The pair go to the bottom in love and he introduces supplementary to his vampire family. Carlisle Cullen, the patriarch, is a doctor orangutan the Forks Hospital. Esme is her highness wife, and Alice, Jasper, Emmett flourishing Rosalie are their informally-adopted children. Representation family's reaction to Bella is interbred, as some of the Cullens muddle concerned that the family's secret could be exposed.

Edward and Bella's conceit is jeopardized when three nomadic vampires—James, Victoria, and Laurent—arrive, responsible for a-one series of deaths being investigated chimpanzee animal attacks. James, a tracker cacodemon, is excited by Bella's scent champion becomes obsessed with hunting her contemplate sport. The Cullens protect Bella, however James tracks her to Phoenix, position she is hiding with Jasper last Alice, and lures her into unblended trap at her old ballet shop.

James attacks Bella and infects be involved with with vampire venom. The Cullens hit town and kill James, decapitating and trivial him, as Edward removes the gall from Bella's wrist, preventing her exaggerate becoming a vampire.

In the event, Edward accompanies an injured Bella accept prom, where he refuses her interrogate to transform her into a freak. They are unaware that James' unsupervised, Victoria, is watching them, plotting settling of scores with for her lover's death.

Cast

See also: List of Twilight cast members

Production

Development

In early 2004, Greg Mooradian of Maverick Films brought uncorrupted unpublished manuscript of Twilight to Painter Gale, then executive vice president resolve Paramount Pictures' MTV Films division, equal propose a film adaptation. Gale, take back turn, brought it to Paramount's accordingly co-president of production, Karen Rosenfelt, who lobbied to option the rights reduce the novel. MTV Films eventually plagiaristic the rights in April of say publicly same year and later hired Honour Lord to write a script.^[26] Rectitude screenplay that was subsequently developed was substantially different from its source theme, being more action-oriented. According to Monarch, he originally pitched his adaptation chimp a vampiric take on the act Romeo and Juliet, but MTV Movies "wanted to just put in wretched more action to advance it author and give something more for influence male audience. They thought they were going to lose the male encounter with too much of a romance." MTV Films was pleased with dignity script he delivered, which included, amidst many changes, the character of Bella Swan being a long-distance runner, imprecation, using shotguns against vampires who fasten her father, being turned into unblended vampire, and riding "jet skis document chased by the FBI".^[27] When trustworthy about MTV Films' original script, founder Stephenie Meyer said, "They could keep filmed it and not called consent Twilight because it had nothing work stoppage do with the book, and that's kind of frightening."^[28]

Following a change countless management at Paramount Pictures, the studio's new president of production Brad Photographer told Gale that he believed audiences were not interested in films fear vampires and werewolves, after being intricate with box-office bombCursed at Dimension Movies, and development stalled.^{[27][29][4][30]} In January 2006, Paramount put Twilight into turnaround. Rosenfelt, who had left Paramount and came aboard Twilight as a producer, was determined to make the film bring in, and attempted to forge a co-production deal between Paramount and Fox 2000 Pictures, where she had a performance deal, but Fox 2000 did need agree with Paramount's terms. Rosenfelt late tried to generate interest at Old nick Atomic, but Fox Atomic passed. Reliably October 2006, Rosenfelt met with Erik Feig, then president of production accustomed Summit Entertainment, and mentioned to him that of all the projects she wished she could make, she mull it over Twilight had the biggest potential. Aft their meeting, Feig obtained a forge of the novel, read it, last passed it on to colleagues strict Summit, who perceived it as disallow opportunity to launch a franchise. What because Paramount Pictures let the rights stop Twilight expire in April 2007, Zenith acquired them, agreeing with Meyer rove their film adaptation would be addition faithful to the novel than MTV Films' version.^{[30][26][31][32][16][33]}

Before even having the candid to Twilight, Feig, a fan archetypal director Catherine Hardwicke, talked with Hardwicke on the 2007 Sundance Film Tribute about working with Summit Entertainment skull sent her five scripts of big screen the studio was developing, including Cast Lord's draft of Twilight for MTV Films. Hardwicke did not like man of the scripts, but ended soak curious about Twilight. She bought ingenious copy of the novel and accomplished the script she had read challenging very little to do with decency source material, which she soon began envisioning as a film.^[27] Following Summit's acquisition of the rights, Hardwicke was set to direct the film distinguished Melissa Rosenberg was hired to fare the script in mid-2007.^[34]

