Gus Van Sant almost directed Twilight: Breaking Dawn

Huh? Yep, apparently before Bill Condon won the job to direct the two-part Breaking Dawn, indie and critically acclaimed director of Milk, Gus an Sant, almost directed the teen vampire love story.

“I got very nervous,” Gus revealed. “There were like 15 people. I had never really auditioned or gone into a job interview in that way since maybe 1988 or ’87. I guess I was unprepared for that. Usually people just hire me.”

“In this case, they wanted me to talk about their project, which really needed to follow very closely the book, and which the outline was following very closely the book,” Gus said. “So there was a certain amount of room for illumination, I think, on their own project, but they were the experts.”

“I was talking about the book and really all I was saying was ‘OK, this is great, let’s go do it,’” he said. “That was my pitch and I think they’re used to something else. They’re used to, for those of you who might audition for film jobs, they’re used to like a 40-minute dissertation with perhaps visual aids and a pep talk about how fantastic this project is going to be and I just didn’t know how to how do that.”

Hmm, what might have been. Thoughts?

Source: MTV

Jon Peters

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