David Slade

They are very distinct.

The film's director, David Slade, intentionally tinted the entire film in those stark blues and whites.

The snow, the darkness, the freezing Alaskan environment, it acts as a blank, freezing canvas.

canvas.So when the violence happens, and it is incredibly violent, it is jarring.

Then it was dusted off, completely reworked, and turned back into a three-issue miniseries of horror comic books published by IDW in 2002.

And then after the massive success of the comic, Hollywood suddenly saw the vision, and it was finally developed into a 2007 feature film directed by David Slade and starring Josh Hartnett.

It is the textbook definition of development hell but with a triumphant resolution.

It highlights how liquid an idea can be if the creator is persistent.

And Chris White was still in post-production on New Moon when they had to start shooting Eclipse in order to hit the target the next year.

So they basically hired David Slade, who came in.

He had done 30 Days of Night, which I loved.

I was a big Steve Niles, Criminal Macabre, and 30 Days, very cool.

I do like Eclipse.

Eclipse was made by David Slade, the director of 30 Days of Night, the movie.

Oh.

So that was really fucking weird.

mess

quite a bad film really doesn't work David Slade's a dreadful director

So unfortunate because I think Eclipse was definitely the better book than New Moon.

It

It's a good book.

I think they just picked the wrong director.

David Slade is a horror guy.

He didn't get the romance.

Without further ado, let's get to our movie review of The Twilight Saga Eclipse.

The Twilight Saga Eclipse, directed by David Slade, is the third instalment in the popular Supernatural series based on Stephanie Meyer's novels.

Released in 2010, the film continues the saga of Bella Swan, played by Kristen Stewart, who finds herself in a perilous situation as Seattle is plagued by mysterious killings.

A vengeful vampire, Victoria, played by Bryce Dallas Howard, is on a quest for revenge and Bella must navigate her feelings for Edward Cullen, played by Robert Pattinson, and Jacob Black, played by Taylor Lautner, knowing her choice could spark a war between vampires and werewolves.

Mirror.

It was written by Charlie Brooker and directed by David Slade and it premiered on Netflix on the 28th of December 2018.

Now the thing that makes this interesting, for this podcast in particular, is that the main character is a young programmer called Stephen Butler, who's basically adapting a fantasy game book into a video game in 1984.

So very home microcomputer based.