On the next page is David Slade’s Twitter rant posted yesterday. Those loosely connected tweets are clearly a response to negative The Twilight Saga: Eclipse rumors that can be found on the Web.
Said rumors insist that Eclipse, a Summit Entertainment production starring Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner, is in trouble.
Reshoots — or "pick-ups" — were done just last week in Vancouver, though Eclipse is scheduled to have its world premiere in Los Angeles on June 24 and its general release on June 30.
As I’ve explained in a previous post, some of those rumors have proven to be wildly inaccurate in the past. The current rumors have been denied as well by Summit representatives and by Slade himself.
Here are the initial Slade tweets (dated May 2), directly addressing the negative rumors:
So strange, I go away for three weeks and return to all these upsetting completely fabricated rumours. Who makes this stuff up as news.
REAL NEWS: last 3 weeks have gone fantastic, pick up shoot felt more like a reunion. Rob, Kristen,Taylor the crew & I gave 110%. Onwards!
On the next page are Slade’s follow-ups tweets, in which the filmmaker discusses the future, denigrates bloggers, gives the impression that non-blogging online (or print?) publications actually carry "real news" (Twitter too?), worries about contagious iPads, and mentions Einstein’s much (mis)quoted statement about human beings using only 10% of their brain.
The only person I remember having anything really negative to say in her own “cryptic” way was Lainey Gossip and to tell you the truth I get it. She has made it very clear on several occasions that she hates Rob Pattinson and why not make everything look like Slade and Pattinson are at odds, not to mention she is so far up Kristen Stewarts (PR teams) A$$ that she couldn’t find a nice word about anyone BUT Kristen in her recent blogs. She blew something out of proportion that probably was not a big deal if anything at all. The idea of Summit having everything blow up in their face and blatantly lie about it could have an infinitesimal amount of truth to it but I hardly think that they would have had the time to change the everything at the last minute to have Taylor and Kristen to be put into this arduous filming schedule if Rob had just blown off his duties. Last time I checked he was considered very professional by any of the people that he has ever worked with including Oscar nominated and winning actors. So the whole idea of that is ludicrous at best. Then to follow suit Lainey’s and Kristen followers had made horrible comments about him saying he must have been smoking crack when writing the tweets or that they want to punch him in the face. I don’t think that the people that make those comments can be more than 14 years old (or at least I hope not) or even grasp the concept of what he was trying to say. The only thing he really did is infer that the person or person that wrote the blogs were misinformed and kind of stupid for writing them without doing an ounce of fact checking. He might have embellished his opinion somewhat but I think under the circumstances he was just in everything he said not to mention the tweets were kind of hysterical to those of us that understood the point of them in the first place.