“The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn" Production and Casting Updates

It's official! “THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN” production has been greenlit and I now have the latest free auditions information. Breaking Dawn will be made into two films shot back-to-back starting in November, 2010. The filming locations and exact dates for the acting auditions have not been confirmed.

The Breaking Dawn Director has yet to be officially announced, however sources say that Gus Van Sant has signed on. Van Sant's directing schedule fits perfectly, as he will wrap filming on "Restless" (which is being produced by Bryce Dallas Howard and currently shooting in Portland until January 3rd, 2010) before Breaking Dawn I goes into production, and he is not set to film anything else until 2011 - after Breaking Dawn II would wrap production.

A new production company, Sunswept Entertainment, has been brought on board for Breaking Dawn. Sunswept Entertainment was created by Karen Rosenfelt, who is the daughter of former MGM Chairman & CEO Frank Edward Rosenfelt. Karen Rosenfelt served as Producer on both "Twilight" and on “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse". She did not work on "New Moon", but is producing "Breaking Dawn through her Sunswept Entertainment banner.

There will likely be massive acting auditions and a talent search for the role of Renesmee Cullen, the half-vampire, half-human daughter of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, just as there was through Actorcast for the roles of Seth and Leah Clearwater in "Eclipse". Many other new roles are also to be cast, as there are a large number of additional vampire characters in Breaking Dawn.

See the post titled Photo and Resume Information regarding how to submit for Breaking Dawn acting auditions.

Submit photos and resumes to Breaking Dawn Casting Directors by mail only.
No phone calls or personal drop-offs .

Breaking Dawn Principal Actor Casting Director (Los Angeles, CA):

I will post the new Creaking Dawn Casting Director's info as soon as the actual acting auditions casting process begins, due to the fact that far too many people ignore what I say and send in their photos and resumes before they are actually accepting submissions.

Breaking Dawn Extras Casting:

TBA

Production Companies:

Do NOT send photos and resumes to the production companies (they will most likely end up in the trash can), they do not cast the films. They hire casting directors who sort through the thousands of submissions and call in talent for the film auditions.

Summit Entertainment LLC
1630 Stewart Street
Suite 120
Santa Monica, CA 90404

Sunswept Entertainment
124 S. Lasky Drive
1st Floor
Beverly Hills, CA 90212

Imprint Entertainment
100 Universal City Plaza
Bungalow 7152
Universal City CA 91608

Producers:

Karen Rosenfelt
Wyck Godfrey
Patrick Wachsberger
Robert Friedman
Erik Feig

Writer:

Melissa Rosenberg

Cast:

Robert Pattinson - (Confirmed)
Kristen Stewart - (Confirmed)
Taylor Lautner - (Confirmed)

Story:

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, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation , loss, and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the date of two tribes hangs. Now Bella has made her decision; a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating and unfathomable consequences.