December 1st, 2009
Breaking Dawn to be Broken Into Two Parts
Taking a cue from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (if you can call common sense a “cue”), Summit Entertainment has told Variety that they’re going to split Breaking Dawn, the fourth installment of the Twilight Saga, into two movies.
If you haven’t heard, New Moon made all the money in the world during the last two weeks. There is no more money anywhere because teenage girls stole and manipulated it out of their hardworking fathers and spent it all at movie theaters. Summit Entertainment executives are building swimming pools made out of unicorn bones because they don’t know how else to spend the money they have. Remember Scrooge McDuck and his huge vault full of gold coins? That’s child’s play compared to the people who own Summit.
One the set of Eclipse
But apparently there are still two hurdles to overcome. The first is whether or not Summit can afford to pay the higher salaries that the cast will naturally command. This was probably expected. If I was Robert Pattinson, I would tell Summit that if they wanted me to play Edward in another movie then they have to give me a third-world country. I would demand to be paid Venezuela for doing the 5th Twilight movie. With that said, it should be no problem for Summit to solve this problem. They will pay the actors large sums of money because they’re going to make even more money off these movies.
The second problem is getting New Moon director Chris Weitz on board. You may be thinking, “This is the Twilight franchise: they can get anyone they want to direct their movies.” That’s true. They could get Martin Scorsese to direct a Twilight movie because they could buy him out. Everyone has a price.
But they want Chris Weitz because he made New Moon with less than $50 million and the cast loves him. It seems like there isn’t actually a problem with this scenario. But there is. Weitz had planned on doing a smaller film called The Gardener which would also be made by Summit. But now that there is another Twilight movie to be made I’m guessing that The Gardener will be put on hold and Weitz will demand that every doorknob in his house be replaced with a mosquito fossilized in amber.
Meanwhile, director David Slade (30 Days of Night) is pushing on with Eclipse that is still set to be out June 20, 2010.
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