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Bekmambetov's 'Twilight Watch' in Peril, Trilogy Doomed?
Thursday, June 19, 2008


By: BC
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Originally announced as DUSK WATCH via 20th Century Fox, it has been nearly a year since Timur Bekmambetov's Twilight Watch was conceived. The film was to be the final film in the Russian trilogy that began with the infamous NIGHT WATCH, only Bekmambetov went off to shoot WANTED for Universal Pictures instead. B-D reporter BC caught up with the director to find out exactly what is going on with the project, the news isn't good...

While out doing promotional duties for his American debut, WANTED (which is a damn good movie), we asked director Timur Bekmambetov about the status of the next NIGHT WATCH film, aka TWILIGHT WATCH, which was announced way back when as the first English film in the franchise.

It’s a big mess! I don’t know what will happen with this project," he reveals to Bloody-Disgusting. "WANTED took its place. WANTED became the American version of NIGHT WATCH. So for the moment I am not doing this.

Whether this means the film will never be made, or simply handed over to another director is unknown, but Timur seems worried about repeating himself so soon.

I don’t know what I could add, how to make it different. Right now it would just be another Wanted.

But he’s not entirely giving up on vampires; the visionary director still plans on filming THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR, which is about “vampires knights looking for the Holy Grail”. He's also still producing the animated sci-fi/fantasy NINE with Tim Burton, so there will be plenty of Bekmambetov goodness to make up for the possible loss of Twilight Watch. And for DAY WATCH fans: we also asked which Timur thinks is a more powerful object: WANTED'S 'Loom of Fate' or DAY WATCH'S 'Chalk of Destiny'. Timur laughed and then pondered it for a bit, before deciding that “The Chalk” was indeed more powerful.

WANTED hits theaters on June 27th, and Timur’s extraordinary WATCH films are hitting Blu-ray (Woo!) later this summer.

Source: Bloody-Disgusting

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CJ_01976
11:41pm, June 19, 2008

I think it is for the best. An English version would suck ass.


korollocke
12:43am, June 20, 2008

I agree, what else could you say on the concept?


shattered68
2:29am, June 20, 2008

I liked Night Watch , but thought that Daywatch was an overlong snooze.


appleOFdiscord
6:35am, June 20, 2008

I'm confused here, so WANTED is supposed to be a sort of remake to Night Watch for the US?? And if so (or whatever) its so lame for the director to say "well i did WANTED instead and its very similar so why do another Night Watch"!


nohandtyper
7:19am, June 20, 2008

Wanted looks nothing like the Night Watch movie (though it does look damn good). I'm sort of glad though that they wont add an English installment. Even though it would have been done by the same director, I think it would have destroyed the series. It wasn't meant to be American.


CJ_01976
7:30am, June 20, 2008

Doing an American version of "Night Watch" is like having a Mexican play James Bond. It's just not right.


appleOFdiscord
8:21am, June 20, 2008

So any chance the third movie in the Night Watch trilogy will be made in Russia just like the other 2?


JGrayland
10:52am, June 20, 2008

Wanted is similar to the Watch series from a stylistic sense and some basic themes (fate and destiny). What Timur means is that he's, at this point, kind of bored with doing these things. If you look at his filmography, he also does comedies and stuff like that, not all stylish action/fantasy.


korollocke
11:47pm, June 20, 2008

Wanted is nothing like the comic, thought Milliar hard more integreity, I was looking to forward to seeing Fuckwit and Mr.Riktus on the big screen.


Torch911
11:13am, June 24, 2008

I don't see why an American Day Watch is impossible, the story tells about watches all over the world. We just need a mission that spans the world (not hard considering the two Greats have been found) and voila. I'll be seeing Wanted now because of his comparison but I'm really upset about Dusk/Twilight Watch.


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