Academy Award winner Bill Condon has been confirmed by Summit Entertainment as the director of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, based on the fourth novel in Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series. Melissa Rosenberg, who adapted the three previous books for the screen, is currently writing the screenplay.
Summit plans to break the fourth novel’s story into two movies, the first including Bella’s wedding, pregnancy, and delivery, and the second covers her transformation into a vampire and her child’s growth. Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner are set to return. Filming will likely begin this November.
Condon wrote and directed the films Dreamgirls, Kinsey, and Gods and Monsters, which won him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was also nominated for another Academy Award for his screenplay for the movie Chicago. Condon’s current project, the indie movie Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, written by Slumdog Millionaire‘s Simon Beaufoy, has been put on hold until he is finished with Breaking Dawn. His planned Richard Prior bio-pic has also been put on hold indefinitely.
The upcoming third film in the Twilight series, Eclipse, comes out on June 30, 2010.
