New Moon Director Chris Weitz Nearly Passed On Film

At Comic Con Chris Weitz director of Twilight New Moon revealed that he nearly passed on the project. DreadCentral quotes him as saying;

"Everything happened so suddenly," explained Weitz on Thursday during Comic-Con. "I had ten days to decide whether or not I thought I could do it, so I went and watched the first film. It was because of the cast that I decided I wanted to do New Moon. It's exciting for me as a director to work with a cast of really talented young actors."

From the press conference we also have a quote from Robert Pattinson on how the film has changed from the original Twilight;

 ...it wasn't just the director that made this one different. It was so different as well because we kind of knew what type of animal that we were dealing more. I was much more of a supporting role in this one. I started three weeks after they started shooting and I did a lot of my first scenes doing the apparition scenes. That's a lot of me doing maybe one word. It was actually one of the most relaxing jobs that I've ever done. Chris has a really peaceful presence and I got  on really well with him. I had a pretty much stress free job for three months. It was great for me. All the pressure was on Taylor [laughs].

Read the entire New Moon Press Conference from Comic Con with Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner right here