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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 10:33AM 'Twilight' Author Sees Two Movies for Fourth Book
Slowly but surely, I'm navigating my way through
Twilight, the young adult novel that has
spawned one of the year's most anticipated movies for the teenage crowd.
Normally, I don't bother reading the books - because I'm not reviewing the
books, after all - but they sent it out to me months ahead of time, so I figured
I'd return the favor.
Will I read all of the books in the vampire series? I
guess if they send me all of them, sure. And if they do, I apparently ought to block out a
significant amount of time for the fourth and final book.
Stephanie Meyer, the author of the quadrilogy,
says that Breaking Dawn might be too big for one movie, kind of like -
OK, exactly like - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. According to
Cinema Blend, Meyer believes the last book
should be at least two movies.
“[Breaking
Dawn] is actually broken up into book one, book two and book three, and the
end of book two is kind of the exact middle of the story," says the author. "It
really feels like the clearest place to stop the action, but I’m not a movie
person, I don’t know. I just think it’s too long for one movie.”
Now, slow your roll, teenage vampires. The first movie
needs to be an unqualified smash before we start thinking about making two
movies out of one book three movies down the line. I'm fairly certain
Twilight will make money, but will it continue to be successful when the
sequels come out?
True, this doesn't have the budgetary concerns of a
Golden Compass or a Lemony Snicket or even a Narnia (which may
not go the distance, either), but I think we need to see some performance before
we lay out plans for the rest of the franchise.
Twilight will arrive in theaters on
December 12th.
Reader Comments (4)
Hey there.
BREAKING DAWN MUST NOT BE TWO MOVIES. FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, PLEASE GOD, NO. No no no no no.
GET THIS IN YOUR HEAD, STEPHENIE MEYER. "TWILIGHT" IS NOT AND NEVER WILL BE AS AMAZING AS HARRY POTTER. YOU ARE NOT J.K. ROWLING. SO STFU AND STFD.
And I actually enjoy the first book...
Oh yes, Colin. You spelled her name wrong in the article. "StephEnie", not "StephAnie" :)
Thank you for the correction.
I would like to comment that you need to make a fifth book explaning what happems to renesme as she get s older and her and jacob and bella and edward
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