The idea that the film would be primarily grayish or reddish in color then stemmed from a look at some of David Slade's prior work - particularly Hard Candy and 30 Days Of Night. That and the fact that The Twilight Saga: New Moon's gold tones began a new trend of mixed color schemes for these varying films. Later, when the title art and first movie poster for the film were revealed, the use of gray became undoubtable.
Recently, a few new stills from The Twilight Saga: Eclipse were unveiled by studio Summit Entertainment, and of them one stands out to some readers of this column.
Yesterday, when the cover art for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion was revealed, a commenter named "Kris" shared her thoughts on the issue in very true and readable form.
"Anyone notice the deep-color theme in this flick--the blues and aquas, especially in the book cover and that pic. of the Cullens. They look like they all shopped in a denim store before the big battle!"
'Twilight' - Summit Ent.Indeed the photo of the Cullens does have a bit of that reminiscent Twilight blue hue.
Of course, there are some obvious improvements in wardrobing, stances, backdrops, and hairstyles to speak of since this photo from 2008's Twilight, but take a look at the similarities between these two photos.
You can also see a bit of the blue being used again in most of the backgrounds, landscape shots, and Volturi sequences in the official trailer for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.
In the trailer, title art, and other imagery for this film, there is certainly a great deal of gray being utilized (and the logo for film studio Summit Entertainment is gray this time as well, after having been blue for Twilight and golden for New Moon), but the blue is also quite present, don't you think?
A lot of fans were on the fence about the major use of blue hue in Twilight, but most would probably admit there was definitely some magic associated with it. So, it's very interesting to see that with Eclipse, director David Slade is bringing back some of the original tones from the film series, isn't it?
via Twilightish
