Breaking Dawn is the fourth installment in the insanely popular Twilight Saga, and like the other books in the series, it will be made into a film. Because of the length of the source material (756 pages), the movie will be divided into two parts, the first of which is slated for a release in November of 2011 and will be directed by Bill Condon (Dreamgirls, Kinsey). The script will be written by Melissa Rosenberg.
In an interview with The La Times, Rosenberg said, "On the fan site, on Facebook, all the comments are 'It has to be R rated! You have to show the childbirth! Gore and guts and sex!'... It's actually more interesting to not see it. You know, you can do childbirth without seeing childbirth ... It doesn't mean it's any less evocative of an experience."
In the book, the main character Bella looses her virginity, and gives a very bloody birth to a vampire/human hybrid baby that eats it's way out of the womb. A teenage werewolf then falls madly in love with this baby for...some reason.
In order to maintain a PG-13 rating, the filmmakers plan on toning down the graphic themes and avoiding showing any "R-rated" events on screen, but rather convey the ideas in a more veiled and discrete way. Some people are disappointed about this. They want as faithful of an adaptation as there can be (not to mention some entertaining sex and violence).
How do you think the film should be approached?
-MV
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