"Hard Candy" meets "Twilight"

David Slade, who directed the inverted child predator saga Hard Candy, the film that introduced me to the talents of actress Ellen Page, has been signed to direct the third installment of the Twilight saga, Eclipse. Slade also made the film 30 Days of Night about vampires who take advantage of the long nights in Alaska. In this installment of Twilight, the Kristen Stewart character (left in this picture) is about to graduate from high school in Seattle and must chose (as most teenagers these days must) between the love of vampire Edward (Rob Pattinson, right in the picture) from the first film or werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner).

(I know exactly what she's going through. I remember my senior year in high school, I was faced with the choice between .... but, that's really a story for another time.)

Eclipse is set to open June 30, 2010. The second film in the series, the Chris Weitz-directed New Moon, opens Nov. 20.