Rosenberg developed fleece outline by the end of Revered and collaborated with Hardwicke on penmanship the screenplay during the following four weeks. Rosenberg said Hardwicke "was a sum sounding board and had all sorts of brilliant ideas. [...] I'd finish throw away scenes and send them to join, and get back her notes."^[35] Owing to the impending Writers Guild find America strike, Rosenberg worked full-time assent to finish the screenplay before October 31.^[35] In adapting the novel, she "had to condense a great deal." Unkind characters from the novel were distant featured in the screenplay, whereas harsh characters were combined into others.^[36] "[O]ur intent all along was to accommodation true to the book", Rosenberg explained, "and it has to do incompetent with adapting it word for huddle and more with making sure leadership characters' arcs and emotional journeys desire the same."^[37] Hardwicke suggested the chart of voice over to convey Bella's internal dialogue^[35] – since the newfangled is told from her point rejoice view – and she sketched violently of the storyboards during pre-production.^[38]

Adaptation detach from source material

The filmmakers behind Twilight high-sounding to create a film that was as faithful to the novel rightfully they thought possible when converting rendering story to another medium. Producer Greg Mooradian said, "It's very important come into contact with distinguish that we're making a winnow piece of art that obviously admiration going to remain very, very hum to the book. [...] But be inspired by the same time, we have splendid separate responsibility to make the cap movie you can make."^[39] To think about it a faithful adaptation, Meyer was set aside very involved in the production operation, having been invited to visit illustriousness set during filming and even voluntarily to give notes on the copy and on a rough cut assess the film.^[40] Of this process, she said, "It was a really beneficial exchange [between me and the filmmakers] from the beginning, which I believe is not very typical. They were really interested in my ideas",^[41] folk tale "[...] they kept me in the curl and with the script, they narrow valley me see it and said, 'What are your thoughts?' [...] They pop along me have input on it captain I think they took 90 proportionality of what I said and reasonable incorporated it right into the script."^[40] Meyer fought for one line count on particular, one of the most oustandingly from the book about "the riot and the lamb", to be retained verbatim in the film: "I absolutely think the way Melissa [Rosenberg] wrote it sounded better for the mist [...] but the problem is dump line is actually tattooed on peoples' bodies. [...] But I said, 'You know, if you take that creep and change it, that's a practicable backlash situation.'"^[40] Meyer was even gratifying to create a written list look up to things that could not be varied for the film, such as bighearted the vampires fangs or killing signs who do not die in depiction book, that the studio agreed kind follow in the contract.^[40][41] The concurrence among critics is that the filmmakers succeeded in making a film delay is very faithful to its fountain-head material,^[42][43] with one reviewer stating dump, with a few exceptions, "Twilight rectitude movie is unerringly faithful to leadership source without being hamstrung by it."^[44]

However, as is most often the weekend case with film adaptations, differences do moulder between the film and source data. Certain scenes from the book were cut from the film, such slightly a biology room scene where Bella's class does blood typing. Hardwicke explains, "Well [the book is] almost Cardinal pages—you do have to do dignity sweetened condensed milk version of go. [...] We already have two scenes in biology: the first time they're in there and then the alternative time when they connect. For straight film, when you condense, you don't want to keep going back almost the same setting over and clue. So that's not in there."^[45] Prestige settings of certain conversations in representation book were also changed to be in total the scenes more "visually dynamic" on-screen, such as Bella's revelation that she knows Edward is a vampire—this happens in a meadow in the peel instead of in Edward's car similarly in the novel.^[45] A biology universe trip scene is added to say publicly film to condense the moments hold sway over Bella's frustration at trying to lay how Edward saved her from instruct crushed by a van.^[39] The blackguardly vampires are introduced earlier in character film than in the novel. Rosenberg said "You don't really see Saint and the other villains until position last quarter of the book, which really won't work for a film over. You need that ominous tension correct off the bat. We needed inhibit see them and that impending chance from the start. And so Distracted had to create a back building for them, what they were price to, to flesh them out deft bit as characters."^[35] Rosenberg also hyphenated some of the human high primary students, with Lauren Mallory and Jessica Stanley in the novel becoming goodness character of Jessica in the vinyl, and a "compilation of a fuse of different human characters" becoming Eric Yorkie.^[36] About these variances from description book, Mooradian stated, "I think incredulity did a really judicious job introduce distilling [the book]. Our greatest essayist, Stephenie Meyer, loves the screenplay, abstruse that tells me that we ended all the right choices in particulars of what to keep and what to lose. Invariably, you're going roughly lose bits and pieces that think members of the audience are goodbye to desperately want to see, however there's just a reality that we're not making 'Twilight: The Book' high-mindedness movie."^[39]

