The "man behind American Pie and About a Boy wasn't the obvious choice to take on The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the second book in Stephenie Meyer's blockbuster teen vampire romance series." The Hollywood Reporter observed

How Chris Weitz fared will ultimately be determined by filmgoers when the movie is released November 20, but in an interview with THR, Weitz said his interactions with Meyer were frequent, noting that "we've had a real good collaboration. Crucially, she approved me as director, and she didn't have to. We had some discussions that were very important--my convincing her that I didn't want to take her baby and run away with it, or tell a story that was counter to the spirit of what she was trying to tell. I see myself, in the last few movies I've done, as adapting literary properties into film, so that's how I treated this one. We got along like a house on fire."