'Twilight: Breaking Dawn' may be broken in two movies
Moviegoers may get an extra chance to visit the world of "Twilight."
With the third installment, "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," nearly done, Summit Entertainment is prepping to adapt the series' fourth and final book. "Breaking Dawn," though, is weighty enough that the studio is contemplating splitting it into two films, according to Variety.
Thing is, Summit only contracted the lead actors, director Chris Weitz and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg for four films, and the agreement with series author Stephenie Meyer is also only for four films.
Are we worried? No. The box-office success of "Twilight" and "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" should help all involved see why an extra payday is worth the time.
More worrisome is "Breaking Dawn's" subject matter. Spoilers follow!
The book covers the marriage of human Bella and vampire Edward, and so features all the sex not allowed in the first three books. Then we get into spine-crunching fetuses, oral C-sections and a weird semi-pedophilia where one character falls in love with a newborn. Yes, romantic love. It's weird.
Will the fanbase follow along? It's easy to compare "Breaking Dawn" to "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," which will also be split into two movies. "Hallows," though, is relatively tame as far as sex and gore go, and so was easy to film without compromising the series' MPAA ratings.
"Breaking Dawn," unless it's toned way down, would easily flirt with R rating territory.
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omg!!! who cares!!!!!!! who cares if it'll get an rated R!! hell i'm old enough to see it !!!! hahahahahaha.... seriously make the ******* !!
If they split it into two movies, then only the first one could need a R rating (but will never get). I suspect they would split it right after Nessie is born, with Bella's transformation ongoing and Jacob first look at Nessie. So all the human/vampire sex and most of the bloody stuff would be in part 1 and they wouldn't have to introduce the consequences of imprinting and Bella as a vampire and the difficulty of CGI Nessie in the first part. Also a good cliffhanger.
Although for part 2, I'm pretty interested to see if they show a 1-2 year old looking child killing deers with it's own hands/teeth and drinking their blood...
it's working for harry potter, so why not twilight?
I am sure that they will make two movies. It will break at the part of Nessie's birth and pick up as Bella transforms from Human to Vampire. Also, I don't think they will use the same child to play Nessie. As far as a child killing and drinking deer blood, it will probably be a very slight 5-6 year old. Remember people, Nessie grows fast every day from the time she is born. Bella sees her as a newborn and doesn't recognize her after the transformation because she looks to be about 4-6 months old 3 days later.
First off none of the books are "tame" enough for little girls to be reading. That is on their parents though. The books focus on her passion, how attracted she is to his beautiful body, and in Eclipse she is always describing how "big" Jake is. As far as Breaking Dawn is concerned there are a few things to take into consideration. One, they are married when they have sex and she gets pregnant. I know we are not used to that with everyone on network television doing whatever they want with whoever they want. Second they could do whatever they wanted with the movies at this point because if you are a fan you dont care you are going to go see the movie regardless.
@Lisa:
No, it's clearly stated that Nessie was three months old and looking like a big one year old or small two year old shortly before they were hunting and the Irina thing happened. But since they can animate roller skating babies for TV, a hunting 2 year old shouldn't be to hard to animate for the big screen. Just the killing and blood drinking could be a problem... if they wanna stay true to the source, which I'm sure they won't in this case. Showing her running super fast and jumping 15 feet up in the air should be enough to explain the trigger for Irina's mistake on the big screen.
Please do make it "R" and give us what we've been waiting for...
I agree they could most definitely make it rated R (sure they wont tho) but I hope they make it just 1 long movie. I would rather sit in a theater for 3 hours then wait six months (or whatever) for a part 2, or give more money to the theaters who charge way too much now a days!! ;-)
ya know i am a serious twilight fan and if i dont go see breaking dawn i willcomit suicide (not realy) but what dose it freakin matter!!!!!im going to see it no matter what and im only 12 so if they wont let me get into that movie then we WILL see who gets to see that movie and who dosent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
o and im with the first comment except i am way not old enough to go see it if its rated R