You can’t really blame Summit Entertainment can you? The company started off as a pretty much unheard of name when they began making the Twilight series and now they have arguably the biggest teenage audience for any movie currently in production (except maybe Potter?), possibly ever! The Twilight franchise stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner as a vampire, a human and a werewolf respectively. Twilight: Eclipse is released soon so it’s no wonder they’ve put this news out now to get us ready for the final installment(s).
Through an official press release while we were all sleeping last night, Summit announced that the final book by Stephanie Meyer would indeed be split into two films to milk their cow for as long as is humanly possible! They also announce that Bill Condon will be directing both movies.
Check out the full press release below.
SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN
TO BE RELEASED AS TWO SEPARATE FILMSFirst Film to Arrive in Theatres November 18, 2011
Los Angeles, CA, June 10, 2010 – Summit Entertainment confirmed today that THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN will be released as two separate films with the first of the two slated to be released in theatres on November 18, 2011. Academy Award® winner Bill Condon will direct both films starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner along with Billy Burke as Charlie Swan as well as returning members of the Cullen Family including Peter Facinelli as Carlisle, Elizabeth Reaser as Esme, Jackson Rathbone as Jasper, Nikki Reed as Rosalie, Ashley Greene as Alice and Kellan Lutz as Emmett.
The project, based on the fourth novel in author Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series, is currently being written by Melissa Rosenberg with Wyck Godfrey, Karen Rosenfelt and Stephenie Meyer producing. The TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN will start production in the Fall.
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions.
The third film in the franchise, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE is due in theaters on June 30, 2010.
