No Muse for Eclipse Soundtrack?

The band Muse is just as much a part of the the Twilight as saga as vampires and werewolves. Their song “Super Massive Black Hole” set the perfect mood for a game of vampire baseball.  Stephenie Meyer, the author of the Twilight Saga, has been a big Muse fan for years and use to listen to their music as she wrote the Twilight books. Muse was Stephenie Meyer’s muse. So out of any band, we would expect Muse to be a part of the Eclipse soundtrack. In fact a few months ago the band even hinted at a song they had for the movie. However, now we are being told that Muse will not appear on the soundtrack.

It was only days after the release of New Moon that Muse started to talk about being a part of the Eclipse soundtrack, so it was a huge shock to even them to learn that they would not be on the soundtrack for the movie. According to Muse band member Howard, the order came from the Summit heads and not from the creative department involved in Eclipse. Especially considering the bands relationships with David Slade and Stephenie Meyer. David Slade created quite a few of the bands music videos and has been working with the guys for years. And as we mentioned before Stephenie Meyer has been a fan of Muse for years, in fact their is a picture of the Stephenie Meyer with the band on their official website.

It seems like the corporate heads at Summit in charge of Eclipse have been making quite a few changes lately and Muse is not the only people to get the shaft. Recently Summit also fired Eclipse director Art Jones and replaced him with Nancy Richardson, the original editor for Twilight directed by Catherine Hardwicke. It seems that Summit feels that David Slade’s version of Eclipse is “very good” but that it needs a ’strong edit” Hmm, what does that mean exactly? David Slade is known for his darker more edgy movies and has even been tweeting on production stating that he needed to add “more EDWARD”. Sounds like David Slade still has a lot of work left to do before release in June. I am very intrigued about the finished product and i can’t wait to see how it all turns out!

How do you feel about no Muse in Eclipse? Do you think having Nancy Richardson will make Eclipse better or worse then New Moon? Share your opinions with us!