Posted by Adam

Monday September 13, 2010

SOFIA Coppola wanted to direct The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.

The Lost In Translation director has revealed she held talks with movie bosses about working on the project — which will be the split into the final two movies in the vampire franchise — but it didn’t happen, despite her keenness.

“I talked to them about that. I was interested in doing something but I didn’t end up doing it,” she said.

“But I love… I’m impressed by Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson pulling it off in that whole story.

“And my friend’s kids love the story so much that I thought it would be fun to make something they love so much.

“I just love that it’s so romantic. I’m always a sucker for a love story and also to do something for teenagers, because I feel like, why not have beautiful cinematography and all these things in a kid’s movie?

“Usually it looks like it’s not crafted very sophisticated, and I feel like it’d be nice to bring the kind of style into a younger film.”

Coppola — whose new movie, Somewhere, tells the story of a movie star who comes to see the emptiness of his existence through the eyes of his 11-year-old daughter — recently admitted she doesn’t like reality TV.

“I haven’t watched tons of it,” she said. “Kind of a little here and there, but it just seems when you look at these tabloids, they’re all reality TV stars and definitely a focus on celebrity culture more than ever.

“But I’ve seen a few. The twins in my movie are from The Girls Next Door. So we do have some reality TV stars in it.”

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