A million miles away from the romance of Twilight, director Chris Weitz reveals how his own family inspired his new film about illegal immigrants
I was sitting in a square in Montepulciano, a hillside town in Tuscany. It had a pristine, red-brick-tiled, symmetrical main square that offered a lovely setting for my heroine, Bella, to run to her vampire swain, Edward, through a crowd of red-robed celebrants. But the set of The Twilight Saga: New Moon was perhaps the least likely place to get the go-ahead on A Better Life, a story about an illegal immigrant and his son in East Los Angeles. But that's where Patrick Wachsberger, co-chairman of Summit and guardian of the Twilight franchise coffers, told me he wanted to make it. I think I said something like: "Are you sure, patron?" And, whether it was the wine, the sun, or Montelpulciano, he nodded yes.
It would...
I was sitting in a square in Montepulciano, a hillside town in Tuscany. It had a pristine, red-brick-tiled, symmetrical main square that offered a lovely setting for my heroine, Bella, to run to her vampire swain, Edward, through a crowd of red-robed celebrants. But the set of The Twilight Saga: New Moon was perhaps the least likely place to get the go-ahead on A Better Life, a story about an illegal immigrant and his son in East Los Angeles. But that's where Patrick Wachsberger, co-chairman of Summit and guardian of the Twilight franchise coffers, told me he wanted to make it. I think I said something like: "Are you sure, patron?" And, whether it was the wine, the sun, or Montelpulciano, he nodded yes.
It would...
- 7/28/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
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