Is Bill Condon About To Sink Fangs Into 'Twilight' Saga's Two Final Segments?

Mike Fleming of http://www.deadline.com/ reports that Bill Condon has emerged as the number one choice to direct the final two installments of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, I’m told. Summit Entertainment hasn’t signed him, but I’m told that after several strong meetings, they are negotiating. Condon was among a list of A-list directors approved by Summit and Twilight author Stephenie Meyer. That list included Gus Van Sant, Sofia Coppola and Fernando Meirelles. Shooting will begin in the fall, and I heard the plan is to shoot two films back to back.

Having gone through much-publicised directorial choices for New Moon and Eclipse, this is nothing new to Twi-hards. However, I must say was a bit surprised by this choice. All I can think of is seeing singing and dancing vampires and werewolves, of course that is silly except if Summit is thinking of adapting it into a play/musical at some point in the future-don't laugh, would not dismiss it too quickly.

Bill Condon is credited with both the writing and directing of Dreamgirls, which went on to win the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Jennifer Hudson so this could mean higher callibre directing and someone who is in tune (no pun intended, well maybe) with the screenplay. Regardless of who directs the final installment of the Twilight Saga, we will still go see it...a few times.

Fun fact - Hinton Battle who starred in Dreamgirls was also in the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer 'Once More With Feeling' so there is a vampire connection after all :) Speaking of Buffy, Joss Whedon should have been considered 'grr, argh', now that would have been interesting...