We’ve known this was coming, but now it’s confirmed. HR reports that Summit Entertainment is moving forward on making sequels to Twilight, based on the next three books in Stephanie Meyer’s vampire series.

The books in question are New Moon, Eclipse, and the recently published finale Breaking Dawn. Twilight screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg has already been brought in to work on scripts for New Moon and Eclipse. Breaking Dawn will have to wait.

Some had thought Summit might wait to see how the first movie performs before spending on the sequels, but with the out of control buzz building around this thing, it makes sense that they’d snap them up now before some other savvy studio managed to outbid them. Of course if Twilight somehow tanks, they’ll probably never get made, but now they own the rights and they’re ready to go if and when the first movie pulls in the huge initial box office everyone seems to be expecting.

The books all tell the love story of an average teenage girl named Bella and a vampire named Edward. Their fans are legion, and mostly female. I have so far managed to avoid being forced to read any of them, but the lovely ladies of the CB Forum call them emotion porn, and all seem to feel a little guilty over the way they end up slavering over them. What’s porn, emotional or otherwise, without a little guilt?