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New Moon Director Chris Weitz Ready To Give Up DirectingBy Katey Rich: 2009-11-18 12:54:55
Don't all directors typically tease us about how much longer they want to keep their jobs? It seems inevitable that, near the end of a long press tour, a director will sigh and say something about how he doesn't know how he'll direct another film after this, or suggest that one day he'd like to just step away from it all and start something new.And Chris Weitz is nearing the end of one of the longest press tours of all time-- from the moment he was hired to direct New Moon he was scrutinized by fans, and found himself at the center of a debate about whether or not Twilight director had been fired because she was a woman. What he intended to be his masterpiece, The Golden Compass, was butchered by the studio, and now he's trying to make something worthwhile out of a terminally cheesy book, all the while subject to a rabid fanbase that would riot were a single hair touched on Edward's precious head. So really, you can't blame him for suggesting he's near the end of his rope in an interview with Moviemaker magazine, even if he does sound more certain of his own retirement than most directors in his position. "Every time I make a movie I’m pretty much convinced it’s the last time I’m going to be able to do it and that really it’s a rather silly occupation to undertake. But I think I have maybe one more film in me." The film in question is called The Gardener, which Weitz describes as an homage to The Bicycle Thief- "On the one hand it’s a very small, intimate story, but its implications are very grand." Sounds like a complete 180 from New Moon, and maybe the kind of palate cleanser that could give him enough energy to keep going, Then again, he's got some other goals: "You know, it sounds ridiculous, but I’d really like to be a better surfer. I’d like to learn to speak Spanish fluently; I’d like to travel around, live in Italy; I’d like to learn kung fu… It’s nice to make movies, but it’s also really hard.” There's a bitter response to this, which is to say "Good riddance!" and let someone else who wants it more take Weitz's place. But it's also deeply sad to see a once promising director essentially give up, having run up against the studio system and hit a wall, hard. I'm seeing New Moon in a few hours, and Weitz's name attached to the film makes me hope that it will be worth watching. But it seems that at this point, even Weitz doesn't believe that can be true.
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