Trouble with "Eclipse" or just rampant paranoia from Twi-hards?

There hasn't been much news about the third Twilight film since the trailer was released, which in and of itself is kind of odd given how much PR went into marketing New Moon, but this week, gossip sites have been abuzz with the leaked news that Summit has ordered re-shoots of some of the scenes in Eclipse. This tidbit has everyone speculating that Summit isn't happy with the film and is trying to do emergency repairs. I've found that Ted over at E!online is usually the most accurate with his gossip reporting, and what he released yesterday makes sense to me.

Here's the thing. Re-shoots are a totally normal part of film making. Every big film does it, period. However, re-shoots two months before the movie is supposed to hit theaters? Uh, no. That screams that there is a problem somewhere. The upside is that Summit is obviously trying to fix it at great expense to them, I'm sure. I haven't seen any confirmed reports that the re-shoots involve Robert Pattinson, and since he's in Budapest filming another movie right now, I'd say probably not. All of us Twi-hards know that Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner are not currently filming other projects, so they could be involved in the re-shoots. Quite frankly, they can try to fix the Jacob-Bella scenes all they want, but those two will never have the right chemistry. That's just my opinion though.

Rumors are running rampant on forums and in comment sections, though, about a falling out between David Slade and Summit. I've been tracking one poster's comments (yes, I am an OCD Nancy Drew type with no life) and I'm pretty sure he/she is an insider because every comment he/she ever posted has ended up coming true. This is the last comment I could find posted by him/her:

Let me let you kiddies on what's really going on. David Slade hasn't been happy since Summit forced him to fire his editor. He got back at them by making the movie more male oriented and violent. Summit was too busy winning Oscars and counting their moolah to pay much attention. Now the final copy of Eclipse has been shown to a small focus group of fans that signed non-disclosures. The general agreement was that the movie did not in any way capture the book. There is too much added on action and violence. Summit is scared that their core audience of female fans that made them those billions won't go see this. Eclipse is the one they've put the most money into and they want a big chunk of change. The only way that they know to make it better is to get Robsten out to re film some scenes. David Slade will not be filming them. It'll all come out in a week or two and the movie will get pushed back to July. Smooches.

As an experiment, I'm singling it out to see if the news does come out ina week or so that Slade isn't directing the re-shoots. If so, then I'll worry. Until then, I'm not really worried that Eclipse is going to suck anymore, and I'm not jumping on this bandwagon of fans who see these re-shoots as an omen of bad things to come. Like I said, re-shoots are normal.

Besides, the FINAL trailer for Eclipse is being released April 23, during Oprah of all things. And that's definitely good news for Twi-hards. Here's hoping they give us something to sink our teeth into. Bring on the newborns, I say. Let's finally see glimpses of them in action for crying out loud.