Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke, who smashed the record of biggest opening weekend for a female director, will not return for the sequel, Deadline Hollywood Daily reports. Sources inside and outside Summit Entertainment said the director was “difficult and irrational” and that Summit “didn’t like her.” The official word, released in a joint statement while Hardwicke is on a press tour for Twilight, is that the quick turnaround for filming the sequel simply didn’t work out.
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