A wild rumour is coming out of the Summit camp that they are considering spinning off the Twilight franchise and adapting The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner into a feature film.
There’s already a rumor going around about a big screen adaptation of the Twilight novella The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner in the works at Summit. What’s Playing is reporting that an insider emailed, “It goes without saying Summit want to continue this franchise… Tanner is the one they’re looking at post-Breaking Dawn… It’s too early to talk casting, and everything we’re hearing is just speculation or off a wish list, but I don’t believe they plan on using the original actress, Jodelle Ferland, for the spin-off film.
Not like the fans of this series have any surprises left, but this side story that was made into a novella delves into the background of the baby vampire who wants to defect from Victoria’s Army but gets murdered by the Volturi anyways.
With Summit double dipping that epilogue of a fourth book into two films its pretty clear that they are not afraid of beating the crap out of this dead horse until its a bleeding mess of pulp. There’s money in that pulp, I swear. Its under that other pulp over there. Go look.
Twilight has already run its course and the side story with The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner just tapping that vein before they finish it all off, they are desperate for another source of income.
There are some really interesting concepts presented in Twilight that have taken a back seat to emo teen romance. If they are going to continue this franchise, I would prefer that they at least step up the supernatural and lay off the romance.
