While out promoting her role in The Yellow Handkerchief, a romantic drama filmed prior to the Twilight movies, Kristen Stewart was – of course – asked about the status of the fourth film of the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn. Just days prior to the release of the second film of the franchise, New Moon, the internet was abuzz with speculation Breaking Dawn would be split into two movies (similar to what Warner Bros did with the last book of the Harry Potter series). But Summit Entertainment hasn’t confirmed or denied anything to do with Breaking Dawn, not even when they might send the film (or films) into production.
Whatever the studio decides, there’s no denying Breaking Dawn is going to be the most CG-intense film of the series, with one of the lead characters in the book practically begging to be completely CG. In fact, the introduction of this character in the fourth book left a lot of fans questioning whether it would be possible to actually bring Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn to the big screen. That, and the fact the book is much more adult in tone than its three predecessors, makes Breaking Dawn the most difficult of the batch to adapt for the screen.
Stewart said she’s expecting Breaking Dawn to start filming sometime this year. “That, probably November, but I don’t know if it’s going to be one or two.”
Part of the hold up in declaring a two-part Breaking Dawn may have to do with the actors’ contracts. Stewart’s not sure if she’s signed up for one or two more films. “I don’t know, actually,” admitted Stewart. “I can’t imagine that they wouldn’t want [two]. The story so completely warrants two films and it would suck to have to… It would be really disappointing to have to be able to just go, ‘Okay, we have to lose this sequence and this scene and this sequence and this scene.’ So I would like to do two movies but I really, to be perfectly honest, don’t know what they’re going to do.”