'Twilight' producer Wyck Godfrey discusses choice of Bill Condon for 'Breaking Dawn'

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Wyck Godfrey, a fan-favorite producer thanks to his enthusiasm and nurturing personality, has recently done an interview with Earth's Mightiest's Ed Gross where he talked about recent developments seen in the Twilight world with The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.
Particularly, Godfrey recounted the pursuit he and fellow filmmakers went through to obtain the film's director Bill Condon.

The truth is, I have loved all of Bill’s movies, and my partners and I have always chased him for our projects, and when we found out that he was interested in Twilight . . . we really chased him down, and he got more and more interested . . . For me, there’s a maturity to his filmmaking, and his performances in his movies are so truthful and real.

Godfrey went on to issue his hopes that Condon will be able to bring some of his Dreamgirls-esque theatrical flavor to Breaking Dawn as it is a must-have with fantasy films.
In addition, Godfrey spoke up about where the pre-production phase is at with the film, saying "We launch right into Breaking Dawn when Eclipse comes out, so already we’re doing a lot of meetings with Bill and sort of meeting with visual effects supervisors. My hope is that when you see Eclipse, you’ll see the huge strides we’ve taken . . . you finally have wolves really interacting with humans and vampires in a way that’s got very sophisticated visual effects . .. now we have to push the bar higher on Breaking Dawn."
It seems that estimations pointing to a fall shooting date are indeed accurate, then.
Finally, Godfrey talked about his anticipations for the film in the way of difficulty, and he sounded very positive and optimistic about the fact that the Twilight production team could handle the task of making Breaking Dawn come together well.
Head over and listen to the full interview for more!