Speaking to the LA Times, producer Wyck Godfrey says that production on “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn” the fourth installment of the series is set to go ahead this fall in Vancouver, but that creatively, there are still some decisions to be made.
First and foremost, the script by Melissa Rosenberg is still being written and she has her work cut out for her. “Breaking Dawn” is the longest novel in the series (750 pages of emo blood sucking fun) and also the most contentious among fans. The plot revolves around “a recently graduated 19-year-old Bella giving birth to a half-human/half-vamp daughter named Renesmee, who grows much faster than the average mortal child and who possesses a unique way of communicating with those around her, clearly inherited from Dad’s side of the family.” Yawn.
The accelerated aging of Renesmee may be solved via heavy special effects, but what route it will go remains to be seen. “I keep having visions of ‘[The Curious Case of] Benjamin Button’ in my head,” Godfrey said. “It’s certainly going to be visual effects in some capacity along with an actor. I wouldn’t be surprised if it ends up being a full CG creation, but it also may be a human shot on a soundstage that then is used to shrink down. I don’t know. We need a director. When we get a director, that director will need to come with a point of view of how they want to tackle it.”
Anyway, until the script is turned in whether or not the behemoth book will be turned into one or two films is yet to be decided. “The issue [of whether there will be one or two movies] is not going to be resolved until we get the full treatment and see whether it’s organic. If it’s not organic, I don’t think it will be done, and if it is, it will be. It really has to do with how much level of detail from the books there is, with all of these new vampires that appear in ‘Breaking Dawn,’ the whole section about Jacob… It’s a very long single movie if it does become a single movie,” says Godfrey. Whatever. Our guess is that Summit is going to want to milk this thing for all its worth and that two films is probably most likely and has been the rumor for the past little while.
Godfrey goes on to confirm that Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner have all signed on and says not to hold your breath on Chris Weitz returning behind the camera. As you might recall, Weitz said last year that he wasn’t interested in directing another entry in the series and will be doing the smaller scale, indie film “The Gardener” next.
The third entry in the series, “Twilight Saga: Eclipse” opens on June 30th.
From that plot desription, this one will probably be the most hilariously awful of the series. I look forward to downloading it for free when it comes out.