As a line of thousands snaked around plastic chains and offline-marketing tents, the living, breathing embodiments of Stephenie Meyer's imagination (as well as the passions of budding tweens and frustrated moms) said a quick "how do you do?" to a sizable number of the press corps at a nearby hotel. The cast of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 made its way to San Diego Comic-Con 2011.
Before Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Team Jacob came out, a
stream of brunettes arrived to giggle and say how wild it is that people
wait on line and get dressed up here in San Diego. Luckily I was
sitting next to a chick who confirmed that the second one on the left
was a Cullen sister. "Yes, that's Alice!"
A very young chap who I'm pretty sure was one of the "wolf pack" offered
that director Bill Condon is a "great dude." Nikki Reed said, "I never
much thought about vampires before this movie."
Summit Entertainment, a very smart media company, kept us waiting for
forty-five minutes longer before the big guns came out. They have the
rights to three young adult fantasy novels and they're hoping one will
pop and be their next big franchise.
The first contestant in the Meyer derby was a very nice, nervous young
woman named Veronica Roth who yapped about her Hunger
Games meets Priest-type book Divergent. The quite writerly-looking young man
Isaac Marion pitched his zombie tale Warm Bodies that director Jonathan Levine of The Wackness and
the (very good) upcoming cancer comedy 50/50 is
attached to direct. Lastly, Erin Morgenstern, an adorable and ebullient
Jewess told us about The Night Circus, which sounds
like it's really cashing in on that Dr. Parnassus craze.
After no inconsiderable delay, director Bill Condon
(Kinsey represent!), K-Stew, Sparkle Boy and
Shirtless Man appeared.
Pattinson looked a bit thin (you should eat something! besides necks!)
and the sides of his head were shaved in a very New Wave fashion. He
said filming in Brazil "was nice," though he said the paparazzi was a
tad on the aggressive side. "They'll just grab you," he
said.
When asked if they expect Breaking Dawn will truly
be the end of the Twilight Saga, B-Pats wondered
aloud "breakfast time?" Off Stewart's confused look, he explained "well, Twilight then Dawn, you
know. . . "
Condon offered that Meyer has made it evident that the
Bella-Edward-Jacob story is done, but perhaps not the greater WORLD of Twilight.
On set, trying to keep Bella's wedding gown secret from spies was tough,
Stewart says. "I had to wear a Volturi cloak!" Then she rambled about
how there's a part of her in all of her characters and she had to "let
the moments happen." Do they all take a class to learn how to talk like
this?
Lautner added that, for the first time, he can't pick just one favorite scene from this movie.
Bill Condon, who also made the remarkable Gods and
Monsters, agrees that The Twilight Saga
may not at first blush seem like it fits on his resume, but it, like all
his work, is about individuals finding themselves on the fringes of
society.
Soon thereafter, they split and headed across the street to Hall H.
Breaking Dawn Interviews from IGN.com:
