A Beginner’s Guide To Twilight

From writer's dream to all-consuming vamp franchise...



9. Breaking Dawn: The Movie

Very little is known about Breaking Dawn’s eventual cinematic incarnation other than nothing short of New Moon and Eclipse doing zero business at the box office will keep it from being made.

All we know at this point is that Robert Pattinson has implied that Summit are working on plans for the pic and that there's been no official greenlight yet.

But it sounds like the toughest of the books to adapt, mostly because A) like later Potter tomes, it’s massive (according to Meyer, it's “hard to imagine fitting it into 90 minutes”) and B) features a self-aware half-human/ half-vamp baby.

So what to do… Dodgy CG child? Major make-up job? Time will tell.

One option might be to do a Deathly Hallows and split the film into two, thus allowing more of the plot to breathe.

But given that the studio has usually compressed the books’ plots into each movie, we’re sure some slicing and dicing is more likely.

Another challenge for any director is the sheer scope of the thing, which plays like a greatest hits of Twilight’s plot to date – Jacob and the wolves are a big part of it, as are the Volturi.

Plus the Cullens recruit lots of vampires from around the world to argue the case for Renesmee’s survival, including Nahuel, a 150-year-old human/vamp hybrid, who proves that she’s not a threat. Looks like the effects budget will be stretched to breaking point…

So who could direct this mammoth finale?

Let’s look at possible contenders…

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    • imaginarium

      Jun 18th 2009, 11:34

      Sorry to nitpick...technically he didn't move to her high school...he was already there, she was the new one.. And much as I love Robert, I hope they don't change the story of New Moon a lot just to give him more screen time. I wish they hadn't changed it at all. I hate it when stories are compromised so that the studio can earn more money, in this case by attracting all the Robert fangirls; they're clearly scared that not as many people will go and see it if he's not in it as much.

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    • imaginarium

      Jun 18th 2009, 11:38

      Sorry to nitpick but...technically he didn't move to her high school...he was already there, she was the new one.. And much as I love Robert, I hope they don't change the New Moon plot too much, just to give him more screen time. I wish they hadn't planned to change it at all. I hate it when stories are compromised to earn the studio more money, in this case by attracting all the Robert fangirls again; they're clearly scared that not as many people will go and see it if he's not in it as much.

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    • imaginarium

      Jun 18th 2009, 11:40

      ..it said that didn't post the first time.

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