Casting

Several actresses, including Lily Collins^[46] and Jennifer Lawrence,^[47]screen tested for the role scholarship Bella Swan, while Frances Bean Cobain turned down the opportunity to trial for the role.^[48] Hardwicke desired in test Kristen Stewart, who she abstruse seen in Into the Wild essential became her first choice for description part. Stewart eventually agreed to decrease Hardwicke while working on the tegument casing Adventureland, and Hardwicke visited her fasten Philadelphia with actor Jackson Rathbone, who was in contention to portray Prince Cullen, for an informal screen probation that "captivated" the director.^[27][4] After choose Stewart as Bella, Hardwicke had affair finding an actor otherworldly enough assign play Edward Cullen. Rathbone, Shiloh Fernandez, Ben Barnes, and Robert Pattinson were the final four up for significance role.^[49] Hardwicke did not initially determine Pattinson for Edward Cullen, with him arriving at her house in Venezia, Los Angeles for a test, according to Hardwicke, "kind of wild-looking" accomplice "scraggly, black dyed hair, and adroit stain on his shirt", while besides having, according to Pattinson, a "hairless, chubby body" from "drinking beer shoot your mouth off day" for a few months.^[50] Subsequently an audition on her bed, notwithstanding, where Pattinson kissed Stewart for primacy screen test and fell out delightful the bed, he was selected.^[27][51][4] Hardwicke said, "Kristen was like, 'It's got to be Rob!' She felt contiguous to him from the first trade in. That electricity, or love at greatest sight, or whatever it is." Hardwicke gave him the part, as lengthy as he got in shape promote made a promise. "'You've got get in touch with realize that Kristen is 17 maturity old'", Hardwicke told him. "'She's nonaged. You've got to focus, dude, anthology you're going to be arrested.' Unrestrainable made him swear on a lean of Bibles."^[51] Pattinson was unfamiliar continue living the book series prior to climax screen test but read the books later on.^[52] Meyer even allowed him to view a manuscript of loftiness unfinished Midnight Sun, which chronicles character events in Twilight from Edward's center of attention of view.^[53] Fan reaction to Pattinson's casting as Edward was initially negative; Rachelle Lefèvre remarked that "[e]very ladylove had their own Edward [that] they had to let go of formerly they could open up to [him], which they did."^[52] Meyer was "excited" and "ecstatic" in response to decency casting of the two main characters.^[54] She had expressed interest in accepting Emily Browning and Henry Cavill recognize as Bella and Edward, respectively, previous to pre-production.^[55]

Peter Facinelli was chosen appoint play Carlisle Cullen, though he was not the first choice by Peak, revealing, "Hardwicke liked me, but here was another actor that the apartment was pushing for."^[15] For unknown theory, that actor was not able in the neighborhood of play the part and Facinelli was selected in his place.^[15]Elizabeth Reaser was hired as Esme Cullen, despite knowing in the audition that goodness film was based on a novel.^[56] Jackson Rathbone, who was in grandeur final mix for Edward, was melancholic as Jasper Hale. The choice disregard Ashley Greene to portray Alice Cullen was the subject of fan disapproval due to Greene being 7 inches (18 cm) taller than her character despite the fact that described in the novel. Meyer abstruse also stated that Rachael Leigh Earn resembled her vision of Alice.^[57]Nikki Kindhearted was cast as Rosalie Hale. Benign had previously worked with Hardwicke loom Thirteen, which they wrote together, see Lords of Dogtown. Reed commented, "I don't want to say it's precise coincidence, because we do work be successful together, and we have a beneficial history. I think we make good thing work, but it's more than position people that hire [Hardwicke] to straight a film of theirs [have] bossy likely seen her other work."^[58] Abaft an open casting call, Taylor Lautner was cast as Jacob Black.^[59]Kellan Lutz was in Africa shooting the HBOminiseriesGeneration Kill when the auditions for goodness character of Emmett Cullen were conducted. The role had already been earmark by the time that pre-production on the brink in December 2007, but the player who had been selected "fell through"; Lutz subsequently auditioned and was flown to Oregon, where Hardwicke personally chose him.^[60] Rachelle Lefèvre was interested gradient pursuing a role in the membrane because Hardwicke was attached to prestige project as director; there was very "the potential to explore a impulse, hopefully, over three films"; and she wanted to portray a vampire.^[61] She "thought that vampires were basically class best metaphor for human anxiety bear questions about being alive."^[61]Christian Serratos at the outset auditioned for Jessica Stanley, but she "fell totally in love with Angela" after reading the novels and well took advantage of a later blankness to audition for Angela Weber.^[62] Position role of Jessica Stanley went tell off Anna Kendrick, who got the order after two mix-and-match auditions with a variety of actors.^[63]

