File this one under YES, WE ALL THOUGHT IT WOULD HAPPEN ANYWAY… Summit Entertainment has announced today that the plot of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn will indeed be broken up and spread across multiple films{
No, that bit really isn’t true, but Breaking Dawn *will *split into two movies, just as everyone has been predicting for months now. We just couldn’t dredge up enough willpower to report it straight.
Still, it will mean that the fourth novel in Stephenie Meyer’s vampire series should get the full-on treatment it so clearly deserves, what with the utterly bonkers plot about Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson)’s marriage and, more specifically, the birth of their child, Renesmee. An event which, based on what we’ve read, owes more to the visceral horror of Alien than your average Mills & Boon tale of romance.
With their contracts all squared away (the big sticking point was the fact that Stewart, Pattinson and one-man lady magnet Taylor Lautner’s original deals called for four films, and adding another assignment meant renegotiating their pay packets), Condon and Summit can get to work on the films, likely to be shot back-to-back for a planned release of November 18, 2011 for the first entry, followed some time in 2012 by the second.
Theories that Breaking Dawn II: Electric Sparkleoo will bring about the end of the world as “predicted” by the Mayan Calendar are, of course, entirely plausible.