We first heard that The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn would film in Louisiana and Vancouver from our interview with producer Wyck Godfrey. Today, one of the stars of franchise, Nikki Reed, told Hollywood Life she will start filming in “just over a week.” We have confirmed through two sources that the production is currently building sets in the Raleigh Studios at the Celtic Media Centre in Baton Rouge, including Edward’s house. We’ve been told the interior scenes will be shot in Louisiana, while the exteriors will presumably be shot in Vancouver.
Our sources also tell us that Breaking Dawn is not the only movie shooting at Raleigh Studios (we were told the studio is very impressive), as Universal is using the studio for Battleship, and Sony apparently just did some reshoots on Battle: Los Angeles there.
Hit the jump for more on Twilight: Breaking Dawn, including a recap of the new cast/crew that are joining the franchise in its final chapter.
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, and the rest of the Twilight gang will be joined by the following new cast members:
- Rami Malek as Benjamin
- Mackenzie Foy as Renesmee
- Maggie Grace as Irina
- MyAnna Buring, Casey LaBow, Christian Cmargo, and Mia Maestro as four more members of the Denali coven
Director Bill Condon has recruited some impressive additions to the crew for Breaking Dawn, including:
- Cinematographer Guillermo Navarro (Pan’s Labyrinth)
- Costume designer Michael Wilkinson (300, Watchmen)
- Makeup designer Jean Black (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
- Production designer and frequent Condon collaborator Richard Sherman (Kinsey)
- Visual effects supervisor John Bruno (Avatar)
Breaking Dawn will be broken into two parts: Part I hits theaters on November 18th, 2011, Part II drops a year later on November 16th, 2012.
Here’s the synopsis for Stephenie Meyer’s book:
When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?
To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs.
Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella’s life–first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse–seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed… forever?
The astonishing, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions. [Amazon]
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These fucking BREAKING DAWN headlines elicit a giddy double take every time I glance over them because I desperately mistake them for a crumb of BREAKING BAD season IV news! ::Charlie Brown “Christmas Time Is Here”::
it is cool. i like edward and jacob
Can’t wait for Breaking Dawn to be released, hate that it is taking so long.
i hate that it is gunna take 2 years to see the ending of this series….kinda ridiculous if you ask me…..if i didnt enjoy this series so much id be realllllly pissed!
Edward has a house?
like his house house
or like where edward and bella live?
New Song Breaking Dawn (In Our Reach). Please have a listen!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXoHfFPk7oc
United states has become so sexist, United States violates the rights of women around the world?
I am Latina, I do not speak English
forgiving. Use translator.
Formerly the village women’s liberation. Before respected intelligent women today make fun of them.
The country of freedom has become the country most sexist of all. Now they are even more sexist than here in Latin America.
Everyone thought that American men were good and faithful BUT ALL WE ARE ADVISED THAT SINCE THE WORST. Example: Before Brad Pitt was a role model for me, but since he deceived his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston fell off my pedestal and all blond hypocrites. They are the most sexist, but the propaganda that they are the best.
What do you appreciate America?
Feminine beauty and feelings more or less
Just as Angelina Jolie.
But that too was done in the Middle Ages, only appreciated women for their beauty and nothing else. What’s twilight?
America is the cradle of the most sexist saga of the world. A woman who is beautiful as Bella Swan, has good feelings and stupid. What is appreciated in the Middle Ages.
Please, that fell to the middle ages.
Men of the Middle Ages only admired pretty women of good feelings and having no brain.
And you Americans returned to the Middle Ages. Intelligent and decent women should have at least the same respect as the most beautiful.
I am Latina, I do not speak English
forgiving. Use translator.
Sexism? What in the hell does that have to do with the article? Let me read again the article again, that’s right, this article is about part of Breaking Dawn being filmed in Louisiana. You just posted a lot of useless rambling and nonsense. I seriously doubt that any person could take you seriously. If you don’t like the series, leave it alone, no one forced you to read, and you completely missed the entire point of the story. Sexism, give me a freakin’ break. Here’s one more piece of advice, don’t look at celebrities for role models in romance, they are about the worst examples you could follow.
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