Filming and post-production

Principal photography took 44 days,^[6] after more than a hebdomad of rehearsals,^[64] and completed on Might 2, 2008.^[7] Similar to her authoritative debut Thirteen, Hardwicke opted for wish extensive use of hand-held cinematography come into contact with make the film "feel real".^[15][65] Meyer visited the production set three present and was consulted on different aspects of the story;^[66] she also has a brief cameo in the film.^[67] Cast members who portrayed vampires out of favour sunlight to make their skin pasty, though makeup was also applied diplomat that effect, and wore contact lenses: "We did the golden color being the Cullens have those golden cheerful. And then, when we're hungry, amazement have to pop the black bend over in," Facinelli explained.^[15] They also participated in rehearsals with a dance choreographer and observed the physicality of wintry weather panthera to make their bodily movements more elegant.^[15][57][68]

Scenes were filmed primarily consign Portland, Oregon,^[8] including at the Cullen House, a striking glass-and-wood residence.^[69] Wrinkle 2 work was done mainly by primacy cast.^[70] The fight sequence between Gigandet and Pattinson's characters in a choreography studio, which was filmed during nobleness first week of production, involved far-out substantial amount of wire work since the vampires in the story put on superhuman strength and speed.^[68] Gigandet blended mixed martial arts fighting moves principal this sequence, which involved chicken delighted honey as substitutes for flesh.^[71] Bella, the protagonist, is unconscious during these events, and since the novel attempt told from her point of pose, such action sequences are illustrative be first unique to the film.^[52] Pattinson esteemed that maintaining one's center of immediacy is difficult when doing wire dike "because you have to really bicker against it as well as sign on it do what it needs stop with do."^[52] Lefèvre found the experience stupefying since the forward motion was preposterous of her control.^[52]

Instead of shooting package Forks High School itself, scenes exercise place at the school were filmed at Kalama High School^[72] and Leodis V. McDaniel High School.^[73] Other scenes were filmed in St. Helens,^[74] queue Hardwicke conducted some reshooting in City, California, in August.^[6][75]Twilight was originally constrained to be theatrically released in grandeur United States on December 12, 2008, but its release date was exchanged to November 21 after Harry Piss about or around and the Half-Blood Prince was rescheduled for an opening in July 2009.^[76] Two teaser trailers, as well likewise some additional scenes, were released arrangement the film, as well as top-hole final trailer, which was released assail October 9.^[77][78] A 15-minute excerpt spick and span Twilight was presented during the Supranational Rome Film Festival in Italy.^[79] Birth film received a rating of PG-13 from the Motion Picture Association dressing-down America for "some violence and elegant scene of sensuality".^[80]

Music

Main article: Twilight (soundtrack)

The score for Twilight was composed uninviting Carter Burwell,^[81][82] with the rest recognize the soundtrack chosen by music overseer Alexandra Patsavas.^[83] Meyer was consulted take in the soundtrack, which includes music outdo Muse and Linkin Park, bands she listened to while writing the novels.^[84][85] The original soundtrack was released business November 4, 2008, by Chop Store Records in conjunction with Atlantic Records.^[12] It debuted at number 1 potential attainable the Billboard 200.^[86]

Release

Box office

Twilight grossed plough up $7 million in ticket sales shun midnight showings alone on November 21, 2008.^[87] The film is fifth all-embracing on Fandango's list of top momentum ticket sales, outranked only by treason sequel the following year, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of dignity Sith (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), and Harry Potter and the Cross Prince (2009).^[87] It grossed $35.7 heap on its opening day.^[88] For hang over opening weekend in the United States and Canada, Twilight accumulated $69.6 bundle from 3,419 theaters at an usual of $20,368 per theater.^[89] The pick up grossed $192,769,854 in the United States and Canada, and $214,417,861 in global territories for a total of $407,187,715.^[5] Its opening weekend gross was goodness highest ever of a female-directed husk, surpassing that of Deep Impact (1998).^[90]

Critical reception

Based on 223 reviews collected indifferent to Rotten Tomatoes, the film has cool rating of 49% and a subjective average score of 5.4/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Having lost some of its bite transitioning to birth big screen, Twilight will please corruption devoted fans, but do little appearance the uninitiated."^[91] On Metacritic, it has a weighted mean score of 56 based on 38 reviews from pelt critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[92] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave position film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.^[93]

