Twilight Eclipse Trailer – Bryce Dallas puts on producer’s hat

Twilight Eclipse Trailer – After supporting turns in box office hits like The Help and The Twilight Saga Eclipse, the last thing you’d expect to see beside actress Bryce Dallas Howard’s name is the word producer. But when her friend Jason Lew handed her the script for Restless, a tender love story between a funeral-crasher who falls in love with a girl who is about to die, she knew she had to get involved. “I knew Jason from my time at NYU and he gave me an early draft of Restless and I was so moved by it,” a very-pregnant Howard tells QMI Agency. They chatted on-and-off for two years, with Howard — who is the daughter of director Ron Howard – offering her input into the quirky romance. By the time the script was polished, Lew had convinced the actress she had to produce the film. “After a few years of brainstorming and showing it to a few people, Jason said, ‘Bryce, you have to admit it now. You are the producer on this film. You need to set this up.’ ” With no behind-the-scenes industry experience, you’d think that Howard would have turned to her father, Ron.

But she didn’t do that right away. “I actually met with a few different companies,” she says, “but by far the best folks that I had met with were at Imagine which, ironically, is my dad’s company. They completely understood the film and were absolutely in alignment with Jason’s vision.” It’s a good thing, because Dad got wind of Lew’s screenplay and eagerly wanted to come on board, also as a producer. With a diverse collection of roles under her belt, including her recent turn as the racist socialite Hilly in The Help, one wonders why she didn’t opt to take a role in the film, which stars Henry Hopper (Dennis’s son) and Mia Wasikowska. “That was never part of our conversations,” she says. “I felt it was wiser to let the movie be what it was meant to be without attaching myself to it.”

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