The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn To be two films?
Summit would really like this to go on as long as possible, wouldn’t they? A feature in variety states that the company are looking into the possibility of turning Breaking Dawn, the final book in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer, into two movies. Warners are, of course, doing the same thing with the Harry Potter franchise, but it all depends on the success of next year’s movie The Twilight Saga: Eclipse as to whether the fourth book will even be turned into a film.
Aside from whether the demand will still be there for the film(s), there is the content to consider. The fourth book contains material that is completely unfilmable, and if it was filmed, much of what happens would have to be massively rewritten (For those of you that aren’t familiar with it, a fair amount of the book is somewhat horrific, involving a demonic pregnancy with grotesque, harrowing and downright insane results).
There are scenes in there that the general public would find incredibly offensive and damaging to young fans of the Twilight series. There is talk that the story is to be reworked, and the second part of the finale is to set up a spin-off franchise. Either way, this is one project that is going to get a lot of scrutiny.