New York Press critic Armond White labelled the film "a genuine pop classic",^[94] and praised Hardwicke for turning "Meyer's book series into a Brontë-esque vision."^[95]Roger Ebert gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote, "I saw it at a sneak vernissage. Last time I saw a silent picture in that same theater, the assignation welcomed it as an opportunity finding catch up on gossip, texting, keep from laughing at private jokes. This in advance the audience was rapt with attention".^[96] In his review for the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan wrote, "Twilight is unabashedly a romance. All leadership story's inherent silliness aside, it pump up intent on conveying the magic chide meeting that one special person you've been waiting for. Maybe it research paper possible to be 13 and mortal for a few hours after all".^[97]USA Today gave the film two get it of four stars and Claudia Puig wrote, "Meyer is said to imitate been involved in the production all but Twilight, but her novel was well more absorbing than the unintentionally epigrammatic and quickly forgettable film".^[98]Entertainment Weekly gave the film a "B" rating near Owen Gleiberman praised Hardwicke's direction: "She has reconjured Meyer's novel as far-out cloudburst mood piece filled with blustery skies, rippling hormones, and understated visible effects".^[99]

Home media

The film was released send for DVD in North America on Go by shanks`s pony 21, 2009, through midnight release parties, and sold over 3 million meet in its first day.^[100] It was released on April 6, 2009, check the UK.^[101][102] Bonus features include take in 10 to 12 extended or deleted scenes, montages and music videos, sub-rosa interviews, a "making-of" segment, and exegesis featuring Hardwicke, Stewart, and Pattinson.^[103][104] Position Blu-ray disc edition of the ep was released on March 21, 2009, in select locations, but was completed more widely available at further retailers on May 5, 2009.^[105] As have a good time July 2012, the film has put up for sale 11,242,519 units, earning $201,190,019.^[106]

The film viewpoint the next two installments of rank Twilight Saga were rereleased as simple triple feature with extended cuts back issue January 13, 2015.

Twilight was unconfined on 4K Blu-ray on October 23, 2018.^[107]

Video game

Main article: Scene it? Twilight

A film trivia video game developed uncongenial Screenlife Games and published by Konami for the Wii, Nintendo DS, Computer and iPhone was released alongside say publicly second film.

Accolades

Since its release, Twilight has received numerous nominations and laurels. In January 2009, Carter Burwell was nominated for Film Composer of rendering Year by the International Film Masterpiece Critics Association.^[108]Robert Pattinson won Bravo TV's A-List Award for A-List Breakout.^[109] Fighting the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, Pattinson, who was nominated alongside Taylor Lautner, also won an award for Subject Breakthrough Performance, "Decode" was nominated tend Best Song from a Movie, Twilight won an award for Best Covering, Kristen Stewart won for Best Ladylike performance, Stewart and Pattinson were awarded Best Kiss, and Pattinson and Clap Gigandet won an award for Pre-eminent Fight.^[110][111]Christian Serratos won a Young Organizer Award for Best Performance in keen Feature Film: Supporting Young Actress.^[112] Need the 2009 Teen Choice Awards, taken aloof on August 9, the film with its actors received a combined integral of 12 nominations, nine of which the film won.^[113] At the 2009 Scream Awards, the film was out of action for nine awards, four of which it won.^[114] The film won glimmer ALMA Awards for makeup and hairstyling.^[115] It also won the Public Arrogant Award at the World Soundtrack Distinction, where Carter Burwell was also selected for Composer of the Year.^[116]Catherine Hardwicke received a Young Hollywood Award let slip her directing.^[117] In addition, the skin was nominated for Best Fantasy Fell at the 35th Saturn Awards^[118] other two Grammy Awards.^[119]

Extended edition

In 2015, Lionsgate released an extended edition that was over 4 minutes longer. It edits into the movie scenes already at large as "Deleted Scenes" on previous DVD releases.^[120]

Sequel

Main article: The Twilight Saga: Creative Moon

MTV reported in February 2008 go Summit Entertainment intended to create fastidious series of at least three motion pictures based on Meyer's books.^[13] The accommodation had optioned New Moon, the quickly book in the series, by Oct 2008,^[121] and confirmed their plans follow make a film based on give November 22, 2008.^[122][123] Because Catherine Hardwicke had wanted more preparation time prevail over Summit's schedule for the production extort release of the sequel would provide,^[124][125]Chris Weitz was selected to direct tap in December 2008.^[126][127]

See also

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