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MTV suggests M. Night Shyamalan to direct Breaking Dawn



MTV has thrown M. Night Shyamalan’s hat in the ring as a potential director for Breaking Dawn. This suggestion isn’t based on any info from Summit, but instead on Shyamalan’s recent comments about Twilight at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards (and his current project The Last Airbender with Jackson Rathbone).

“I would’ve loved to be– I love the series, and Catherine [Hardwicke's] movie, it was one of my favorite movies of that year,” he said. “Really, I thought tonally, it was a perfect movie. I called her up after I saw ‘Twilight’ and was like ‘That was amazing.’ So I’m a big fan.”

Source: Twilight Moms

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Potential Breaking Dawn director Daldry signs on to different project



Stephen Daldry is attached to helm an adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer novel "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close." The "Reader" director had recently been identified as one of Summit Entertainment's shortlist candidates for "Breaking Dawn," the final chapter in the "Twilight" series. "Extremely Loud ..." will presumably put him out of the running in that race.

Foer's 9/11-themed novel, published in 2005, follows a 9-year-old boy named Oskar Schell, whose father was killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks. The multi-talented pre-adolescent finds a key that belonged to his father and searches throughout New York City to find the lock that goes with it.

The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Daldry will be working off of a script from Eric Roth, who also penned "Forrest Gump," "The Insider," "Munich" and, most recently, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." Scott Rudin will produce the Paramount/Warner Bros co-production.

"Extremely Loud..." is Foer's second novel. He debuted in 2002 with "Everything Is Illuminated," which was the subject of a 2005 film starring Elijah Wood. Liev Schreiber wrote and directed the adaptation — his first time in the director's chair — which was well-received among critics. Foer's most recent work, "Eating Animals," was published last year. A nonfiction work done in the author's trademark "postmodern" style, "Animals" casts a spotlight on factory farming in much the same way that "Fast Food Nation" did with the fast-food industry.

No one has been cast yet for "Extremely Loud ...," though little stands in the way of those announcements now that there's a director onboard to work with Roth's finished script. The casting of Oskar will obviously be key — THR notes that Daldry has a good track record with finding young actors. "Billy Elliott" and "The Reader" were both critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated films that featured talented young performers in key roles.

Source: MTV.com