Has planning started on the “Breaking Dawn” movie?
The movie site TheWrap.com reported this week reported that Summit Entertainment has started planning the film adaptation of the fourth and final “Twilight” book in Stephenie Meyer’s extremely popular series.
Summit Entertainment spokesman Paul Pflug declined to confirm or deny the report, according to TheWrap.com.
Still, the site says that work on the “Breaking Dawn” film will start late spring 2010.
Filming is underway in Vancouver on “New Moon,” and the second film is scheduled for Nov. 20 release. The third adaptation, ”Eclipse,” has a tentative release date of June 2010. It seems logical that Summit would continue the momentum and try to get the film version of the fourth book out as soon as possible.
But Nicole Sperling over at Entertainment Weekly’s Hollywood Insider blog doubts that Summit is quite ready for the planning stages on “Breaking Dawn.”
Sperling cites “Twilight”/”New Moon” screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, who told the blog she is still working on her script for “Eclipse.”
“The most I’ve heard from Summit is ‘re-read it and start thinking about it,’” Rosenberg told Sperling.
Rosenberg said she hasn’t yet received one of the “manifestos” Meyer puts together before the screenwriter begins transforming one of the vampire romance books into a movie.
Last fall, at the Los Angeles junket for “Twilight,” Meyer wondered if making “Breaking Dawn” would even be possible. She said the “Breaking Dawn” character Nessie – and no, I’m not going to tell you who that is; I don’t want to spoil it for people who haven’t read it – will almost certainly have to be computer generated.
“If it were a given that every one of these (books) would be made, Book 4 without a doubt is the hardest thing to do. And there’s a really simple reason for that: You have a character in that that you almost have to do with CGI,” Meyer said last fall.
“And while CGI can do dragons and it can do almost anything in the whole world, the one thing that I’ve never seen is a completely realistic CGI human. So, that’s something that either groundbreaking technology will have to develop in the next couple of years or it will be impossible. One or the other.”
-BAM
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