Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson in David Slade's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
The Twilight Saga screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg has been quoted as saying that "we're working on it to be as intense as it is in the book." (Via eonline.com.)
"It," of course, is Renesmee's birth sequence, during which Bella suffers and bleeds and suffers some more and bleeds buckets more so as to give birth to a daughter that is part human, part vampire in Stephenie Meyer's The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.
"I don't think it's about the amount of blood you show," Rosenberg added. "It's about the intensity of it. It's on their faces. It's all from Bella's point of view when you're seeing what's going [on]. It should feel visceral. I think it's going to be pretty intense."
Kristen Stewart will play Renesmee's nearly-broken-to-smithereens mother, Robert Pattinson the concerned father, Taylor Lautner the imprinting "protector" and potential future boyfriend.
Come to think of it, considering how fast Renesmee grows in the novel, it shouldn't take very long for the werewolf to pair up with the human-vampire freak — except that there won't be The Twilight Saga: High Noon for the Jacob-Renesmee romance to blossom.
Now, everyone talks about the birth scene, even though I believe that for a director and/or screenwriter the most difficult part of the Breaking Dawn adaptation will be the last section of the book — the extended confrontation between good and bad vampires, which ends (spoilers ahead) rather anticlimactically.
Bill Condon will be directing Breaking Dawn, to be split into two parts. I'd be very surprised if Part I doesn't end à la Avatar, with a closeup of Bella's crimson eyes after the transformation has taken place following Renesmee's birth.
According to the eonline.com report, Rosenberg has been in Baton Rouge working with Condon on rewrites.
Photo: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Kimberley French / Summit Entertainment)
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I didn't mind the first movie, but things went to hell pretty fast – and the last one was intolerable! I can only imagine R.Pattinson is ruing the day he signed up for this franchise. Hopefully he won't have to spend years trying to prove himself a better actor than the role that made him famous.
This movie is going to be pure and utter crap because the book is. Bill Condon cannot save what Stephanie Meyers wrote. That birth scene was horrendous. Edward mutilates Bella's womb to get the baby out. I wouldn't call him a concerned father. He tries to get Bella to abort, when that doesn't work he offers to let her have sex with Jacob so she can have kids. It's just mind boggling why Stephanie Meyers wrote such a bad ending. I laugh when I see how many children book awards this has won.
All of Twilight seems to be in Louisiana. Kristen is filming On the Road in NOLA. Kellan was also in NOLA. Now Melissa and Bill are in Baton Rouge. Forget L.A. Louisiana is the new place for celebrity sitings.
It should be intense ;)
I would imagine they would have to change the "battle scene" quite a bit. I know I wasn't the only fan incredibly disappointed by the anti-climactic final "battle" of Breaking Dawn. The build up to it was great and the post "battle" scenes should play very well on-screen. So all they really need to do get imaginative and have some serious action scenes instead the strictly dialogue-driven scene.