It's Bella's Wedding Day in a New 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn' Image

Thursday, 01 September 2011 09:55 Written by Jordan DeSaulnier

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It's Bella's Wedding Day in a New 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn' Image

Whoa, suddenly it's September and we're not only approaching the Fall, but more importantly for fans of Stephenie Meyer's crazy-popular novels and their film adaptations, as The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 is less than three months from packing cinemas from sea to shining sea. That's right, the penultimate installment of the Twilight series is on the cusp of becoming a consuming pop-cultural presence, as Summit Entertainment will no doubt be ramping up the marketing effort in the near future. In order to prime the pump, so to speak, we have a brand new image of Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan preparing for her wedding to Edward Cullen, though Robert Pattinson is obviously not present, since it's bad luck for the groom to see his bride before the wedding, regardless of vampiric tendencies. Instead, Bella's parents, played by Billy Burke and Sarah Clarke, look at their daughter with barely-contained emotion.

This image made its debut over at DigitalSpy.

This is a completely honest and non-pejorative question from someone who hasn't seen the Twilight films but doesn't live in a cave on Mars, so is more than familiar with the overall story but not all the details: Do Bella's parents know that Edward is a vampire? Not that it would necessarily make a big difference, since he's not one of those horrific vampires who bursts into flames when exposed to sunlight, but if (A) I had a daughter and (B) she were getting married to a vampire, I'd still want to know.

Oscar-winning screenwriter Bill Condon, who previously wrote and directed Gods and Monsters, Dreamgirls, and Kinsey is the final director to join the series, following Catherine Hardwicke, Chris Weitz, and David Slade. As has been the case for each one of the films, Melissa Rosenberg adapted Meyer's novel into screenplay form. The cast includes familiar franchises such as Taylor Lautner, Dakota Fanning, Anna Kendrick, Michael Sheen, Peter Facinelli, Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene, and Jackson Rathbone.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 is set to hit theaters on November 18th this year, followed by Part 2 on November 16, 2012.