'Breaking Dawn' Producer Wyck Godfrey On Hiring Bill Condon: 'His Movies Are So Truthful'

'Breaking Dawn' Producer Wyck Godfrey On Hiring Bill Condon: 'His Movies Are So Truthful'



Sure, there has been a lot of exciting stuff that has happened since Bill Condon was signed on as the director of "Breaking Dawn," but that doesn't mean he has faded far from our thoughts.

Website Earth's Mightiest managed to snag an interview with "Twilight Saga" producer Wyck Godfrey and got him to talk about the choice of Bill — who is best known for his work on "Chicago" and "Dreamgirls" — to direct an angsty teenage vampire story, and his reasoning was enough to convince us.

Turns out Wyck and his partner, Marty Bowen, have been huge fans of Bill's work for a while, and have been trying to get him to work on one of their projects for some time. When they found out he was interested for "Breaking Dawn," they immediately pounced on the opportunity.

"There's a maturity to his filmmaking that his performances in his movies are so truthful and so real and yet also, with 'Dreamgirls,' you have a real kind of orchestration of images that is beautiful," Wyck said.

Whereas for us, Bill's recent work with musicals seemed like it would be a drawback, Wyck saw that as proof that Bill would be perfect for filming a movie like "Breaking Dawn."

"I think that theatrical and operatic about the visuals of ['Dreamgirls'] that you have to have in a fantasy film," Wyck said, adding, "I'm really excited to see how he works with the actors and really hopefully brings out the best performances we've seen yet from all of them."

Even though the first installment of "Breaking Dawn" isn't set to be released until November 18, 2011, Wyck said work on the next chapter of the series starts right after "Eclipse" premieres. He has already started having meetings with Bill and special effects supervisors, and hopes to make "Breaking Dawn" an even better spectacle than the previous three films.

He said that Summit has really pushed the envelope in "Eclipse" with the special effects, particularly in terms of how the wolves and vampires move. Its something he looks forward to sharing with fans and critics, especially the final battle.

"The final battle of 'Eclipse' kind of blows the socks off everything we've seen earlier in the series, because you finally have wolves interacting with humans and vampires in a way that's really sophisticated visual effects that we're doing in it," said Wyck. "Now we have to push the bar higher in 'Breaking Dawn' and that's what we’re doing now."

One thing he isn't worried about is translating some of the more gruesome and controversial material of "Breaking Dawn" into the film.

"There will be aspects of 'Breaking Dawn' that will certainly be more difficult than the same aspects of the other films," Wyck conceded. "You'll just launch into it, and it will be difficult, and we'll get 'em hopefully done the best way we can."